about PHIL
Who am I? I am a 20-year veteran of the Digital Product and UI / UX Design world with experience and versatility across multiple mediums and platforms. A highly collaborative design lead with hands-on experience planning, designing, developing, and shipping live-service game features, mobile / tablet / responsive app products, interactive museum installations, and deliverables in visual / motion / print / rich media formats. An experienced leader of cross-disciplinary in-person and remote teams – shipping successful creative campaigns and user experiences for Bungie, Microsoft, The Getty Center, Motorola, The Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI), IBM, Disney, ABC, Dell, Acer, The Huntington Library, HP and Intel.
For over 6 years, I was a UI / UX Design Feature Lead and Senior UI / UX Technical Designer on the live-service game Destiny 2 for Bungie. Leading a diverse UI / UX design and development team of 10-12 to scope, plan, design, and ship large-scale UI / UX features across 3 major releases (Lightfall, The Final Shape, Into The Light) including: The Director, Activity UI, Pathfinder Objective System, Featured Quests, Into the Light UI, and Activity Power & Difficulty Communication. As an IC, I worked on the design, prototyping, implementation, and shipping of in-engine UI features including: Cross Play, Sub-Class 2.0 (Stasis), Guardian Ranks, Lore Re-Design, Activity Intros, The Seasonal Hub, Title Screens for 3 major releases: The Witch Queen, The Edge of Fate, and Renegades, and Text Chat Support for Consoles.
For over 16 years before that, I was the acting Creative Director and UI / UX Design Lead at Red Card Studios – a local Seattle design agency I co-founded in 2001 – working hands on as well as managing teams of designers and developers to produce a wide variety of deliverables including end-to-end UI / UX designs (Sketch, Figma), responsive web products (HTML, JS, CSS, WordPress), mobile and tablet apps & games, animated motion graphics deliverables & product demos (Adobe Suite), social media advertising campaigns (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest), rich-media (Carousel advertising, Video, YouTube), print campaigns, and e-Learning modules (SCORM, LMS).
I have experience at every stage of the design process from working through sketches and specs with the client, to concept and flow documents, to wireframes and prototypes, through to managing a team to shipping products and features.
Roles: UI/UX Design Lead, Project Lead, Senior Product Designer, Digital Design Manager, Creative Director, Senior UX Designer, Senior UI Designer, Senior UI Technical Designer (Artist), Project Manager, Illustrator
Managing design for: Live-Service Games, Mobile / Tablet Apps, Responsive Web, Touchscreen Kiosks, Animated Marketing Campaigns, 2D Motion Graphics, e-Learning Courses, Rich Media and Social Media Marketing Campaigns (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube), Print Campaigns
Tools of the trade: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Flash / Animate, Adobe InDesign , Sketch, OmniGraffle, HTML, Javascript, OOP, CSS, WordPress, JIRA, TFS, Microsoft 365
Produced work for: Bungie, Microsoft, The Getty Center, Motorola, Disney, The Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI), IBM, Dell, Acer, ABC, The Huntington Library, HP, Intel, Community Transit