About

Des Moines, Iowa · open to remote

Don Liggett

I'm a design engineer with 10+ years of production front-end and brand work — for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Meredith Corporation, and Wells Fargo, and for a media project I ran end-to-end called POAPathon.

What I do best sits between design and development: I take a brand or product idea from concept, through interface design, into working, responsive front-end code — and I've done the same for a community and a media operation, not just a website. Since 2017 I've run independent front-end and design engagements, including Frontend Lead for Empyra's myOneFlow, and led creative production for POAPathon (a ~10,000-member Discord community, 45 produced YouTube episodes, and roughly $120K in coordinated artist payouts).

Today I build with AI agents. I set the architecture, direct the work, and review every change — the agents do the typing, the judgment is mine. That's how I've shipped War Chest, Claude Instruct, FLIGHT DECK, and the rest of the lab.