Ton H.

Ton H.

Senior UI/UX Designer

Lead Hill, Arkansas, United States of America
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About Me

Ton is a Senior UI/UX Designer with 20+ years of experience in product design, UX/UI design, visual design, interaction design, prototyping, and front-end UI. He has led projects from a UX perspective, defining product requirements and functionality, navigation, and interaction principles of rich and complex interactive experiences. Ton was a part of Google for 7 years, leading a small design team to strategize, plan, design, and develop custom dynamic ads, as well as helping advertisers launch 600+ campaigns globally.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior UI/UX Designer
2021 - Present (4 years)
Remote
  • Creating and designing web-ready digital content to support development initiatives or projects.

  • Evangelizing UX/UI direction and adhering to project guidelines in executing solutions according to business needs.

  • Collaborating with the design team to ensure designs and deliverables are completed efficiently and on time.

McGraw Hill
McGraw Hill
Principal Product Designer of Interaction Design
2023 - Present (2 years)
Remote
  • Establishing and maintaining consistent digital complex content asset design patterns across portfolio, ensuring a cohesive and recognizable user experience.

  • Creating a practice that will result in complex learning assets with increased student motivation, improved comprehension, and better retention of educational content.

  • Collaborating across product management, product marketing, academic design, content licensing, user research, and technology to develop and deliver effective and engaging teaching and learning experiences (both print and digital).

  • Mentoring and training team members on interaction design principles and best practices, providing thought leadership across the organization.

Stellar Elements
Stellar Elements
Senior Experience Designer
2021 - 2023 (2 years)
Dallas, United States of America
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop an integrated design approach using the strengths of each specialization and maintaining a holistic perspective throughout the project to ensure high-quality work.

  • Presented creative and innovative design solutions to clients that clearly align with their goals and needs.

  • Provided constructive feedback and guidance to team members to foster professional growth and improve the team's overall performance.

IBM
IBM
Senior UX/UI Designer
2020 - 2022 (2 years)
United States of America
  • Led projects across development, design research, and product management to ensure solutions align with user needs and business goals.

  • Set the vision for design and helped to define user experience, designing flows, interaction patterns, and the interface.

  • Led the creation of interactive prototypes for a variety of devices.

  • Delivered presentations to stakeholders, business leaders, and development teams.

Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks
Senior UX Designer
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
United States of America
  • Led projects from a UX perspective, defining product requirements, functionality, navigation, and interaction principles of rich and complex interactive experiences.

  • Developed effective and impactful deliverables to communicate the UX strategy and rationale such as project plans, user research, personas, concept documents, task lists, workflows, information architecture, wireframes, page maps, interaction and behavior specifications, and visual design.

  • Utilized research to translate findings into tangible designs including heuristic reviews, usability testing, competitive product analysis, web metrics data, field research, quantitative surveys, user interviews, and persona development.

Verifone
Verifone
Lead UX/UI Designer
2018 - 2018
United States of America
  • Led, mentored, and worked collaboratively with engineers, product managers, executives, and other designers throughout the product development lifecycle.

  • Applied keen customer focus, a data-driven approach to design, and awareness of current and best practices for mobile and online UX design.

  • Designed the user flow for complex product interactions and use cases to make them easy to use.

  • Produced user flows, wireframes, user interface specifications, and final graphics.

Google
Google
Senior Interactive Designer
2011 - 2018 (7 years)
United States of America
  • Oversaw end-to-end incubation and implementation of Alpha and Beta products.

  • Designed and developed cutting-edge rich media display creative for web advertisers.

  • Created rough conceptualizations in the form of wireframes and finished production-quality artwork such as interface elements and icons.

  • Designed prototype tools and solutions to improve product serviceability that will engage with the engineers and program managers during the design, alpha, beta, scaled launch phase to improve product usability to launch these products.

  • Responsible for the technical relationship with partners.

  • United branding and user experience across a variety of platforms.

  • Led cross-functional teams in design, engineering, sales, and product management.

iControl Networks
iControl Networks
Senior Flash Engineer
2008 - 2010 (2 years)
United States of America
  • Led, mentored, planned, architected, and implemented Flash Lite applications and modular ActionScript code libraries.

  • Architected and implemented software interfaces between touchscreen UI and security systems.

  • Developed Flash and HTML widgets for web browsers and other desktop widget platforms.

  • Owned requirements generation, design, specification, coding, and debugging.

Dash
Dash
Senior Visual Design Architect
2007 - 2008 (1 year)
United States of America
  • Worked within a user-centered design process to support and focus design decisions for a California startup producing devices and software for in-car navigation systems.

  • Created rough conceptualizations in the form of wireframes and finished production-quality artwork such as interface elements and icons.

  • Simplified complicated information and presented it to users in an intuitive and appealing way.

Microsoft
Microsoft
XBOX 360 UI/UX Prototyper
2004 - 2005 (1 year)
United States of America
  • Designed and created all flash/graphic elements for XBOX 360 prototypes.

  • Developed and built XBOX 360 UI prototypes and created XBOX 360 UI demo and presentation.

  • Participated in design brainstorming sessions, design critique, and usability tests.

Portfolio

Senior Visual Design Architect - Dash Navigation
Senior Visual Design Architect - Dash Navigation

Dash comes up with a brand new take on portable navigation. The Dash Express portable navigation system combines two-way internet connectivity with GPS functionality, offering unparalleled performance in finding destinations and receiving accurate traffic updates in real time. Worked cross-functionally in design with the marketing and development team. Designed, validated, and confirmed UX/UI flow.

Senior Interactive Designer - Google
Senior Interactive Designer - Google

Responsible for the technical relationship with partners. Led cross-functional teams in design, engineering, sales, and product management. Launched over 600 Dynamic Ads campaigns globally. Within 3.5 years, designed a few hundred Dynamic Ads for 300+ clients and helped launched over 600 Google AdWords campaigns.

Lead UX Designer - Verifone
Lead UX Designer - Verifone

Worked collaboratively with engineers, product managers, executives, and other designers throughout the product development lifecycle. Produced user flows, wireframes, user interface specifications, and final graphics. Took on a consulting role during the summer of 2018. Designed a centralized app that helps manage all Verifone devices.

UX/UI Rapid Prototyper - XBOX 360 (1st Generation)
UX/UI Rapid Prototyper - XBOX 360 (1st Generation)

Developed and built XBOX 360 UI prototypes for Main Navigation, Home Menu, and XBOX Live feature. Created XBOX 360 UI demo and presentation.

Senior UI/UX Designer - Facebook Image Post & Ads
Senior UI/UX Designer - Facebook Image Post & Ads

Worked on advertising and marketing design projects. Facebook Ad was fun and challenging because of its limitations and constraints.

Education

AA, Visual Communication/Computer Animation and Multimedia
AA, Visual Communication/Computer Animation and Multimedia
The Art Institutes
1994 - 1996 (2 years)
BSc Computer Programming and System Analyst
BSc Computer Programming and System Analyst
University of Thai Chamber of Commerce
1989 - 1992 (3 years)