Kunesh ✶ Design

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Shortform Bio

Jason grew up with personal technology, from blue boxes and bulletin boards to bitcoin and AI. He has deep expertise helping businesses discover, design and deliver technology solutions to human problems at scale.

Jason Kunesh is the first and former Design Director of the City of Chicago, helping ensure the City's digital products and services work well for all Chicagoans. The City was awarded 15 Cannes Awards for campaigns built on the Chicago Design System, including a Bronze award for the Design System itself. Jason was the Director of UX and Product for Obama for America 2012 and CEO of Public Good, a Benefit Corporation.

Long Bio

Jason grew up with personal technology, from blue boxes and bulletin boards to bitcoin and AI. He has deep expertise helping businesses discover, design and deliver technology solutions to human problems at scale.

Jason Kunesh is the first and former Design Director of the City of Chicago, helping ensure the City's digital products and services work well for all Chicagoans. The City was awarded 15 Cannes Awards for campaigns built on the Chicago Design System, including a Bronze award for the Design System itself, which was a collaboration with Northwestern University's Segal Design Institute. Jason was the Director of UX and Product for Obama for America 2012, ran a user experience product design firm, and worked at Orbitz, Groupon and other startups.

He's been fortunate to consult or work with awesome organizations from A to Z including: 3M, American Airlines, the Chicago Field Museum, the Clinton Foundation, the Dali Lama Center, Edelman, Emory University, Fellowes Manufacturing, GE Healthcare, Giant Bike, The Grammy Foundation, IBM, Intel, Jabber, LeapFrog, Lockheed Martin, the Mayo Clinic, McDonald's, Microsoft, the NFL, NORC at the University of Chicago, New York Presbyterian Hospital, SAP Fieldglass, Simon Properties, Threadless, United Airlines, UX for Good, Walt Disney Corporation, and bunches more you've never heard of.

He's previously taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, DePaul University, and Northwestern University.

Photos

Mayor Lightfoot, First Lady Eshelman, Design Director Jason Kunesh, Designer Patric King, Executive Design Director Gabe Usadel, and Designer Steve surround a happy birthday Chicago cheesecake for the Design System launch. Jason Kunesh and Dan Ratner found Public Good Software an early social enterprise software startup in Chicago's Harold Washington Public Library.

Photo credit: Chicago Tribune

Jason Kunesh with President Barack Obama demonstrating Dashboard, the campaign's organizing tool.
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