Design & Research

Evan

(Ev)

Bowers

portland, or.

UX & UXR

Evan

(Ev)

Bowers

PDX, OR

Evan

(Ev)

Bowers

Noodling @ Portland digital services

Noodling @ PDX digital services

I build practices, tools, & teams that make complex things work for people.

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"Ev is a phenomenal Designer. I was always struck by his ability to take complex product needs and design something delightful with lightning speed. He can work at any altitude and excels in setting the long-term vision while using his design skills to get others excited about the possibilities."

Kenyon Sparks

Product Manager @ Zapier

"Ev is one of the most impressive design thinkers and leaders I have had the pleasure of working closely with. He has an innate ability to see the bigger picture, works collaboratively with others to sense-make and pull together an exciting vision that is both ambitious, and achievable."

Sheryl Soo

VP Design @ Zapier, Ex-SVP Strategy @ Zapier, Ex-Google Robotics, Ex-Frog Design

"Ev works hard to establish a collaborative design culture that values strategy, feedback, and organization. I learned what it looks like to be a design lead in the truest sense: he never fails to encourage people's exploration of concepts or ideas, or to support their professional growth."

Sophia Dengo

Sr. Designer / Researcher @ Nava

City of Portland

Digital Services Team

Built Portland's research and design practice from scratch and grew it into a partnership across city bureaus. The work consistently produced the same result: research redirected projects toward the real problem, not the requested solution. On permitting, that meant task success went from 10% to 82%. Demand from other bureaus now outpaces capacity, which is why the city-wide playbook and design system we built matter, they make the approach repeatable without needing us in every room.

Responsibilities

UI Design

UX Design

Service Design

UX Research

Design Systems

Stakeholder Management

UX Research

Zapier

2023 Product Vision

Reframed a collaboration problem as a retention and revenue issue, synthesized years of disconnected research, and co-led the pitch that got leadership to fund a multi-year roadmap shift. The framing is still shaping how Zapier thinks about teams-based growth.

Responsibilities

UI Design

UX Design

UX Research

Interaction Design

Design Strategy

Product Visioning

Product Design

Cross-Functional Alignment

Zapier

2024 ZapConnect

Shipped four long-requested features for business-critical workflows on a fixed public deadline, while recognizing a capacity gap mid-project and hiring four designers, onboarding each through personal 1:1 pairing sessions to keep the timeline intact. The launch hit its date and the team came out more capable than it started.

Responsibilities

UI Design

UX Design

UX Research

Player/Coach

Design Ops

Teambuilding

Workflow optimization

Cross-team collaboration

Lots more where that came from

More than a decade of
problems solved

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Things that feed my soul

Messy human problems.
Tight knit collaborators.
Sunny spring weather.
Rainy fall weather.
Hot coffee.
Growing food.
Being a dog dad.
Being a cool uncle.
Loud metal.
Smooth jazz.

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