I am a generalist passionate about building design, engineering, and people. I excel in high-change moments and at intersections, where clarity is needed. My goal is to find a kind and ambitious team, doing something good, where I can move purposefully and improve things.
Design Engineer, Macro
Aug, 2025 - Present
Led a major UI revamp and product pivot, enhancing team navigation and cohesion.
Helped the team traverse a major UI revamp and product pivot.
Built a mobile app using Tauri to wrap a Rust + SolidJS monorepo.
Head of Everything, Miniware
Jan, 2023 - Present
Organizational design and small-software studio.
Built a profitable and bootstrapped small business
Shipped first party software products
Enabled early startups to organize efficiently, aiding multiple to surpass $1M in ARR.
Designed custom software tools for other creative and independent studios, such as DJR Type
Senior Director of Brand & Integration (Post Thesis Acquisition), Barrington Media Group
Jan, 2022 - Mar, 20231 year 2 months
Led brand and operating-model integration following Thesis acquisition.
Directly responsible individual for multi-organizational rebrand.
Drove alignment between C-suite and departmental leadership to combine the most effective processes and components of each org.
Spearheaded internal product initiatives.
VP, Creative & Design, Thesis
Nov, 2020 - Jan, 20221 year 2 months
Executive leadership across creative, post production, interface design, and studio functions.
Scaled multi-disciplinary teams and built repeatable operating systems across departments.
Coached multiple wonderful people through the transition from IC to Manager
Developed company-wide transparent leveling and payscale.
Spearheaded a company-wide reorganization into cross-functional, agile teams.
Built an in-person film production studio at a remote-first company
Highest personel retention rate of any manager at the company, including reports of reports.
Head Of Design, Thesis
Sep, 2019 - Nov, 20201 year 2 months
Led the design team, scaled headcount and output significantly.
Developed methods for creating and maintaining 80+ design systems, at scale (millions of MAU).
Implemented cross-training and onboarding programs for new employees.
Helped broaden hiring access by removing early-stage portfolio/education barriers.
Documented and democratized design processes to increase IC autonomy and standards.
Lead Designer, Thesis
Mar, 2019 - Sep, 20196 months
Improved project management processes and KPI measurement with Engineering and CRO.
Migrated the team to Figma, improving collaboration, and significantly reducing cost.
Lead Frontend Engineer, Thesis
Sep, 2018 - Mar, 20196 months
Founding member of the engineering team, architected core pattern library, content management, and form systems.
Automated new client application creation, saving days per instance.
Built and scaled engineering and infrastructure teams, hiring
Defined core cultural and ops processes including code review, CI checks, and automated testing.
Freelance Design + Code + Consulting, Nick Noble Works
Jul, 2014 - Sep, 20184 years 2 months
Helped companies big and small make the most of their products across brand, web, internal tools, and production graphics.
Select clients include HBO / Blown Deadline Productions, Netflix, The Ogden Museum, The 1912 Center, DJ-Sun, Friendship Co, PDK International, Two More Minutes, and Startup Weekend.
Work included production graphics and typography for film and TV projects during this period.
Departed IATSE 829 in 2018 to shift focus away from film/TV projects.
Interaction Designer, nclud
Jan, 2014 - Jul, 20146 months
Designed and coded for world-class clients such as Google, Rosetta Stone, Adobe, and George Washington University.
Spearheaded a successful company rebrand.
User Experience & Interface Designer (Contract), Dinner Lab INC
Oct, 2013 - Jan, 20143 months
Built a custom, modular and responsive front-end pattern library.
Creative Director, Lanyap Creative
Jan, 2013 - Dec, 201311 months
Oversaw projects across custom websites, animation, events, and brand identities.
Led multi-medium client work spanning web, motion, experiential, and identity.
- Present
A mysterious AI-powered tarot reader. Has hundreds of users, average time on site is 10min+, never marketed.
- Present
A collaborative web project with DJR Typography exploring expressive, high-fidelity web typesetting and type interaction demos.
- Present
A lightweight Markdown superset and templating language for authoring structured pages when MDX is too heavy and plain Markdown is too limited.
- Present
A fantasy TTRPG-themed wedding website and open-source case study in bespoke, narrative-first product design and party-based RSVP flows.
People management
Hiring & recruiting
Capability development
Change management
Agile / Scrum
Cross-functional leadership
HTML
CSS
Tailwind
JavaScript
SolidJS
Svelte
Ruby on Rails
Design systems
Test Driven Development
Behavior Driven Development
Domain Driven Development
Metrics & workflow tooling
UI/UX
Accessibility
Figma
Prototyping
Brand identity
Typography
User testing & surveying
Summer 1 Batch, Program, Recurse Center
May, 2025 - Aug, 2025
Theatre Technology, High School, Baltimore School for the Arts
Sep, 2007 - Jun, 2010
Notion Certified, Notion
Issued on: Jan 01, 2022
ADG Nomination , The Art Directors Guild
Awarded on: Jan 01, 2019
For contribution to excellence in production design for a period feature film, The Irishman.
Adjunct Educator / Curriculum Designer, Baltimore School for the Arts
Aug, 2018 - Dec, 2018
Designed and piloted the school's first computer programming curriculum for the interactive storytelling program.
Talk: A Short Manual for Sustainable Side Projects , 3-3.fyi
Published on: Mar 01, 2025
How side projects can help fuel passion for work & craft
Talk: Defining Tarot , Joshua Lodge No. 890 GLNY
Published on: Jan 01, 2024
A long talk on the history and method of reading tarot cards.
Talk: Design Signals , Thesis
Published on: Jan 01, 2020
Design fundamentals of space, type, and color with an atomic lens.
Talk: The Work Between the Work, Notion NY
Published on: Jan 01, 2019
How documentation as a cultural practice can improve almost all aspects of teamwork.
Nick can't help but be a leader. He's a keystone addition because he's the kind of person who loves the process of problem solving. His opinions are novel and well-informed, his strategies connect dots across teams, and his communication skills are compelling. He's a rare find, and should immediately snapped up if available.
Nick is nothing short of a genius when it comes to building teams and accompanying workflows. He can be creative as needed but also maintain a laser focus on outcomes that matter.
Nick improved my ability to think strategically and make considered operational decisions to better support my team. Personally, I'm now the most fulfilled and motivated I've ever been.
Nick is an incredibly hard worker who pays the utmost attention to detail. Across all of his many disciplines. He's is a dedicated and quick learner, if there is a new development or design trend, he probably already knows it. He is also a pro at communicating with clients and team members — it has been nothing but a pleasure working with him.