Cybersecurity for Planes, Trains, & Tanks - Oh My
Outside of my favorite degenerate action movies from the late 90s, I had no idea you could actually “hack” a plane or a tank, and I doubly didn’t know you could probably hack a train from its toilet.
As the Head of Design for cybersecurity company Shift5, my charge is to manage the usual challenges of “building a Design organization for a well funded startup with an intense and often scary client base,” create what individual contributor style work I’m less and less needed for (on this page, below), and guide the work the team I’ve built does every day. They're incredible, and I am so terribly proud of them.
For clarity: While the bulk of Shift5's design work is delegated and handled by my exceptional team, the examples on this page are all, for better or worse, things I've created directly.
SHIFT5
// 2021 - 2022
TEAM:
CHRISTIE DESANCTIS
ANITA GARDNER
ALEX HUBBARD
NICOLE WHEELER
MY ROLE:
HEAD OF DESIGN
Need a video in a pinch, and your Head of Design has a nauseating 45-hours worth of narration sitting on Spotify right at this very moment? Give that man a copy of Adobe Premiere, a microphone he probably doesn’t need, and turn him loose. We should really hire a video guy for the next one.
For anyone who will listen, I’m constantly espousing the necessity that in all the work we do, we need to “look like ourselves.” Our internal studio executes against an established style guide (my most concise one yet at 93 pages), and uses this to reinforce brand integrity in everything we design.
While remote work is my newfound religion, getting the team together for an offsite is always a blast - even if the primary goal is to re-learn how to make eye contact with people outside of a Zoom call.
