Status:
Open to future opportunities

Toronto &
New York City

Josh Rayray is a designer specializing in crafting visual systems & experiences in consumer technology. His work ranges from building new products to evolving existing systems. Currently design at Airbnb. Previously at Hello Monday/DEPT, Jam3/Media.Monks, Engine Digital.

Josh Rayray is a designer crafting visual systems & experiences. His work spans building 0-1 consumer products to evolving existing systems. Most recently, he was at Hello Monday/DEPT working alongside Google & Microsoft's design team in New York City.

 Formerly at Media.Monks, Engine Digital, and Pivot.

Josh Rayray is a designer crafting visual systems & experiences. His work spans building 0-1 consumer products to evolving existing systems. Most recently, he was at Hello Monday/DEPT working alongside Google & Microsoft's design team in New York City.

 Formerly at Media.Monks, Engine Digital, and Pivot.

Josh Rayray is a designer crafting visual systems & experiences. His work spans building 0-1 consumer products to evolving existing systems. Most recently, he was at Hello Monday/DEPT working alongside Google & Microsoft's design team in New York City.

 Formerly at Media.Monks, Engine Digital, and Pivot.

Josh Rayray is a designer specializing in crafting visual systems & experiences in consumer technology. His work ranges from building new products to evolving existing systems. Currently design
@ Airbnb.

 

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Selected Projects

SW 06.24

Selected Projects

Selected Projects

01

A great Airbnb experience starts with the host.
As part of Airbnb's 2024 Winter release,
I helped craft the cohost network launch experience, enabling hosting even easier for thousands of hosts around the world.

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Designer
2024, Airbnb
Ul, UX, Visual Design
B2C

02

An effort to enhance YouTube's learning experience. Personal vision side project work complimenting YouTube's ongoing experiments with Generative AI across the product.

Product Designer
2023, Self-Initiated
Product Design, UI, Prototyping
B2C, AI

Project highlight:

Defined an opportunity and designed a feature from research to prototype

03

Google — Evolving a design system for Fitbit's millions of loyal users 

Partnering with the Google Fitbit UX team at Hello Monday/DEPT, I helped shape the vision for AI by designing visual concepts + interactions for Fitbit's new design language that required scalability across web, mobile, and future wearables.

Product Designer
2023, Hello Monday/DEPT
User Interface, Visual Design
B2C, AI, Design Systems

My contributions involved:

Evolved a design system that required strategic scalability for 32 Million users

Identified areas of opportunity that distill complex actions into usable interfaces

Defined and designed a vision for AI's role within Fitbit's ecosystem

Project under NDA

04

Microsoft — Making it easier to access personalized content at a glance

Working with the Microsoft product team, I helped modernize the look & feel of the Bing app, and prototyped visual concepts for how Generative AI shows up across the Bing home experience.

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Product Designer
2023, Hello Monday/DEPT
Product Design, Prototyping
B2C, AI, Mobile, Design Systems

My contributions involved:

02

Designed AI-focused visual concepts through multiple iterations

Created high fidelity prototypes that drove internal feature approval

Designed a widget system that is unique, contextual, and relevant for each user segment

Project under NDA

05

At Pivot, I was the #3 designer hire in the startup building a 0-1 product offering go-to market. Our goal was to earn trust among our first users. The work involved building a cohesive design language from scratch and launching features through rapid iteration.

pivotcover

Product Designer
2020, Pivot
UI, UX, Visual, Brand
B2C, E-commerce, 0-1

Project highlight:

Increased user adoption in 9 months with 500+ new subscribers monthly and expanded the product to 2 Canadian cities

06

At Media.Monks, I led the design for an internal project that aims to use emerging tech (Mixed reality) to reimagine how small businesses interact with their customers in the future. Our goal was to create an engaging experience and ship an MVP in 2 months.

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Experience Designer
2022, Jam3/Mediamonks
Ul, UX, Visual Design
B2C, Innovation, 0-1

Project overview:

Shipped a proof of concept prototype for a virtual web reality experience

07

Veron — Crafting a unified experience with a cohesive visual system

An effort to empower consumers for an opinionated product through a cohesive visual language.

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UI/Visual Designer
2022, Personal project
Interface, Motion, Brand
B2C

08

Flow OS — Building a focused oasis amidst the noise of the internet

Flow is a speculative operating system browser designed to create a more natural and fluid web experience. It achieves this by utilizing a spatial interface and an in-built large language model (LLM) that provides users with insights and recommendations, keeping them focused and reducing information overload.

spatialos

Product Designer
2024, Passion project
Ul, UX, Prototyping
B2C, Innovation, 0-1

Coming soon

09

Past and Future

Past projects

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A visual design system for a B2C brand

An AI-powered software aimed to help employees increase productivity

Redesigned a platform for Adidas to empower Black & Latinx Communities

An interactive learning tool that uses TensorFlow & Machine Learning

An improved interface design for Google Jigsaw’s new initiative

A proposed feature to scale a growing market for a major streaming service

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About

Josh Rayray (he/him) is a designer passionate about building inspired products and experiences alongside ambitious teams. Inspired by culture & technology, his work is influenced by human insights & a desire to simplify, evoke, and engage.

His design approach merges UX, prototyping, and product strategy with an eye for visual brand systems and emerging technologies.

His early background in film production informs his work as a designer — understanding the importance of narrative, emotion, and collaboration.

Josh Rayray is a designer crafting visual systems & experiences. His work spans building 0-1 consumer products to evolving existing systems. Most recently, he was at Hello Monday/DEPT working alongside Google & Microsoft's design team in New York City.

 Formerly at Media.Monks, Engine Digital, and Pivot.

Josh Rayray is a designer crafting visual systems & experiences. His work spans building 0-1 consumer products to evolving existing systems. Most recently, he was at Hello Monday/DEPT working alongside Google & Microsoft's design team in New York City.

 Formerly at Media.Monks, Engine Digital, and Pivot.

Josh Rayray is a designer crafting visual systems & experiences. His work spans building 0-1 consumer products to evolving existing systems. Most recently, he was at Hello Monday/DEPT working alongside Google & Microsoft's design team in New York City.

 Formerly at Media.Monks, Engine Digital, and Pivot.

Josh Rayray (he/him) is a designer passionate about building inspired products and experiences alongside ambitious teams. Inspired by culture & technology, his work is influenced by human insights & a desire to simplify, evoke, and engage.

His design approach merges UX, prototyping, and product strategy with an eye for visual brand systems and emerging technologies.

His early background in film production informs his work as a designer — understanding the importance of narrative, emotion, and collaboration.


 

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CV

2024
Airbnb
Designer

2023
Hello Monday/DEPT
Product Designer
Google & Microsoft


2022
Media.Monks (Jam3)
Experience Designer

2021
Engine Digital
Designer

2019
Pivot
Product Designer

2017
ESTI Consulting
Designer

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