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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. 

 

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Selected Projects

SW 12.23

Selected Projects

Selected Projects

01

Google

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

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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

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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

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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+

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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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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.

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CV

2023
Hello Monday/DEPT
Product Designer (Intern)
Google & Microsoft

2022
Media.Monks (Jam3)
Experience Designer (Intern)

2021
Engine Digital
Designer (Intern)

2019
Pivot
Product Designer

2018
ESTI Consulting
Designer

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