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About Me.

Principal Product Designer at GoPro. A decade of shipping product across mobile, web, and desktop — driven by craft, curiosity, and a love for the ocean.

Steven Fortunato hiking a slot canyon with his family
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About me

I am obsessive about my work and hobbies. I pride myself on my relentless drive to make things happen, building strong relationships along the way.

I am a father, inventor, and founder of a mobile app company that led me to GoPro back in 2019.

  1. 2008 – 2016 · Colorado

    Buildings came first

    Six years to achieve my M.Arch degree at the University of Colorado, then three more designing national park lodges and various buildings around Denver. Architecture taught me the user centered design discipline I still use today.

    Architect hand-drafting a building section in pencil A timber lodge nestled in the woods An angular modern building against a bright sky

  2. 2016 · 21 countries

    Solo Trip Around the World

    I packed one bag and spent 10 months crossing 21 countries, volunteering in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Cambodia along the way. I met my wife in a hostel in Vietnam and came up with an idea for a travel app while riding a motor bike for a month from Saigon to Hanoi.

    Stone stupa strung with prayer flags below Himalayan peaks in Nepal A wooden boat on a still alpine lake ringed by mountains A traveler's flat-lay of camera, compass, and maps on a wooden table

  3. 2017 · COLORADO

    Journey Driven in born

    I was obsessed with the idea of bringing my dream to life. An offline GPS travel tracker + journal, called Journey Driven. I had met with friends in UX, took a 3 month immersive UX bootcamp, and started a company.

    Mobile app screens pinned to a wall, connected with flow lines A hand sketching low-fidelity wireframes on paper Designer wireframing an interface on a tablet

  4. 2017 – 2019 · Phoenix & Princeton

    The startup grind

    Journey Driven grew to over 120,000 monthly active users, all while working a full time UX job. For 18 months, I worked from 5am-9am and 7pm-10pm, with a full time job wedged between. Maybe the most raw chapter of growth and grit in of career, and it paid off handsomely when it eventually got the attention of GoPro.

    Laptop open to a code editor on a startup desk A small team working together on laptops Hands collaborating over notebooks and a laptop at a table

  5. 2019 – Present · GoPro, San Diego

    The GoPro years

    My dream job. Joined to lead editing features, promoted twice, Principal since 2023. Led Quik Desktop from a blank canvas, hold 12 design patents, and helped shape GoPro’s first software subscription, now past 2.8 million subscribers. These days I run working sessions with the CEO and lead design on our next software platform.

    Steven sketching Quik’s video editing flows on a whiteboard The Quik Desktop editing interface GoPro founder and CEO Nick Woodman

  6. Now · San Diego

    Water world

    Outside of work you can find my wife, son, and I in our campervan at the beach surfing, or somewhere on a boat fishing, freediving, and spearfishing. I’ve also published a children’s book about the ocean called “Sebastian and the Seabass.”

    Steven surfing deep inside the barrel of a breaking wave Steven holding his young son on a center-console fishing boat Steven and two friends in camo wetsuits on a boat before a freedive off the coast

Where I've Been

Where this wild ride of life has taken me.

30 countries · 5 continents

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