Chris Willis

Hi. I design digital products that feel genuinely human.

I'm currently the Chief Design Officer at Domo in American Fork, Utah.

As Chief Design Officer and Futurist at Domo, I devoted nearly 15 years to build one of the first cloud-native, mobile-first data platforms, with governed AI that real people can actually use. My focus is always designing technology to solve human problems, not just cool demos.

What I'm known for

• Founding designer at Domo building to $330M+ in revenue
• Domo's AI experiences, including its natural-language AI Chat and a framework that runs nearly any large language model on the platform
• 2025 Executive Excellence Award, Utah Business Magazine
• Forbes Technology Council member
• Six U.S. patents

In the media

• Made over 30 appearances so far this year from TV to podcasts
• Topics: Human-AI collaboration, the future of work and emotional design
• Recent:FoxNews segment on how Domo powers human-AI collaboration and the future of work

Before Domo

• Co-founded Footnote.com (now Fold3.com), a TechCrunch50 finalist that put 670M+ National Archives documents online. Acquired by Ancestry.com for $27M.
• Co-author of Designing Web Sites That Sell (Peachpit Press)
• Co-founded Hour Media and Hour Detroit Magazine
• Award-winning newspaper redesigns of The Detroit News and Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Award-winning designer, illustrator and journalist
• Original concept development for O, Oprah Magazine

Outside of work

• Chaired the board of a Blue Ribbon charter school
• Helped pilot humanitarian flights of medical care into remote parts of Baja, Mexico
• Coached youth hockey for more than a decade

If you're building the future of work, or just looking for a spirited chat about it, let's talk.