Hi, I’m John

I’m John Dilworth, not to be confused with the legendary animator of the same name (John R. Dilworth) whose fan mail I occasionaly receive, or my distant cousin who uses my name and email address to sign up for every single dating site in the UK.

I am a designer and an artist. Some have issues with that, but I have problems trying to keep the two separate. I even like to cross over to the dark side and write code. I think design and art happens in any medium—code editors included.

I’m also a manager. I find most corporate manager-ly things thoroughly annoying. However, I care lots about people, and the most rewarding benefits of my career have been watching people I’ve had the opportunity to “manage” grow into amazing designers and leaders.

I’m currently working at Lucid Software as Sr. Director of User Experience.

I’d love to see job titles, corporate hierarchies, and everything that goes with them go away. I do a little directing, but mostly I like working with a team to make stuff better and more beautiful.

I have learned a few things in my career, including the fact that ideas are never good because of someone’s position. I have also learned that sometimes what we really need is a little less action, and a lot more chaos.