ollie wagner

creative director, partner

About

Ollie Wagner is the design director at Yap Studios. He possesses the rare and powerful combination of expert skill in both design and engineering. He began his career at Apple as a senior user interface designer, defining interfaces and interactions that many of us use every single day. Ollie’s largest achievements while at Apple include designing multiple apps for the original iPad, illustrating thousands of assets during the transition to retina screens, and being listed on numerous patents for Apple, including one alongside Steve Jobs.¹ To top that off, Ollie is also one of the original designers of Apple’s Emoji.² Among his favorites are the �� and ��. He is passionate about crafting products that are accessible, beautiful, and work as well as they look.

Country

united states

City

albuquerque

Industry

computer software

Skill

ios, user interface design, user experience, software development, illustration, photography, mobile applications, interaction design, information architecture, objective c, user centered design, css, digital illustration, ipad, user interface

Experience

user interface designerâ facebook paper and facebook ios

facebook

2012-11 - 2013-6 · 8 mos

senior user interface designerâ emoji, ipad, and iphone

apple

2008-9 - 2010-8 · 2 yrs

Was part of the UI design team for iPad and iOS4.

creative director, partner

yap studios

2013-6 - Present · 13 yrs 4 mos

We are Yap Studios — a premier app design & development firm located in San Francisco.Company OverviewOur team is composed of former design talent from Apple and Facebook; engineering prowess hailing from Adobe and IBM. We have combined decades of experience bringing world class products to market in world record times — time and time again.DescriptionWe strive to design products that exhibit our personal principles of simplicity, aesthetics, and honesty. We sweat the smallest details, and revel in creating experiences that surprise and delight.Let us take care of everything.Materializing a vision is our speciality. If your company is a startup in a garage or a Fortune 500 company, Yap Studios can take your app idea from start to reality — delivering a product that your customers can download on the App Store. We provide everything from ideation and prototyping to development and app management.