David Bowman

Principal Design Engineer — design systems, applied AI and digital experiences for humans and agents. Based in Logan, Utah.

Automattic / WordPress VIP Principal Design Engineer 2023 — now Tools for AI agents, engineers and content creators on enterprise-scale WordPress. Applied AI, design systems, content analytics, and contributions to WordPress core. Design Director 2019 — 2023 Led product and design systems alongside brand and marketing design — the shared design language and tooling behind the enterprise product. Senior Art Director 2019 Established the visual and brand system for WordPress VIP.
American Field Trip Co-Founder, Bus Driver 2017 — 2024 Left New York to visit all 63 US national parks in a self-converted bus with my family. A long-running exercise in brand, content and bus driving.
Doyle Partners, New York Designer 2014 — 2017 One of three designers working under Stephen Doyle. Branding, media production and illustration for The New York Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, Cole Haan, Brooklyn Brewery, David Byrne, Murray’s Cheese.
Earlier Design Intern, TD Ameritrade 2013 Interaction Design TA, Brigham Young University 2013 Taught principles of interaction design and the process of developing digital user experiences. Creative Intern, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners 2012 Concepting, comping and producing advertisements for television and digital media. Graphic Designer, The Daily Universe 2011 — 2013 Advertisements and layouts for the daily print paper; art directed three annual special sections and helped rebrand the paper from a daily to a digital-first weekly.
Brigham Young University BFA, Graphic Design 2008 — 2015

Publishing & awards

Graphis New Talent Annual Gold award.
“Family Adventures” Austin Salisbury, Gestalten Photography and story on traveling with a family full time.
Geo Magazine Feature on the bus and the parks project.
“Tree Thieves” Lyndsie Bourgon, Little, Brown Spark Photography.

Open source

WordPress Core contributor.
WordPress Admin Workspaces Rethinking the admin as task-focused workspaces.
WordPress Block Actions A shared pattern for actions attached to blocks.
Figmagent An agent that works inside Figma.