GR! Endorsements

David was a key hire for the company as we set about establishing and growing an entirely new discipline on the team. He was dynamic, energetic, and able to bring product development into a world where design and ux are integral parts of the process. He personally led the charge, motivated by the challenge and was instrumental in our overall success.

David was the chief interface officer when he hired me in 2002, he gave me one of my first opportunities as interface designer despite my inexperience. He was an enthusiastic boss, putting a lot of illusion in the projects, always trying to be beyond standards working close to his designers. His vision was ahead of most spanish companies of that time.

David is passionate about brand. He loves to bring the essence of a brand alive in visual and emotional language.that unlocks a connection between users and the service they are using. He sidesteps the conventional and strives to bring a fresh perspective to the task at hand. He is astutely aware of the industry and how other brands are trying to do the same so as to leverage critical trends without falling subject to derivatives. And he cares deeply about all of this; he is a true advocate of your product's brand experience inside and outside your company

David works and lives in full colour - and I mean this in every sense of the term; he displays a deep and wide knowledge of his field, and brings this to the fore in an engaging and empassioned style that is dynamic and 'can-do'. Working alongside him as we defined the StumbleUpon brand story and positioning was stimulating, challenging - in the best of ways - and highly professional and supportive. Added to these innate collaborative and leadership qualities, I believe his character and colour adds flair to any team, and this is what will aid and empower anyone working alongside him. I look forward to sharing minds and and beliefs in the future as we navigate forward.

If you're reading this, you're precipitously close to making an extremely good decision: the hiring of David Gomez-Rosado as your Creative Director/ VP of Brand Experience. David is a design-driven master craftsman of the creative arts with 20+ years of experience. His deep expertise is immediately evident in his nimble architecture, and his brand-building is engaging, unabashedly original, and serves as a powerful foundation for his uniquely differentiated narratives. David builds brands and teams that impact people, delight audiences, and resonate with users. Do yourself, and your brand, a big favor--bring in the big guns--and hire Señor Rosado to helm your Creative & UX design teams. I certainly would--and will--as soon as I close out my first angel round.

David made a lasting contribution to the company and team in a very short time period. This ranged from design, messaging, internal and external branding. Part of David's contribution was building and managing a team in order to execute on multiple project on a tight deadline. I hope to work with him again in the future.

Dahveed is an excellent manager and leader. I worked for him (and with him) directly while he advocated and championed great design for Microsoft's Windows Live team--designs that had tremendous impact across the entire product. He coordinated and managed the creation and evolution of the Microsoft Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) and the strong personalization story for customers with work he did for allowing theming of the entire interface. As a manager, Dahveed is exceptional at leveraging the strengths and skills of all he works with. He also instills a sense of trust and confidence in those who report to him. And, the teams and relationships he builds are much stronger for it. I enjoyed working with him and sincerely think you will, too.

David is one of the most amazing UX designer and leader I’ve had the privilege of working with. He’s a rockstar, but yet humble and great to work with at the same time. Look forward to the opportunity to work with David again in the future.

David has been a great asset to Ask.com. By contributing his deep experience in the UX discipline, he helped me and other leaders at Ask conceptualize and drive key products to completion while navigating through all manner of dependencies and complexities. He also built a legacy of talented designers, UX processes, and standards of quality that will benefit us long into the future. Recently, David was key in the re-imagination of Dictionary.com, leading a creative team that gave shape to, evangelized, and ultimately executed my vision of a completely new user experience. I would count on David's expertise anytime, anywhere.

David is singular, arriving at Nike in a comet of visionary excitement and manic, feverish workaholism. He’s all vision & crazy talent. David, ever caffeinated, brought delight and purpose to a young and unseasoned department, with strong, brilliant opinions borne of an almost unparalleled gift of intuition and of his considerable hard-earned experience. I love David!

Gómez-Rosado not only has provided us with a great quality of consultant work, but has also become ‘one of us’ during the process: Working and contributing as if the best interest for our company were genuinely the best for him as well. We recommend his highly personalized services to whomever needs to improve its own corporate image.

