Hey there, I'm Ian

I'm a senior product designer at Spotify with 10 years of experience making cool stuff, based in Boston Massachusetts. I'm focused on thoughtful implementation of AI in ways that help people connect with music, podcasts, and audiobooks.

In my spare time, I'm also a semi-professional board game designer and avid player of games of all sorts.

Recent Work

AI Overviews

Case Study Forthcoming Feature

Using AI to turn search into a premier source for storytelling, exploration and discovery.

Prompted Playlists for Podcast

Helping users explore content and discover via natural language

Search to Prompt

Instant session generation based on any user queries

Odds and Ends

Board Game Design

I've also published two board games. Here's the one that helped me launch my career