I’ve 20+ years of experience in front-end tech and UX/UI digital design experience. As a former news reporter/journalist with a pre-professional background in the restaurant business, I made the early leap to tech starting out as a content developer, and later segueing to UX Design where I’ve designed and built products for consumers and Enterprise businesses, for both mobile and the Web, and created marketing collateral and design systems in industries like Mainstream Media, Business Services, Home Automation (IoT), FinTech, InsureTech, Big Data, Independent Music, Recruitment, and Retail.

Here’s My CV on LinkedIn . I’m always up for interesting conversations. Reach out to me anytime at dean + @ + deanwong + .com
Current Design Stack
Figma, Slack, Git, Storybook, Supernova, Zero Height, JIRA, Confluence
Design-Specific Skills & Expertise
- User-Centered Design
- Design Thinking, Leadership, Strategy
- Design (DPM) Process
- Information Architecture
- User Experience Design
- User Interface Design
- Interaction Design
- Visual Design
- Product Ideation
- Continuous Requirements Gathering
- Mobile & Responsive Design
- Browser Standards
- Brand Identity
- Lean UX Methods
- Metrics & Measurement
- Design Systems
- Agile Design Process, Planning, Execution
- Information Graphics
- Data Visualization
- Personas & Journey Maps
- Wireframes & Schematics
- Flowcharts & Workflows
- LoFi/HiFi Visual Mockups
- Motion Animation & Video Experience
- Interactive Prototyping
- Pitch Decks
- Presentation Visualizations
- Storyboarding & Storytelling
- Startups: Stealth Mode, Early/Mid/Late Stage
Key Knowledge Areas
- UX & UI
Deep experience defining The User Experience from a user-centered approach, and designing The User Interface - Design Systems
Create, maintain, curate, and evolve design system components, architecture, libraries, and tooling. Comprehensive guidelines and usage documentation. Educate and train designers to build a systems-thinking, collaborative community. Research, measure, and gather metrics regularly to support road map, value to designer-users, and more importantly, value to the business in increasing product design process efficiencies and brand UX consistency - User Research
Moderated and unmoderated user studies, quantitative and qualitative research, contextual inquiry, field studies, usability test planning, execution, analysis, and reporting, candidate sourcing, crafting user surveys, studies, and questionnaires - Usability Expertise
H.F.I. Certified Usability Analyst, Forrester Research Certified Expert Web Site Review Methodology - Accessibility Expertise
a11y standards, Section 508, ADA, WCAG, visual, audio, cognitive, physical - Product Management Expertise
Story & Epic creation, story-writing, pointing, and grooming. Specifications, business requirements, training, briefs, guides and guidelines, DPM, BPM, Agile, JIRA, Confluence, Aha!, Storybook, Supernova - Front-End Dev Experience
Inspector, HTML/CSS, javascript, markdown, modern browser standards, Mobile & Responsive Web, Git, Bootstrap, Material, React, GitLab, WordPress, Drupal, Rails - Content Development & Writing Experience
Professional background in Journalism (Daily Print, Broadcast) and Creative Writing, writing for Product, Marketing, Business - Industry Experience
Enterprise, Consumer, SaaS, b2b, b2c, CRM, IoT, Business Intelligence, Big Data, Consumer Data, FinTech, InsureTech, Journalism, Print and Broadcast, Business Services, Independent Music, Senior Life Planning, Recruitment, ATS, Service Industry, Customer Service, Restaurant Industry, Residential Real Estate (Licensed MA Sales Agent) - Design Apps
Figma, Miro (Adobe, Sketch, Axure Pro, Invision)
TL;DR: I’m a UXD Generalist who has the ability to play across the field, or specialize down for a specific need depending on the project scope, role, and requirements.