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About
Hi, I'm Brian.
I'm a UX Designer and Design Leader located in Denver.
Throughout my career I have been involved in every aspect of product design. I'm familiar with conducting user research, developing design strategy, building interaction and visual design systems, working on the front lines with PMs and Devs, in addition to communicating and working with executive management.
My main focus has been designing interactions for mobile and wearable form factors, but I spend a lot of time thinking about how any design scales from small to large form factors. I have experience designing for Android and iOS smart phones, tablets and smart watches..
I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing companies and people to deliver quality products to over 100,000,000 users worldwide for brands such as Moto 360, Skype, Skype for Business, Skype Qik, Microsoft Lync, and MassRoots. -
Experience
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Director, Design & User ExperienceDenver, COMay 2016 - Present (10 years 1 month)Established a UX discipline and recruited a high performing product design team. Managed and mentored junior and senior level designers. Led the product design, research, design strategy/operations functions of the company. Worked closely with executive staff, product management and engineering to inform, direct and guide the team using a User Centered Design process. Defined a fresh new design language and interaction pattern library while redesigning the iOS and Android apps. Provided creative direction for the rebranding of the company.
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Principal Interaction DesignerSunnyvale, CAMay 2015 - Oct 2015 (5 months)Led the interaction design on the Moto 360 smart watch for 2015
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Senior Interaction DesignerPalo Alto, CASep 2014 - May 2015 (8 months)Led the interaction design on Skype 5.x for Android and set the foundation for the 6.x redesign by mapping Skype's feature set to and converging it with both Google's Material Design and Microsoft's Modern design language
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Interaction Designer, AndroidPalo Alto, CAAug 2011 - Sep 2014 (3 years 1 month)Led the interaction design on Skype 3.x and 4.x for Android and Skype Qik on Android, iOS and Windows Phone
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Sr. Manager, User ExperienceGoTV NetworksSan Diego, CAFeb 2011 - Aug 2011 (6 months)Managed a team of 2 visual designers supporting 5 product managers across 20+ products on various mobile platforms including Android, iOS, Blackberry, Brew, and J2ME.
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Sr. UX DesignerSan Diego, CAJun 2008 - Feb 2011 (2 years 8 months)Led the design of an award winning touch screen insulin pump for type 1 diabetics and provided a full range of UX activities from research and interaction design to final UI design and validation.
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User Experience EngineerSan Diego, CASep 2007 - Jun 2008 (9 months)Conducted usability research, focus groups, heuristic evaluations, and provided validated suggestions for improving the user's experience of DivX's products. Provided interaction design support to Engineering and utilized a full range of UX activities and methods.
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Head of Design & ProductDataCoachSan Diego, CAMar 2002 - Apr 2008 (6 years 1 month)Led product design and development for all DataCoach products. Managed a team of designers and software developers located in San Diego, LA, and Oslo, Norway to develop DataCoach software applications.
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User Interface DesignerSan Diego, CAAug 2004 - Mar 2007 (2 years 7 months)Designed user interfaces, interaction wireframes, concepts, prototypes, and final art for BREW, J2ME, and Windows Mobile-based mobile device applications.
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Awards
2013 MDEA Bronze Winner - t:slim Insulin Pump | 2013 MDEA Readers Choice - t:slim Insulin Pump
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Affiliations
IxDA, UPA
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Skills
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@brianbureson, member since 2011