Sawyer Hollenshead

Senior Designer, Frontend Engineer at Nava

Sawyer Hollenshead is a Senior Designer / Frontend Engineer at Nava. Sawyer has also worked as a User Experience Designer at Mozilla and Dumbwaiter, and as a Partner, Product Designer & Full Stack Engineer at Oak Studios.

At Mozilla, Sawyer worked with the Persona team to design, prototype, & usability test authentication concepts to encourage more secure passwords and security practices. Sawyer also worked with the Firefox OS team to design the initial UI for the OS's app store.

At Dumbwaiter, Sawyer was responsible for designing user experiences.

At Oak Studios, Sawyer helped lead product design and frontend engineering on a mix of client projects and their own ventures. Sawyer worked with clients such as Facebook, Spotify, Working Not Working, Openbox, and NYU on a variety of online projects, from the research phase to launch. Sawyer also launched and helped lead the design and frontend engineering of V2 of Dropmark.com, a visual organization tool, from 2013–2016. This included a total redesign, refactoring, and introduction of various paid features like a Teams subscription model. This resulted in an over 400% increase in monthly recurring revenue and an almost 200% increase in average revenue per user. Additionally, they launched and helped lead the design and frontend engineering of V1 and V2 of Siteleaf.com, a content management system for static HTML websites, from 2014–2016. V1 was initially designed and developed in one month

Sawyer Hollenshead has a degree in New Media Interactive Development from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Sawyer Hollenshead reports to Rohan Bhobe, CEO and Co-Founder. Some of their coworkers include Mike Moran - IT Manager, Sean Hendershot - Senior Infrastructure Engineering Lead, and Ivana Ng - VP, Product. and Juweek Adolphe - Designer/Frontend Engineer reports to Sawyer Hollenshead.

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  • Senior Designer, Frontend Engineer

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