Google
Design leadership for Apple platforms
For ten years, Jeff played a critical leadership role in Google’s Apple platforms community. His team of engineers and designers set out to strike the balance between Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines and the design guidance coming out of Android.
Jeff and his team are some of the most responsive and helpful people we have worked with. His dedication to be a reliable center piece of most applications, to help all of us in adopting new UX guidelines, was a cornerstone in my team reaching their goals.
— Google Photos leadership feedback
If you’ve used a Google product on Apple platforms, you’ve used code owned by Jeff’s team.
2014 - 2024
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Google Maps
for iPhone
Jeff led UX engineering for the launch of Google Maps for iOS.
Applying lessons learned from Facebook, Three20, and Nimbus, Jeff’s leadership enabled the code for Google Maps to form the iOS foundation of what became publicly known as Material.
June 2012 - April 2013
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6452 followers
Nimbus
The iOS framework that grew only as fast as its documentation.
Nimbus was the successor to Three20. Its focus on documentation and modular architecture carried into Jeff’s work at Google, helping establish a similarly expansive set of components and design guidance for all of Google’ iOS applications.
As of 2024, Nimbus is still one of the top Objective-C projects on GitHub.
June 2011 - May 2024
Facebook
for iPad
Jeff was the lead engineer on the first version of the Facebook iPad app. As the person with the most knowledge of both Three20 and Facebook’s iPhone codebase, he was able to quickly and efficiently create a universal app that supported both the iPad and the iPhone.
June 2010 - June 2011