The Works
Speaking
Regardless of your politics, the stories are real and the ideas are applicable to your teams, fast-moving or not. I’m still referencing this talk in conversations four years later. -- Brandon Schauer, Head of Adaptive Path at Capital One
I've spoken at companies, universities, conferences and more.
Contact speaking@kunesh.design at for speaking inquiries.
Representing the City of Chicago in Digital & Physical Spaces — Chicago Graphic Design Club, 2021
The 'How' Matters: Design and Resilience — MetroLab Network Summit Panel, 2020
Designing with the Public: How Figma Empowers Chicago Digital Services — Config, 2020
The Dreaded I Word - Real Talk about Delivering Innovative Work — Digital Government Summit, 2019
Design Thinking in Civic Service — SF Design Week, 2019
Startup Coach — Higher Ground Labs Accelerator, 2019
Tall Tales & Short Thoughts About Data-Driven Human Centered Design — Adobe Creative Jam, 2019
Emcee & Facilitator — ThinkChicago, 2019
A Small Team @ Civic Scale — Design for America Summit, 2019
Chat with students — Northwestern University Medill Journalism School, 2019
Impact @ Scale: More? Better? — Design for America Summit 2018 Leadership Symposium, 2018
Borderless: Design for Public Services — Service Design Day, 2018
Human-Centered Design in Government — Digital Government Summit, 2018
Keynote Conversation with the City of Chicago's Danielle DuMerer, CIO, and Jason Kunesh, Design Director, moderated by Russ Unger — Chicago Camps, 2018
Human Centered Design at the City of Chicago — NETT Day at Northeastern Illinois University, 2018
Leveraging The Value Of UX Panel — UXD Chicago Meetup, 2018
City of Chicago's First Design Director — Chi Hack Night, 2018
Emcee & Facilitator — ThinkChicago, 2018
What is a Future Design Cooperative? — Chicago Design Week, 2017
Design Advisor — Designation, 2017
Social Enterprise Real Talk from the Field — South by Southwest (SXSW), 2017
Design Chicanery at Obama for America — The American Association of Law Libraries, 2016
Civic Networking - Evolving Approaches to Online Organizing — Institute for Leadership and Service Pathways to Purpose series, 2016
How to be a Designer CEO at a Startup without Being a Jerk — Chicago Camps, 2016
The Happiness Movement — World IA Day, 2015
The Beacon Lounge: Do Good Dialogs — South by Southwest (SXSW), 2014
Future 2040 Panel — W3C Web at 25, 2014
Keynote — Prototype Camp, 2014
Rules of Engagement - The New Face of Giving — JP Morgan Chase, 2014
Design Chicanery at Obama for America — UX Week, 2013
In the Loop: Jason Kunesh — IIT Institute of Design In The Loop Series, 2013
Design Advisor — Starter League, 2013
Digital Organizing at Obama for America with Dan Ryan & Jason Kunesh — Mobile Summit, 2013
Design Chicanery at Obama for America — Tech Talks at Google, 2013
Design Chicanery at Obama for America — BAYCHI, 2013
Do Gooder lounge — South by Southwest (SXSW), 2013
Participant — IxDA Value of UX Panel at Groupon, 2013
10 Lessons Learned from Obama for America — Refresh Chicago, 2012
Jason Kunesh Talks About Designing for Humans Youth — 1871, 2013
Design Coach, Lightning Talk — HATCH, 2013
Design Coach & Participant — UX for good, 2013
Keynote — Web Visions, 2013
Design Facilitator — UX for Good, 2012
Design Business Growth Happiness — The D Conference, 2012
Levels of Design — UX for Good, 2012
College of Digital Media Panel on Mobility — DePaul University’s College of Computing & Digital Media Corporate Technology Breakfast, 2012
Design Context Clues — IA summit, 2008
Rails + AJAX and Universal Design — Railsconf, 2006
It Makes Sen$e - The User Research Practice in My Experience at Orbitz — World Usability Day, 2005
Press
My work has been featured in the Atlantic Monthly, BusinessWeek, the Chicago Tribune, Forbes, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, TIME, the Wall Street Journal, WIRED and others. I am good at explaining the impact of innovation on culture.
