I'm Timoni West, a freelance product designer in San Francisco. I design web and mobile products that blend thoughtful user experiences with classic design & typographical philosophies. My focus is on creating beautiful, useful products that people love.

My skills include user interface and experience design, research and branding, and markup.

I also like occasional print work, and have laid out publications for ethsix* and 826 Valencia.

You can read more about me in my resume.

Select Works

Various Flickr pages

There's a lot of a marketing and one-off partnership designs at Flickr, like the Getty Images page, the photo page redesign tour, and various specialized banners banners.

Role: Concept and design. (2010 - 2011)

Flickr integrations

The first comprehensive developer guide for Flickr needed some visual love to make it interesting. After designing the pages, I drew a small series of illustrations set in a friendly 'Flickrverse' as background headers for each page. The Twitter account for the Flickr API has a special background that incorporates all of the illustrations.

Role: Concept and design. (2010 - 2011)

Photojojo

Photojojo wanted to redesign their shipping label to match the friendly tone of their website. Turns out it was surprisingly easy.

Role: Concepts, design, HTML & CSS. (2010)

Scribd concepts

When Scribd was looking to redesign their website, they asked for a series of look-and-feels with inspirations ranging from Apple to The Morning News to the New Yorker.

Role: Designs, HTML & CSS. (2008)

Wedding invitations

When Lauren and Chris started planning their wedding, they knew they wanted invitations traditional enough to please their parents but also memorable and fun. The final five-piece set made everyone happy.

Role: Designs and print prep. (2010)

Flickr email redesign

Six years is a long time for a web company to go without auditing their emails. The first official Flickr email redesign including creating a new standard template for twenty-odd messages and adding a ton of new functionality.

Role: User research and designs (2009 - 2010)

Flickr schwag

Every proper web company needs schwag, especially t-shirts and sweatshirts.

Role: Designs and print prep (2010)

Teaology

Tea lovers often cherish the experience of tea drinking as much as the beverage itself. Teaology aimed to provide a space for members not only to discuss their favorite brews, but give fair and unbiased descriptions of their local teahouses.

Role: Concepts (2009)

Ethsix

Ethsix was an annual journal that paired trained social workers with professional journalists, artists and photographers to create various pieces on civil issues in the Bay Area.

Role: Design, layout and print prep work (2008)

Timoni also finds herself making a lot of small web pages for various reasons, often ridiculous. Here's a partial list.

You made it to the bottom! If you're dying for more, you can download the resume or email timoni@timoni.org. You can also check out the blog, or follow Timoni on twitter.