Canada

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

XR Design

Product Design

Bachelor of Interaction Design

Brian Moon

Lead Product Designer

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Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Blender

Figma

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe After Effects

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

- Led design on various projects within Unity’s Accelerate Solutions organization
- Led the creation and maintenance of the organization’s design system and worked closely with development
- Responsibilities: user requirements gathering, task estimation, initial design framework setup,
design production guidance, and facilitate cross-collaboration between different team function
- Project platforms: Mixed Reality, digital twins, 3D configurators, and real-time 3D.
- Project sectors: entertainment, retail, crypto, automotive, IoT, games, and natural resources

I lead the design on a new hotel booking travel startup, HotelDirect. Technology plays a huge role in the evolution of this industry. There are many aspects you need to consider to get ahead of the big players (Expedia and Booking.com) in the market. As the company grew and our user-base scaled, it was important to have a design process that allows for a user-centered approach. I've worked closely with development, business, and marking and set product direction based on stakeholder and user feedback. Unfortunately, HotelDirect was one of many companies that were affected by COVID-19.

- Work closely with the founding team in a fast pace environment 
- Create design system from scratch using Figma
- Determine product direction based on user and stakeholder feedback
- Utilizing 3D to create a unique brand to stand out amongst competitors
- Using FullStory, Facebook & Google analytics, and Mixpanel to track success metrics

Lead design on multiple projects relating to IoT, enterprise, retail, and Augmented Reality. The job came with management/leadership opportunities and gained valuable insight working with other project leads within the company. 

- Lead a team of designers on an IoT project (Mayfield Robotics)
- Designed a Windows UWP and HoloLens application that solve complex business problems in the oil industry (Enbridge)
- Creating design systems from scratch using Sketch
- Showcase retail products utilizing AR Kit and AR Core (MEC)
- Collaborate on high level RFPs for potential projects

Worked closely with the co-founder in the Vancouver office on various startups including ones in the travel/hospitality and gaming space. - Helped launch a cyber security company: Cmd (https://cmd.com - with a total of USD $21.6 million in funding to date, the company’s last round was a USD $15 million Series B in 2019 that was led by Google Ventures). In 2021, Cmd was acquired by Elastic.

- Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive team
- Execute in a fast-paced and highly fluid startup environment where thought and initiative are valued
- Establish and update brand visuals and guidelines
- Collaborated on building early stage projects

Lead multiple IoT & enterprise projects, including Aircards (portable routers), Arlo (security cameras), ReadyNAS (Network Assisted Storage devices), Orbi (mesh network routers), and Insight (enterprise network management platform.

- Create interfaces for multiple mobile, desktop, and IoT devices
- Assist in creating a new design system and applying them to all NETGEAR products to create a consistent 
  and friendly experience
- Create user flows, wireframes, mockups based on requirements and validate through user testing
- Collaborate with multiple vendors in different locations
- Provide interactive prototypes, 3D motion graphics, and animations to demonstrate flows 
  and interactions

Worked with cross-functional team to deliver an internal HR platform for undisclosed global client. The challenge was to create a seemless recruitment management tool. Project was very successful and lead to multiple opportunities with the client.

- Design UI patterns that are appropriate for all device size (desktop, tablet, and mobile)
- Deliver wireframes and visual elements to the front-end developers
- Conduct competitive analysis on existing platforms in the market
- Quality assurance for the developed user interface

Worked closely with senior UX designer on data visualization and analysis platform for internal customers utilizing SAP Lumira and other tools. Very eye-opening to learn about how UX research is done at scale. Got the opportunity to perform user interviews and analyze results to define design direction.

- Assist in planning and rolling out internal reporting product
- User / business requirement research and provide design solutions
- Perform user interviews and analyze interview results
- Work within a team of developers in an Agile environment

Lead design on multiple mobile & web tools for fisheries science and research within North America. Worked remotely with client to create various ways to collect crowd sourced data. Understanding the motivations behind our users and providing them with solutions that catered towards their needs was key.

- Lead UI / UX design of 4 mobile applications and 2 website tools for anglers and hunters
- Created design system from scratch using Sketch and Figma
- Created user flows, wireframes, mockups, prototypes along with conducting user research and field 
   research, testing

- Lead designs for various UI / UX for websites and mobile applications

Brian Moon🇨🇦