Professional, organized, calm, experienced, and creative.

Josef has been one of the most thoughtful product design leaders I've had the pleasure of working with throughout my career. He consistently demonstrated an outstanding ability to thrive in working through both tough challenges and complicated team dynamics. He consistently provided a welcomed, best-practiced approach to solving some of the trickiest challenges.

His level of professionalism and organization within the craft of product design was incredibly impressive. He consistently demonstrated the value of doing things "the right way" in order to sustain and scale design solutions.

Josef was constantly looking for areas of improvement to the product itself, the team process and the team dynamics. He would reference industry-wide best practice material or new ideas and look for opportunities to educate the team on innovation.

An aspect that I was particularly impressed with, Josef embodies the "strong opinions, loosely held" mindset that I value in a senior-level designer. He would spend the appropriate time on research and collaboration and then not only execute thoughtful solutions, but passionately defend them. But many times, when faced with new information or conflicting evidence, he was willing to re-work through problems and discover new solutions. Any product team would be fortunate to work with Josef and have his approach represented within their environment.

He consistently exhibited an unrelenting attention to detail, and the sheer quality of his design work (in both aesthetic and usability) was top notch. He had an incredible lasting impact on both our team and our products.