Jacob Medure
Roadmap Defining Product Designer
I'm a Product Designer with 7 years of experience working remotely from Ventura, CA. I'm also a father, leader and craftsman that honors my responsibility to make intentional, well crafted and cared for products for people.
Designing AI-powered cashflow-smoothing experiences at Zip
Uncovering the joy in weekly meal planning at
What's For Dinner?Making + sharing my process at Jacob's Blue
Archive
2026
Built a private, local-first, digital archive tool helping creators cultivate and protect personal taste.
Cashflow Intelligence
2025
Set the north star vision for an AI powered Zip. User-first recommendations. Consensual, embedded agentic workflows.
Trust Composite Score
2024-25
Led an org-wide codification of the relationship we maintain with our users.
Share to Zip
2024
Wrote the PRD, earned buy-in (with this prototype), designed, and shipped Share to Zip –– allowing users to shop outside the Zip app, then pay when they're ready.
- Making software as one fluid motion. Identifying problems. Earning conviction. Sweating the details. Implementing secure, functional, then delightful experiences.
Taste > Metrics. Relationships are predictive of KPI success.
- This is an experiment.
- Design as a framework. Designing a business as the level boss.
- How you do anything is how you do everything. Be a present dad, partner. Write clearly. Train hard. Make honestly. Cultivate stillness. Listen. Assume you don't know. Do what you said you were going to do.