JASON PEREZ
is
looking
for
their
next
design
role
in
tech,
fashion,
and
music.
PREVIOUSLY AT ✸ Dropbox, One Kings Lane, ZOZI, Tractorbeam, TBWA/Integer Group
9 TO 5 ✸ I put my serious hat on, become objective with gut, wit, candor, and empathy
AVAILABLE ✸ for all kinds of work, visual, UX, UI, XU, XI, and all the imaginable acronyms
Selected Works
So, look, most of my work for the last decade has been in consumer-facing collaboration tools. Hot. Amazing. Wonderful. Today, I'm more interested in the intersection of taking what I've learned at million and billion dollar companies, and applying it to where my heart lies… joyful, playful, expressive, intimate, and creative experiences.
CONCEPTS I LINGER ON,
THESE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE GIFS BUT THERE'S A BUG, PLEASE FORGIVE THE DOWNSAMPLEDNESS OF THESE BACKGROUNDS TYSM.
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Ephemeral and evergreen
knowing when to hold onto things of interest; belief that the good ideas come back around; reflecting on what sticks, what fades, and how technology might rekindle and reconstruct these moments, making them useful to me (and others) again;
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Time capsules and breadcrumbs
fascination with retracing steps with relevance; gathering, foraging artifacts, collecting, manual and automatic markers; preservation of moments, gathering digital mementos as breadcrumbs for future self-discovery;
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Private and public
balancing personal reflection with public personas; navigating between private thoughts, close conversations, and public spaces; embracing the tension of identity and authenticity with public scrutiny; what we reveal, is it mine or ours?;
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Fidelity and apertures
observations in varying resolutions (hour → day → week); evolving fidelity (thought → a discussion → an elaborate artifact); actions that support the bigger picture (a small notion → a better understanding → a feeling of balance and purpose);
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X
Surface and subterranean
perceiving the shell and the core; venturing beyond what’s immediately visible; accessing possibilities beyond a fixed view; polished facades and chaotic realities; exploring the middle space of internal and external perspectives;
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Portals and containers
(in software, apps, surfaces, browsers) vessels that intervene and interject; flexible containers matching its contents; guiding, facilitating; knowing what you may need, or getting out of the way; oscillation between foreground and background;
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Virtual and physical
URL to IRL; converging and diverging simulation with reality; spaces, habits, boundaries (or lack of); online and offline permanence; mirrored identities, doubled identities; digital informing the physical, physical influencing the virtual;
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Finite and infinite
reflecting on the tension between the tangible limits of the now and the boundless realms of possibility; forever; boundless; limited; bound; understanding constraints of the present while embracing the infinite potential of possibility;
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