George Penston

George Penston

San Francisco Bay Area
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About

I thrive on turning big ideas into reality with collaborative teamwork. As a leader, I…

Articles by George

  • My Readme

    aka How to George What is this? Inspired by other leaders in design and engineering, I revisit my very own readme every…

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  • Introducing Dark Mode to LinkedIn — a Night and Day Difference

    Introduction Building on our design refresh, which aimed to bring to life our diverse, warm and welcoming community…

    79 Comments
  • My Read Me 2021

    What is this? Inspired by other leaders I've been fortunate enough to meet in my life, I started my own read me…

    7 Comments

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Experience

  • LinkedIn Graphic

    LinkedIn

    New York City Metropolitan Area

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    San Francisco Bay Area

Education

Licenses & Certifications

Publications

  • The Creative Director Role (As We Know It) Will Not Exist in 10 Years

    AdvertisingAge

    Today, most ad agencies are still stuck five to ten years in the past when it comes to the creative director role. Creative directors continue to do things the way they've always done them: mapping the brand's identity, putting together Photoshop comps that demonstrate a couple of different variations on an ad, and then dusting off their hands.

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  • Adobe Creative Suite 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

    Adobe Press

    The fully updated Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium software (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, and Acrobat) is a unified design environment. The Creative Suite 2 enables you to realize your ideas anywhere–in print, on the Web, or on mobile devices, and this info-packed guide lets users get right down to doing just that by focusing on the Creative Suite 2 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a…

    The fully updated Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium software (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, and Acrobat) is a unified design environment. The Creative Suite 2 enables you to realize your ideas anywhere–in print, on the Web, or on mobile devices, and this info-packed guide lets users get right down to doing just that by focusing on the Creative Suite 2 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the programs in a way that makes sense to them.

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Patents

  • Method and system to provide composite view of data from disparate data sources

    Filed US US20150310064A1

    Systems and methods for defining a composite view and using the definition of the composite view to obtain, aggregate, analyze, and present data from a variety of data sources to a user. These systems and methods may allow for the definition of a visual framework to aggregate and display related data. This visual framework, or composite view, may in turn be composed of a master view and a set of subviews, each of which may display data collected from a particular data source according to a…

    Systems and methods for defining a composite view and using the definition of the composite view to obtain, aggregate, analyze, and present data from a variety of data sources to a user. These systems and methods may allow for the definition of a visual framework to aggregate and display related data. This visual framework, or composite view, may in turn be composed of a master view and a set of subviews, each of which may display data collected from a particular data source according to a particular format. By interacting with the master view data from a variety of data sources can be displayed.

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Projects

  • AI recommendations

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    Get recommendations in Messenger and Profile where and when it counts.

  • LinkedIn Games

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    Why games on LinkedIn?
    Games on LinkedIn? Yep. Every year, we study the world’s best workplaces, and one thing is clear—having fun together strengthens relationships. So we set out to bring games to LinkedIn to help people connect in a more natural, engaging way.

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Languages

  • Japanese

    Elementary proficiency

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