Chad Thornton

Chad Thornton is a highly experienced design leader with a career spanning over two decades at prominent tech companies such as Google, Airbnb, Uber, Medium, Dropbox, Airtable, and currently Elicit. He has consistently held leadership positions, demonstrating a strong capability in building and leading design teams and shaping product design strategy. elicit+1

His design philosophy is deeply rooted in problem-solving and user experience, emphasizing that design is about "changing existing situations into preferred ones" and equally about the words as the visuals. He believes in a "full cycle" approach to design, integrating it into the entire product development process from framing problems to continuous iteration. medium

Chad started his career with a background in biology, which he sees as having similar underlying themes to UX/interaction design, focusing on behavior, ecology, and evolution. He transitioned into UX/interaction design after studying at Carnegie Mellon and working in user research at Intuit. medium+2