Digital art director and product designer with 18+ years across agency and product—visual, UX, motion, and systems.
Led end-to-end design for enterprise clients including Amazon, Kaiser Permanente, and Seattle Kraken; now freelancing through Ninyo.design.
Digital Art DirectionProduct & UX DesignDesign SystemsMotion & InteractionAugmented Reality UIPrototypingVisual Design
Selected Work
Full portfolio at ninyo.design
AR 747 Retirement Tribute Experience — Delta — Case study
Mobile web AR tribute to a retiring Boeing 747 — archival flight data, pilot stories, farewell signatures, and livery skins for a Reserve card made from the fuselage metal.
Fine Hotels & Resorts — American Express — Case study
Luxury travel digital directories and interactive content — visual and UX design for premium hotel discovery.
Kraken Membership AR Experience — Case study
Immersive augmented reality journey for Seattle Kraken membership holders — a mystical Puget Sound adventure culminating in an exclusive first look at the new stadium before completion. Art direction, UX, character design, and motion with Aircards.
Work History
More experience listed in linkedin.com/in/ninyo
Ninyo.design (2025+) Freelance — Digital Art Director | Product Designer
Providing digital creative services, studio collaboration and partnership, and community-facing programs—design tools, local education, and open resources for creatives building their practice in the Kitsap and Seattle area.
Freelance digital creative services, studio collaboration, and community programs for Kitsap / Seattle area creatives.
DCGONE (2016–2025) Digital Art Director | Product Designer (Visual + Interactive + UX + Motion)
Led end-to-end product design across web platforms, internal tools, and digital experiences—including Augmented Reality. Designed user-centered experiences, collaborating with cross-functional teams of PMs and engineers. Produced design systems, UI kits, and interaction patterns for scalable products.
Led product design across web, internal tools, and AR—design systems, UI kits, and interaction patterns with PM and engineering partners.
Clients worked with through agency: Kaiser Permanente, Amazon, Puget Sound Energy, Seattle Kraken, Seabourn Cruiseline, L'Oreal, American Express (Fine Hotel & Resorts, Centurion), and Delta Airlines.
Mentor Creative Group (2015–2016) Interaction Designer (including UX & UI design)
Focused on designing responsive web apps, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and user flows. Partnered with developers in an Agile environment to ship production-ready experiences.
Drag&Drop Creative (2012–2015) Graphic/Web Designer
Primarily designed websites, business cabinets, book interiors, and logos for the local non-profit community. This also includes realestate, hygiene & heath, and lifestyle focused clients.
Revolution (2010–2015) Digital Designer
Designed marketing kits for corporate educational events and kiosks, mobile application screens, and logos for business groups and events. Clients: Brooks, T-Mobile, Amazon.
Jennergy (2009–2014) Graphic Designer
Designed multi-page print and web layouts and logos for small and large businesses, government, events, and organizations across Washington. Clients: Jefferson Healthcare, Kitsap Credit Union, American Lung Association, UW Medicine, American Red Cross.
Watson Furniture Group (2014) Graphic Designer
Designed multi-page print and digital product brochures—downloadable interactive PDFs and printed collateral—for full-sized furniture lines.
Kotis Design (2008–2009) Graphic Designer
Designed custom merchandise, brand collateral, and promotional product layouts for client swag programs.
Dimension 4 (2004–2006) Digital Drafter
Created line work for city schematics and city blocks over pencil scans, plus diagrams for military parts and combat vehicles. Worked in IntelliCAD and AutoCAD. Clients: Military.
Education
General Assembly Seattle (2015: Completed)
User Experience Research & Design
Art Institute of Seattle (2007–2009: Completed)
Graphic Design – Associates in Applied Arts
Olympic College (2004–2006: Completed)
Associates in Applied Arts
Tech Stack
AI Stack — Cursor (2025) (models: Composer + Grok, Opus, Fable), Elevenlabs (2023), Life (2024), Suno (2024), Higgsfield (2025) (models: NBP, Kling, Seedance, Seedream)
Figma (2019) (7 years total) — Product design, UI/UX, design systems, prototyping, user flows, and asset creationUI/UX, systems, prototyping
Adobe Creative Suite (2007) (19 years total) — Photoshop — photo manipulation, color grading, and web graphics; Illustrator — vector graphics, iconography, and logos; InDesign — multi-page layouts, print systems, and presentation design; After Effects — motion design, interface animation, and prototyping; Premiere Pro — video editing and lightweight capture; Podcast — audio production and podcast editingPhotoshop · Illustrator · InDesign · After Effects · Premiere Pro · Podcast
Front-End Languages (2011) — [HTML, CSS, Sass, PHP] Responsive UI, component-based design, and mobile-first principles
Sketch (2015: deprecated for Figma) — Product design, UI/UX, design systems, prototyping, user flows, and asset creation