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title: "Joe Woodward — Software Designer"
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description: "Joe Woodward is a software designer and builder in New York. Currently Founding Designer at Roam."
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# Joe Woodward — Software Designer

Joe Woodward is a software designer and builder based in Brooklyn and the Catskills, New York. Currently Founding Designer at Roam, previously Design Lead at Snapchat and Microsoft Outlook. He has shaped products at Roam, Snap, Microsoft, DoorDash, and Disney — from design systems and native apps to brand identity, 3D and motion.

## Focus

- Software design across native iOS, Android, and web
- Design systems: tokens, components, documentation, accessibility
- Brand identity, animation, and 3D
- Design engineering — designs ship as code

## Experience

### Founding Designer · Roam (current)

AI-powered virtual office for distributed teams. Leading design across the brand and the product surfaces people use every day, with 3D and motion for the marketing. Work includes the live virtual office (company presence on the map), On-Air immersive events, the Theater for all-hands, Chat (built on AInbox) and AI meeting summaries (Magic Minutes).

### Design Lead · Snapchat

Built and shipped Snapchat's design system: color, typography, elevation, layout. Led the team creating components, system templates, and documentation. Designed animated tab bars and consolidated bottom sheets. Drove dynamic-type and color-contrast accessibility compliance across iOS and Android.

### Design Lead · Microsoft Outlook

Outlook design across mobile and web. Owned multiple feature areas; see /llm/microsoft for details. Earlier Microsoft work also covered SwiftKey.

### Earlier · DoorDash, Disney

Product design at DoorDash and Disney before Microsoft.

## Projects

- [Snapchat](https://joewoodward.co/snapchat) — Design Lead, Systems
  Built and shipped Snapchat's design system — the foundation of color, typography, elevation and layout used across every surface in the app. Led a team creating components, system templates and docume…
- [Microsoft](https://joewoodward.co/microsoft) — Design Lead, Outlook
  Led product design for Outlook across iOS, Android and macOS. Redesigned core surfaces of the app and helped start the [open-source](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui-system-icons) Fluent icon sys…
- [Roam](https://joewoodward.co/roam) — Founding Designer
  Founding Designer at Roam — an AI-powered virtual office for distributed teams. Leading design across the brand and the product surfaces people use every day, with 3D and motion for the marketing. Roa…
- [Cabin](https://joewoodward.co/cabin) — Catskill, NY
  My wife and I are building our Catskill cabin this year on Paradise Lake, at the foot of the mountain. A secluded parcel near Catskill, NY — the lake freezes in winter, with the Hudson River, trails a…
- [The Dugout](https://joewoodward.co/dugout) — Side Project
  An AI-powered football app for your club — my side project. Follow any Premier League, Championship or World Cup team with live scores, match schedules, AI-summarized news and league standings. Availa…

## Social

- [twitter](https://x.com/The__Woodpecker)
- [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcwoodward/)
- [strava](https://www.strava.com/athletes/42323774)

## Other Pages

- [Contact](https://joewoodward.co/contact) · LLM mirror: [/llm/contact](https://joewoodward.co/llm/contact)
- [Photos](https://joewoodward.co/photos) · LLM mirror: [/llm/photos](https://joewoodward.co/llm/photos)
- [RSS Feed](https://joewoodward.co/feed.xml)