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
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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.
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.
Product Designer
2023, Hello Monday/DEPT
Product Design, Prototyping
B2C, AI, Mobile, Design Systems
My contributions involved:
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Product Designer
2024, Passion project
Ul, UX, Prototyping
B2C, Innovation, 0-1
Coming soon
09
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
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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
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