David is an extremely creative and visionary design leader. At BitTorrent he helped in a very broad array of roles, from brand to website to campaigns to visual and UX / usability design for products. He arrived at a small start-up and established design as a serious discipline for the first time, hiring a team and organizing external design contractors. He implemented structure and process for the design function and elevated its importance to the executive level. He was both an effective leader and practitioner, equally ready to coordinate work of others as to roll up his sleeves and get the work done himself.

I have had the opportunity to know David Gómez-Rosado through IconMedialab, and it has been, without a doubt, a great experience professionally. I would define him as a well-balanced, well-rounded professional, capable of generating creative flow as well as capturing and directing it to achieve an incredible end result. David is motivated and motivating, inspired and inspiring; very few times have I found a person in my professional life so capable of covering all aspects of direction, be it organisational or structural, that a creative sphere involves. In summary, when under the direction of David Gómez-Rosado, one feels that something really extraordinary can be developed.

David is an outstanding design leader. He has unbridled passion for design in all its forms, and possesses the skills needed to create highly innovative products. He is a strong team builder, quickly nurturing and motivating people with an energetic style. His wide range of experience with blue chip brands and products including Nike, Microsoft and Ask.com give him a unique perspective on how design can drive business goals in organizations. David inspires people across many different disciplines, and is a pleasure to work with.

David “Dahveed” Gomez- Rosado is an inspirational leader to anyone entrenched in the User Experience world and perhaps the most motivating team leader a group of creative professionals could have. An eye for creativity, exceptional attention to detail, and appreciation for careful craftsmanship serve to support and underscore the efforts of his team. It’s a preternatural quality in the Bay Area, really. David’s leadership is based on principles of “best practices” which will not only shape the thinking of a design team, but an entire organization. He is ideally suited to the role of being the backbone of a team and managing people passionate about shaping cohesive product-oriented UI design as well as creative/art direction mixed brimming with signature style. I have never witnessed a bigger proponent for solid and sound UX design. Humble, smart, and a visionary. It has been an immense pleasure to work with such a rockstar professional.

From day one, David has impressed and inspired our team with his leadership, appetite for anything design related, and ability to detect a misaligned pixel from yards away. Not only does he lead by example, he does so while being accessible, and creating an overall atmosphere of mutual effort and respect. Whereas most at David’s standing would merely prescribe, he is one to offer explanation and reasoning for his decisions, and share fluently the learning of his abundant experience. His instinct on what makes good design is always backed by a logical and consistent philosophy. I feel very fortunate to have been able to work with David.

David is a brilliant web/graphic designer. One of the best I’ve ever seen. Let me give you a little context; perhaps you would come to the same conclusion yourself. As the principal scientist at Lithium, I conduct researches and produces analytics reports that have copious amount of complex data with many deep insights from very elaborate analyses. David and I work on the final visualization of these reports. David’s design accentuates the important points of the report, but at the same time guides the inquisitive readers through the more involved part of the report. He is able to take the abstract insight from the numbers that I’ve crunched out and visualized it in a captivatingly interesting way that is easy to digest and understand by scientist and business executives alike. I am so glad to have David as a design resource on this project; otherwise my reports would be totally impenetrable to the common. Aside from being able to deliver visually stunning results in a timely fashion, David is also a very passionate artist who loves what he does and cares much for his team members. I often see him take his team to lunch and discuss the latest and greatest in the design world. Furthermore, David often willingly puts in the extra hours to give his designs the final touches that turn them from being great to just breathtaking. I know this for a fact, because he and I are among the few devotees at Lithium who would stay late, often past 10pm, to polish our final product. And once he got so entranced in work that he forgot time, missed his last bus, and had to ask me to give him a ride to the BART station. His passion for design and commitment to always give his best is rarely seen nowadays. So, if you are looking for a world class designer, I wouldn’t think twice about David. I’d recommend him sincerely and whole heartedly without any reservation.