Contact hello@kunesh.design for press inquiries. press kit
Cannes Festival Awards Chicago With 15 Lions For Branding Work From 'by Chicago. For Chicago.' Partners — City of Chicago, 2021
City Announces Launch Of New Chicago Design System On City’s 183rd Birthday — City of Chicago, 2020
Chicago’s New Brand Identity Could Save The City $10 Million A Year — Fast Company, 2020
Chicago’s New 311 System Is A Huge Win For Public Works — WIRED, 2019
A Distributed Government By The People, For The People — CityLab, 2019
Chicago Gets A New 311 App — WBEZ, 2018
New 311 App Allows Chicagoans To Report Potholes, Rats Or Employer Wrongdoing Anonymously — And Track City Response — Block Club Chicago, 2018
Why Chicago Added A Design Office To City Hall — GovTech, 2018
How Some News Outlets Let Readers ‘take Action’ With A Click — WTTW, 2018
Jason Kunesh Of Public Good On How Bands Are Just Like Startups — 2017
Running A Ui Design Critique — Smashing Magazine, 2016
Tech Developer Talks Civic Good — the Valparaiso Torch, 2016
Jason Kunesh, Public Good — Be like Peter, 2016
8 Tenets Of Good Company Culture—does Yours Have Them? — Success, 2015
5 Things I Wish I Knew As A First Time Ceo — 5 in 60, 2015
Public Good Offers Digital Backbone To '#ilgive' Campaign — Chicago Tribune, 2015
Giving In The Digital World — WNET Metrofocus, 2015
Jason Kunesh Of Public Good Software — WGN Radio, 2014
Can A Like Button For Doing Good Create A More Caring Internet? — Motherboard, 2014
Introducing Public Good Software–a New Way To Turn Articles Into Action — Chicago Reader, 2014
We Are A Civic Tech City — Built in Chicago, 2014
Obama Campaign Veterans Launch Hub For Charitable Giving — Chicago Tribune, 2014
Jason Kunesh On Building A Community For The Public Good, Simplifying The Complex And Working For Obama — Podchaser, 2014
Chicago Camps Podcast Interview — Chicago Camps, 2014
Ex-obama Techies Hope To Do Well With Public Good — Crain's, 2014
Dream Jobs You’ve Never Heard Of- Director Of User Experience For Obama For America Campaign — WIRED, 2013
When The Nerds Go Marching In — Atlantic, 2013
Public Good Software Lands 1 Million Seed Funding — Tech President, 2013
Building Tech For Civic Life — Lumpen Times, 2013
A Conversation With Jason Kunesh — Adaptive Path, 2013
Inside Obama's Campaign — Rolling Stone, 2013
The Billion-dollar Startup: Inside Obama’s Campaign Tech — Dice, 2013
Obama’s Campaign Quick To Capitalize On Text-to-donate Option — Roll Call, 2012
Quick Donate Transformed Political Fundraising In 2012 — Mashable, 2012
For Startups, Design Is The New Competitive Advantage — Forbes, 2012
Microsoft Healthvault Manager — Mayo Clinic, 2012
Various Web 1.0 & Entertainment Media. — 1997
Awards
I've worked 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 more.
Cannes Lions International Festival Award — Cannes: The One Show 2021, 2021
100 Best Typographic Works 2021 — Society of Typographic Arts, 2020
Best New Startup - Catalytic — Moxie Awards, 2017
People's Choice Award- Ux For Good New Orleans — Interaction Design Association, 2013
Best In Category - Connecting, Obama For America Mobile Campaign — Interaction Design Association, 2013
Breakout Of The Year - Obama For America Digital Campaign — Webby Awards, 2012
New York Presbyterian Mynyp.org Hospital Patient System Leadership Award — eHealthcare Awards, 2009
Mayo Clinic Health Manager Best Health/healthcare Content - Silver & Best Overall Internet Site - Distinction — eHealthcare Awards, 2008
Orbitz For Business Named Industry’s Best In Ease Of Use — Business Traveler, 2003-05
Orbitz For Business — Chicago Innovation Award, 2004
Chicago Field Museum E-commerce Site Named Top 10 Museum Online Store — USA Today, 2002