Vision Sprint
The culmination of my twelve-year work at ZipRecruiter as VP of Product Design. Explores what the future of work might look like.
View Case StudyHi, I'm Blake
Designer, developer, dad, and loving husband. I've led teams to create comprehensive product strategies, developed branding for companies like Instacart and ZipRecruiter, and created applications that make users smile.
I'm based in Pasadena, CA where I own and operate a design and development studio called 941 Apps. 941 Apps. Also see my generative artwork at Dream of Electric.
Companies I've worked with
Recent Work
Project eLLMo
Understanding user job preferences and qualifications via natural language leveraging state-of-the-art LLMs.
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Introl Branding
Introl.com is an IT company specializing in GPU cluster deployments. They asked me to update their branding to convey a fast, efficient, and well-established company that "gets *it done."
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Tappy Color
Tappy Color was created in the summer of 2016 by Chris Greer and Blake Crosley. The game features a fish named Tappy that you save through tapping the screen which lifts the water line.
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Hiring Technology
From 12 years designing hiring products at ZipRecruiter
ResumeGeni
Case Study
Building an AI-powered resume builder informed by 12 years inside hiring technology
How ATS Systems Work
Insider View
How Workday, Greenhouse, Taleo, iCIMS, and Lever parse resumes differently
AI Resume Optimization
Analysis
Why most AI resume tools get optimization wrong — keyword density vs ATS compatibility
Guides
$ ls ./guides/
Claude Code
The definitive reference for Anthropic's agentic CLI. Hooks, skills, MCP servers, and advanced workflows.
$ cat guide.md →
Agent Architecture
Build AI development harnesses. Skills, hooks, memory, subagents, and orchestration.
$ cat harness.md →
Codex CLI
The definitive reference for OpenAI's agentic CLI. Sandbox, config, MCP, and CI/CD.
$ codex exec →
Midjourney
Master AI image generation with V7 prompts, parameters, and techniques for stunning visual output.
/imagine →
FastAPI + HTMX
The no-build full-stack. HTMX, Alpine.js, Jinja2 templates, and plain CSS.
$ less guide.md →
Obsidian + AI
Turn an Obsidian vault into AI infrastructure. Hybrid retrieval and MCP integration.
$ search vault →
Suno
AI music generation from text prompts. Metatags, Creative Sliders, and Studio DAW.
$ generate track →
Design
Foundational design for engineers. Gestalt, typography, color theory, and timeless principles from the masters.
$ read principles →
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