Josh
BARTON

At Apple I work across web, presentation, and instructional design, with AI as the primary execution layer. A web design foundation going back to 2008 keeps the output honest: no AI slop, no hallucinations, no vanity metrics. Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini handle the intense development while I focus on functionality, correctness, and quality.

As the team's go-to for UX and AI, I keep a human designer in control at every step: frame the audience, direct the model, review by hand, ship the asset plus the reusable system behind it. Deliverables below are generalized to protect confidential detail.

Content Designer III on PayPal's Developer Platform Engineering team, bridging design and development for the developer ecosystem.

The core build: internal SharePoint site design using custom, non-standard widgets that make a SharePoint page look and feel like a modern responsive website. Around it: executive presentations, All Hands event branding, and design system upkeep under Pentagram's brand refresh.

Designed the UI for the PraxisLearning website: a learning-journeys platform that turns training events into daily practice. The design carries my decade-plus of LMS and e-learning domain knowledge into the brand, narrative, and layout decisions, from the homepage story through the demo funnel.

Seven years of product design across the Litmos LMS on web, iOS, and Android. Two flagship case studies below, plus the course tile system that themed the entire training catalog.

The navigation problem. Admins needed special training just to find features; key functions were buried 3 to 9 clicks deep, split across separate Admin and Learner views. I led the redesign of a unified meganav, grounded in persona interviews, card sorting, and usage analytics. Nearly every area of the platform landed one click away, for every role, with no view switching.

The Live Training Calendar. The old calendar was view-only: no filters, no discovery, no registration. I led the rebuild end to end, including sourcing the base tool (MobiScroll), and shipped a calendar that met the LennyKit design system, worked in React and Bootstrap 5, and did what learners expected: find a session, see the details, register, done.

Course tile design. A branded tile system for the Litmos product training journey: one visual language across the whole catalog, built so learners could identify course areas and themes at a glance.

Before my product design role at Litmos, I partnered with the Chief Learning Officer to write, design, and produce the full Litmos Dojo curriculum: the black-belt program that turned customers into platform senseis. Day to day spanned course writing, SCORM authoring, visual design, and video editing.

The animation work was handcrafted from concept to final production in After Effects and Premiere. We also shot live skits in a professional studio with cinematic camera and lighting rigs to make product release training fun to watch.

While on a visual design contract at Google, I noticed researchers fighting a dense spreadsheet to find insights. So I concepted and shipped a 20% project: the Aha! Global Insights & Research Hub, integrating multiple internal tools into one searchable interface.

Search results rendered as scannable "3×5 notecards", up to 15 at a glance, with filtering and sorting that cut the time to find relevant data significantly. Google brought me back in 2018 to design the global awareness campaign: posters, templates, and team swag distributed across offices worldwide.

Designed the NYC Times Square billboard campaign for the launch of CoolSculpting.com: a multi-channel push spanning outdoor, social, and national print placements in People, Allure, and MORE magazines.

Stadium-sized environmental graphics for live, nationally televised NHL events: design that has to read from the nosebleeds, on camera, and in person simultaneously.

For the 2014 Winter Classic at Michigan Stadium, I had hands on virtually every stadium visual in the venue, from mega-banners down to rink-side signage, plus dasher boards and environmental graphics for the Stadium Series at Soldier Field.

End-to-end design of an AI-embedded application for the learning and large-event industry. I own the product design from concept through UI, with AI woven into the core workflows rather than bolted on.

Claude powers the system's extremely complex backend, while the front end delivers AI-driven training and live updates. Users lean on AI to create content rapidly and let it do the heavy lifting across the app.

The product is in stealth and I'm under NDA, so that's all I can share for now.