AARON GREEN
Product Design • Aviation • Cognitive Systems
I am a Seattle-based Staff Product Designer with more than 20 years of experience designing emerging technologies across mobile, enterprise, and aviation platforms. My work focuses on modernizing complex operational workflows through human-centered systems thinking, research, and cross-functional collaboration.
Work Highlights
Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro
briefing & en route flight plan workflows & threat assessment
At ForeFlight, I lead human-factors research and product design initiatives for FliteDeck Pro’s integrated EFB platform, helping airlines modernize operational workflows for commercial flight crews.
Flight crews frequently manage a patchwork of applications that fragment attention and complicate critical workflows. This project reimagined the operational experience by consolidating briefing, navigation, documentation, and situational-awareness tools into a unified ecosystem designed around continuity, clarity, and real-world cockpit operations.
Official Flight Plan Summary
Navigation Log
Jeppesen Aviator
aviation workflow & logistics
As UX Design Lead for Aviator at Jeppesen, I helped guide the transition from paper-based cockpit workflows to integrated digital aviation operations.
Partnering closely with commercial pilots, we validated operational concepts through usability testing and field research focused on briefing, navigation logging, and situational awareness. The work contributed to a broader vision for connected flight-deck tools designed to improve continuity, efficiency, and operational clarity for airline crews.
Aviator dashboard and workflow tiles
Microsoft ContractWeb
cohesive branded contract request, search and status
At Microsoft, I worked on ContractWeb, an enterprise platform supporting legal and contracting operations across multiple business functions.
Through remote interviews and collaborative research sessions with attorneys, accountants, administrators, and content managers, I helped identify opportunities to simplify fragmented workflows and modernize the portal experience. Partnering across disciplines, we refined navigation, clarified content strategy, and improved the usability of integrated contracting services used throughout the organization.
ContractWeb concept landing page concept
Microsoft MyOrder
procurement requisition with approver oversight
MyOrder was created to simplify complex procurement workflows at Microsoft, where legacy systems and disconnected interfaces made purchasing difficult to track and manage at scale.
Working closely with buyers, administrators, and assistants, I helped redesign the requisition and approval experience to improve workflow visibility and reduce operational friction. The resulting system introduced clearer status awareness, streamlined task flows, and contextual information designed to help users quickly understand where requests stood within the procurement process.
Usability test variations
Whiteboard review
Edit state of multiple form sections
Skills Profile
​User-centered research philosophy, training, & experience design​
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LUMA Institute user-centered design facilitator with broad awareness of methodologies and 15+ years of evidence-based design practice and acquired research skills
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Commitment to quality design and client experience with adaptability to most cultures
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Agile development trained and well-versed in lean UX methodology with strategy honed by applied practiced
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Broad user-centered curiosity for integrations across disciplines with research tools for observing, outlining, and creating solutions for complex problems
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Skilled composer and moderator of usability test scripts as well as unbiased scribe and analyst
​Communication and empathy​
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Privileged to work in a role with empathy for user struggles and skills for change
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Amature cognition enthusiast with genuine curiosity for alternate interpretation of events or language
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Driven to education when deficiency of knowledge becomes a barrier to understanding
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Prone to analogies when literal language fails to convey meaning adequately
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Easy-handed contributor in team meetings with the ability to read the room as a considerate diplomat
​Leadership and vision
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Accessible, friendly, example-setting mentor with intuition developed over years of coaching product designers
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15 years of Director level design experience leading projects in addition to solo design practice
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Research pioneer on large projects, directing prototype, test, and customer evaluation while remaining open
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Advocate of incremental progress since overcommitment is risky and a roadmap with validation prevents rework
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Constructive team player focused on inclusion
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Emphatic about diverse perspectives at work and building team equity in the end product
What people say about working with me
"Aaron is a top-notch designer. I have worked with him at several companies and he balances great design skills with complex problem-solving. He starts with gaining a solid understanding of business requirements and translates them into elegant and effective designs. He is a great partner with product management and development teams; he cares deeply about products and services that work well for customers. He's a collaborative and creative teammate, and he's a dedicated business partner. I hope to work with Aaron again!"
Paulé Wood
Founder
Transparent Path
"I worked with Aaron on a market segment leading Aviation solution aimed at the pilot persona. Over the course of my career, I’ve worked with dozens of UX designers while Aaron was by far the best. His quality of work, speed, ownership, and communication are beyond reproach. It was a pleasure to work with him and hoping to work with him again in the future."
Benjamin Monnig
Program Manager – Flight Deck Solutions
Boeing
"I've been fortunate to know Aaron since he was in high school, during which his creative talents were already boldly evident. Working with him during the very early days of the Foresight Design Initiative provided me not only with compelling design, but also stretched me creatively in an effort to keep up. Watching him grow and develop since then, not just creatively and technically, but also personally and emotionally, has been edifying and inspiring. There is no "light touch" in Aaron's vocabulary, he fully engages and challenges himself to exceed even his own expectations whether it's a logo or complex user-interface that he's collaborating on crafting. Technically proficient in more ways and on more platforms than I can comprehend, he's also, more importantly, ambitious while still being tactful, generous, thoughtful and kind."
Peter Nicholson
Founding Principal
Foresight Design Initiative