Colin Narver

Experienced and award-winning product designer, manager and team leader with a demonstrated history of building teams and shipping products. Read my resume or see a detailed breakdown of my experience here.

Selected writings on design leadership and design awards:

• Building the App Store for the enterprise - A one year retrospective on designing the Red Hat Marketplace

  • The Red Hat Marketplace has won eight design awards since launching in Fall of 2020:

    • Webby Awards

      https://zcu.io/F8jK

      • 2022 Honoree: Apps and Software - Software Services & Platforms E-Commerce

    • Indigo Design Awards

      https://www.indigoawards.com/winners

      • Gold: UX, Interface & Navigation

      • Silver: Animation & Illustration for Websites

    • European Product Design Awards

      https://www.productdesignaward.eu/winners/epda/2021/

      • Winner: Product User Interface Design

    • Stratus Awards

      https://www.bintelligence.com/blog/2021/10/5/60-cloud-computing-companies-win-2021-stratus-awards-for-cloud-computing

      • Winner: Cloud Disruptor

    • w3 Awards

      https://www.w3award.com/winners/gallery/

      https://www.w3award.com/winners/list/view/?event=1046&award=2&_p=9

      • Silver: General Websites, Computer/IT

    • IF Design Awards

      https://ifdesign.com/en/

      • 2022 Winner: User Interface: Interfaces for digital media

      • 2022 Winner: User Experience: Product UX

• My secret weapon for helping executives understand the value of design - Demonstrating value through the power of “playbacks” and IBM Design Thinking

• I’ve spent half this year hiring designers. Here’s what I discovered. - Seven key differentiators of exceptional designers

• Let yourself be broken. - Failure is scary. When we have the courage to be receptive to it, we can transform our lives and our businesses.

• Empathy is not a soft skill. It’s a superpower. - Understanding your users and their needs is not a ‘nice to have’. It’s a strategic imperative in software design.