Hi, 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

Kiradex

A collector's dex for Pokémon cards, built around the card as an object: a scanner that names the card you hold up, on the phone; every set in English and Japanese; each card in 3D with foil that moves as it turns; a pixel-art town for collectors; and a website that runs the app inside a model of its device.

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Randori

A jiu-jitsu training log for iPhone and Apple Watch, built because I train. Live heart rate on the mat, session notes matched on-device to film-backed lessons, honest belt progress, and a CloudKit social layer with moderation wired in from day one.

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941 Reps

A fast, private workout log for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Handwritten notebook design, seventeen languages, and a connector that lets Claude read your training history and plan your next session through one validated write path.

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Return

A zen meditation and focus timer for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Mac. Built end-to-end in SwiftUI for iOS 26 with Liquid Glass, HealthKit mindful-minute logging, and iCloud session sync across every device.

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Get Bananas

A handwritten-style shopping list for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch — with a Claude Desktop extension that lets Claude read and update your list. SwiftUI on every device, an MCP server in the bundle, one JSON file in your iCloud container.

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941 Tiles

A one-click window tiler for macOS. When the Mac App Store sandbox forbade the Accessibility API every other tiler relies on, I shipped anyway by delegating the window moves to Apple's own Shortcuts engine. Native Swift, 17 languages, collects nothing.

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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.

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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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Ace Citizenship

A free iOS app helping immigrants prepare for the USCIS naturalization test through spaced repetition. Designed, branded, and engineered by hand.

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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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