Design / Josh Sender

Josh Sender

Josh Sender is an award-winning web and brand designer, having worked on design teams in New York, DC and Baltimore. He's currently helping lead design at Fastspot, where, in the last two years alone, his projects have won 3 Webby awards.

Case studies available upon request.

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Current

January 2022 - Present
Associate Design Director, Fastspot
Helping lead the design team at Fastspot - designing websites and design systems for cultural institutions, higher education, and multinational corporations. Working on defining and creating processes, mentoring this incredible team, and winning awards.

Past

January 2023 - May 2024
Adjunct Professor, Maryland Institute College of Art
Teaching Interaction Design (Figma, prototyping, texture of the web and of screens, ux, etc) and sometimes we talk about art and culture.

May 2021 - January 2022
UX Design Director, Friendly Design Co.
Shaping the web process – discovery sessions, IA, wireframes, determining what to build and how to build it, building out the design system, QA, and occasionally re-branding.

February 2020 - May 2021
Senior Visual Designer, Fjord (part of Accenture Song)
Small part of a big company. Doing product & interaction & service design - designing things for a big, bloated, and hopefully more thoughtful and empathetic federal government. Just a designer, standing in front of a government, asking it to love working people. During my time at Fjord, I almost exclusively worked as a Product Designer on the Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid project.

September 2018 - February 2020
Senior Designer, Friendly Design Co.
I was a small part of a small team collaborating with non-profit, education, arts, and political organizations who look to repair our world and strengthen our communities. Working with a small, but mighty, team collaborating with progressive organizations on their brands and websites.

November 2017 - September 2018
Senior Designer, idfive
Designing websites, wayfinding, and branding for clients that do good (non-profits & higher education).

June 2016 - May 2017
Digital Designer, Black & Black Creative
Led the design, wireframing, and prototyping on over a dozen client websites, and explored new branding initiatives for a few. Clients mostly sat comfortably under the "luxury fashion" label, but occasionally extended to digital startups.

June 2014 - November 2014
Digital Designer, Hello Cheri
Hello Cheri was an affordable adult toy e-commerce startup based in New York. As the only designer on a small startup team, I designed the digital assets, communications, expanded the brand’s visual language, and refined the existing e-commerce website.

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