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Status:
Open to freelance &
new grad '24 opportunities.
Toronto &
New York City
Hi, I'm Josh — a designer crafting intuitive interfaces & interactions for consumer-facing experiences.
Most recently, I was at Hello Monday/DEPT working alongside Google & Microsoft's product design team in New York City.
Formerly at Media.Monks, Engine Digital, and Pivot.
Hi, I'm Josh. I'm a product designer focusing on consumer products and interactive experiences.
Most recently, I was at Hello Monday/DEPT working alongside Google & Microsoft's product team.
Formerly at Media.Monks, Engine Digital, and Pivot.
Hi, I'm Josh — a product & visual designer crafting experiences for consumer facing technology companies. Most recently, I was at Hello Monday/DEPT working alongside Google & Microsoft's product team. Formerly at Media.Monks, Engine Digital, and Pivot.
Hi, I'm Josh — a product & visual designer crafting experiences for consumer facing technology companies.
Most recently, I was at Hello Monday/DEPT working alongside Google & Microsoft's product team. Formerly at Media.Monks, Engine Digital, and Pivot.
Hi, I'm Josh — a designer crafting intuitive interfaces & interactions for consumer-facing experiences. Most recently, I was at Hello Monday/DEPT working alongside Google & Microsoft's product design team in New York City. Formerly at Media.Monks, Engine Digital, and Pivot.
01
I partnered with Google at Hello Monday/DEPT working with the Fitbit team. I helped shape the vision for AI by evolving Fitbit's design language to support the goal of empowering everyone to live a healthier, more active life.
2023
New York CIty
B2C, AI, Design Systems, Tech
Product, Visual, UI, Interaction
My contributions involved:
Evolving a design system that required strategic scalability for 32 Million users
Creating buy-ins among the design team by aligning with key stakeholders
Defining and designing a vision for AI's role within Fitbit's ecosystem
Identifying areas of opportunity that distill complex actions into usable interfaces
Project under NDA
02
Microsoft
Working with the Microsoft product team, I helped prototype a new vision for Bing poised to improve user engagement. This involved integrating new AI features set to release in the next year.
2023
New York CIty
B2C, AI, Mobile, Design Systems
Product, Visual, UI, Prototyping
02
My contributions involved:
Crafting a 0-1 feature that required strategic adoption of 2+ billion existing users
Designing AI-led interactions through multiple iterations
Designing high fidelity prototypes that drove internal feature approval
Project under NDA
03
Pivot
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.
2019-2020
Canada
B2C, Ecommerce, Tech
Product, Visual, Brand, UI
My contributions involved:
Designing a foundational, modular design system from scratch that enables the team to iterate efficiently at early stage
Shipping 4 MVPs with a bias-to-action, refined iteratively through customer feedback loops
Increasing user adoption in 9 months, bringing in 500+ new users monthly, and expanding the product to 2 Canadian cities
04
MediaMonks
At Media.Monks, I was part of 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.
2021
Toronto, Canada
B2C, Innovation, Vision
Interaction, Mixed Reality, UI
My contributions involved:
Leading the translation of ambiguous scopes into actionable tasks, resulting in a focused design process
Working closely with a PM to determine optimal project scopes and make informed trade-offs that balance quality and delivery speed
Pairing with 2 developers to assess feasibility and ensure high-quality implementation
Shipping an end-to-end spatial experience within 2 months, utilizing AR + 3D, and live deployment to an internal team of 200+
05
Past and Future
Past projects
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
06
From Manila to Saskatoon to Toronto to New York
I am a designer committed to building inspired products & experiences alongside ambitious teams. I believe in combining research, intuition, and aesthetics as core drivers of great products.
My journey spans a move from a country with temperatures ranging from 30°C to -30°C, joining a tech startup in its first year, to flying to New York to help design consumer experiences with Google & Microsoft.
Recently, I've been drawn to various problem spaces within AI, productivity, e-commerce, & consumer tech.
Raised on the web, I'm motivated by making a positive impact on how people interact with technology.
07
CV
2023
Hello Monday/DEPT
Product Designer (Intern)
Google & Microsoft
2022
Media.Monks (Jam3)
Experience Designer (Intern)
2021
Engine Digital
Designer (Intern)
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