Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson

Senior UX Designer & Developer

Matt, Senior UX Designer, loves learning about user behaviors, goals and challenges and then taking those insights and designing tools that help make their lives easier. He collaborates closely with our clients to work through constraints and find compromises that keep the best interests of users in mind. He has a background in development and uses that knowledge to help the VLG designers understand the perspective of developers. He also enjoys rubbing elbows with the client development teams to help ensure that our designs are implemented as intended.

Matt has a bachelor’s degree in electronic media and a minor in art from the University of Northern Iowa. He also earned an Associate of Applied Science Degree in recording technology from McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota. Before he joined the Visual Logic team, Matt worked as a web designer and videographer.

When the workday is done, Matt enjoys spending time with his wife and two kids on their little acreage out in the country. He dabbles in building guitars and runs a side-hustle—recording, mixing & mastering music. When not working on music, he’s listening to podcasts, watching the Iowa Hawkeyes, or helping out at church.

Latest insights from Matt

UX Design Can Help You Break the Curse of Knowledge
UX Design Can Help You Break the Curse of Knowledge

The curse of knowledge can choke out empathy toward users, allow jargon to creep its way into your product, and create a tendency to build out complicated (and expensive) features that few will use.

UX on the Move: How Can I Optimize UX across platforms?
UX on the Move: How Can I Optimize UX across platforms?

From the moment you wake up to the minute you plug in your phone for the night, you’re surrounded by technology. It’s in your pocket, on your desktop, in your car, and maybe even on your wrist. It’s...