Rowland Brown

Product Designer

Seattle, Washington, United States21 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in transforming complex problems into elegant design solutions.
Proven track record in leading design for major tech companies.
Strong background in mentoring and team building.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Designer with extensive experience in Gaming, Virtual Reality, and Enterprise Software.

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Other Skills

PrototypingRapid PrototypingGraphic DesignArt DirectionInteraction DesignAdobe Creative SuiteUser Interface DesignUser ExperienceDesign PatternsConcept DesignUser ScenariosVisual DesignUser-centered DesignInformation ArchitectureDesign Management

About

Product Designer with an eye for innovation and pixel perfection. I have spent my career as a creative designer working on a broad range of projects, including web, gaming, messaging, mobile, wearables, enterprise, and operating systems across various technology platforms. I value craft and come from a traditional design background, combining rapid prototyping, interaction, motion, and visual design to transform complex problems into elegant solutions. With my extensive experience working in partnership with engineers, executives, and marketing teams, I know how to ensure user needs are aligned with business goals. As a principal-level designer, I strive to identify problems and new opportunities, mentor fellow designers, foster a fun and successful team, perfect my craft, improve the design process and tools, and be a trusted cross-functional partner. Specialties: Art Direction, Product Design, User Experience Design ( UX ), Graphic Design, Interaction Design ( IA ), Game UI Design, Device, UI Design, Design Management, Concept & Visioning, Rapid Prototyping, Wireframing, Android Development (Front end design/code), iOS Development (Front end design/code), Motion Design, Agile, Lean UX, and other new trendy names for design roles. Software: Figma, Origami, Sketch, Framer, Adobe Creative Suite, Android Studio, xCode, Silverlight/WPF XAML- Expression Blend, Flash/Action Script, MSOffice, Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, and HTML / CSS.

Experience

21 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 3 mos

Current Experience

Netflix

Product Designer

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · United States · Remote

Working as a product designer on Netflix Games Platform 👾

Microsoft

Senior Lead Designer

Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs · Remote / Redmond · Remote

Lead designer for the Teams mobile core products.

Intel corporation

Art Director / Senior Designer

Feb 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hillsboro, Oregon

Working as Art Director / Senior Interaction designer on a broad range of mobile, wearables, and connected experiences for Intel's New Devices Group (NDG). My responsibilities include setting and overseeing visual language and direction for projects, from concept to product.

Zendesk

Sr. User Experience Designer

Oct 2012 – Feb 2013 · 4 mos · San Francisco

Making the Zendesk experience beautifully simple.

Artefact

2 roles

User Experience Designer - San Francisco

Dec 2011 – Oct 2012 · 10 mos

A creative consultancy focusing on strategic innovation and next generation user experiences for consumer devices and environments.
Spent my time working on Concept Creation, Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Visual Design, RITE Studies and Vision Concepts/Videos for clients like Microsoft, Google, Xbox, Sonosite, HP, RIM, Sandia National Labs, Samsung, etc.
http://www.artefactgroup.com/#/content/artefact-expands-to-san-francisco

User Experience Designer - Seattle

Apr 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos

A creative consultancy focusing on strategic innovation and next generation user experiences for consumer devices and environments.

Microsoft

2 roles

Visual Experience Designer (Live Labs)

Dec 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos

Visual Experience Designer for the Live labs group. Created a visual language for the Pivot application that was adapted to web, print, and video applications. Worked side by side with developers to write and style WPF XAML resources. www.getpivot.com

User Experience Designer (Xbox)

Oct 2004 – Dec 2008 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Microsoft, Entertainment Experience:
Worked as UI designer on multiple product releases/updates for Xbox, Zune, and Games for Windows Live. Acted as XUI tool team design production lead, overseeing a team of 5 members.
www.xbox.com | www.zune.net | www.gamesforwindows.com