Patrick Sobrak-Seaton
Product Designer & Design Engineer
Berlin, Germany · German & US citizen · patrick@sobrak-seaton.com · sobrak-seaton.com · linkedin.com/in/sobrakseaton
Summary
Product designer and design engineer in Berlin. At UP42, I lead UP42 Douglas, a tokenized, accessible design system and component library, and design the satellite tasking experience for a geospatial data platform. Before that, I was the founding designer at Liberate Science, an open-science startup backed by the Shuttleworth Foundation and Mozilla.
Experience
UP42 GmbH
Senior Product Designer & Design Engineer March 2022 – Present Berlin, Germany
Geospatial platform for satellite data and analytics.
- UP42 Douglas: lead the creation and adoption of a tokenized, accessible design system and component library shared by design and engineering across the organization.
- Satellite tasking: design the experience for requesting satellite captures of a specific place and time, so customers can scale and automate their geospatial workflows.
- Take features from low-fidelity concepts to production in sprint-based product teams, working closely with engineering.
Liberate Science GmbH
Product Designer December 2019 – March 2022 Berlin, Germany
Open-science startup funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation and supported by Mozilla.
- Hypergraph: as founding designer, designed a peer-to-peer desktop app for sharing and tracking research, built on the Hypercore Protocol.
- ResearchEquals: designed a web platform for sharing research as you go, the result of a pivot informed by UX research.
ariadne an der spree GmbH
Visual Designer August 2017 – December 2019 Berlin, Germany
Antifolio
Freelance Designer June 2015 – December 2019 San Francisco Bay Area
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Media Operations December 2015 – March 2017 Palo Alto, CA
Launch Brigade
Visual Designer October 2014 – November 2015 Santa Cruz, CA
Education
Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
Industrial and Product Design BA (Partial) 2018 – 2019
San Jose State University
Animation/Illustration BFA (Partial) 2012 – 2014
De Anza College
Art & Design 2011 – 2012
Skills
- Design: product design, UX research, visual design, cross-platform design (desktop and web), web design, print and layout, branding, illustration
- Design systems: design tokens, accessible component libraries, accessibility, design and engineering collaboration
Languages
English (Native) · German (B2)