m.epler
biped
mammal
mammal
Design technologist +
Community builder
Catskills region, New York, USA
My specialies include:
+ Accelerating product development with rapid prototyping
+ Operationalizing end-to-end, “full-stack” UX practices
+ Aligning engineering, product, and business teams
+ Leadership and development of thriving, multi-skilled teams
+ Design-thinking workshop facilitation
I build AI SaaS protoypes and design systems at Amazon Web Services in the Applied AI Solutions organization.
I am the founder and community lead of Kinograph, a world wide effort to save and share the world’s most interesting films.
I am designing a regenerative community with a focus on trade skills and and multi-generational support.
My work has been featured in Wired, Gizmodo, Vice, Fortune, Newsweek, Fast Company, The Washington Post, Core77, Hypebeast, Design Taxi, Engadget, Product Hunt, and others. But that was a long time ago.
Recent work is available by request. Samples include a React application for A/B testing AI UX patterns for recruiters (AWS), technical strategy and business risk assessment for a design system built for generative UI (AWS) product design explorationsfor managing AI identities (AWS), an alignment framework for engineering and design teams building AI-native applications (AWS), UI design for a computer vision and machine learning platform (AWS), and a product strategy workshop for AI feature prioritization (AWS, Honda, NFL, NHL).
Be well. Be helpful.