# Colin Elliot > Staff Product Designer at Compass Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/colinelliot Designer. I specialize in producing compelling, well-crafted visual and interactive design with a clean and functional style. I drive product vision, and translate design insight into exceptional product experiences. I'm a dedicated user advocate and collaborative partner, capable of providing autonomous leadership to effectively support engineering, business, and organizational requirements. ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ Compass Jan 2020 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States Strategic product design and leadership for digital experiences at Compass. Platform-level design, interaction patterns, and connected product vision. ### UX Designer III, Alexa Smart Home @ Amazon Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Seattle User centric design and strategy for connected experiences across Amazon devices. ### Senior UX Designer @ Amazon Web Services Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area Creating world-class, user-centered design for AWS productivity applications. Directing the visual design and brand of unreleased and existing web and mobile applications and designing the UI architecture, interface, and interaction flow of new web and mobile applications. Conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, and prototypes etc. Translating business and user requirements into use cases and high-quality customer experiences. ### UX Designer @ Microsoft Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 OneDrive SharePoint (ODSP) team. Advocate for Microsoft design, working to shape product and marketing experiences. Collaborate on UX, research, optimization, brand, product design, marketing, and strategy. Evolve and enforce the Microsoft brand, communication style, and design standards across ODSP products and marketing. This was a vendor role. ### Senior Graphic Designer @ Electric Pen Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Produce bold, ambitious, exceptional visual design work for multiple clients. Translate business objectives into interactive design, user experience and content strategy. Execute and produce refined print work and mobile-first digital design. Develop wireframes and interactive prototypes. Collaborate with a diverse, enthusiastic and talented design team. Lead a team of junior designers, providing guidance and inspiration. Generate B2B/B2C engagement through research, insight and brand storytelling. ### Web designer + developer @ GCI Ad Agency Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Olympia, WA, USA Lead digital designer and dev. Working with clients from project discovery to launch and further development. Work includes UX Design, Wireframing, IA, Graphic Design, Illustration and presentation layer development: HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP. ### Middleweight Designer @ Dog Digital Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Glasgow Website and email design, creative leadership on several projects. Creative work with clients and senior designers. ### Designer @ Bourne Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 Graphic design + presentation layer development work. ### graphic / web design @ Curious Group Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 ### Technical Assistant @ Dell Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 Providing technical assistance by troubleshooting and repair of Dell's business customer machines. ### Freelance Graphic Designer @ Solution M Jan 2002 – Jan 2002 Print design work for varied clientele. 2002 ## Education ### BA (Hons) in Applied Graphics with Multimedia Glasgow Caledonian University Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 ### Creative Digital Technology in Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia Cumbria Institute of the Arts Jan 1997 – Jan 1999 ### Forres Academy ### Creative Mornings ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/colinelliot411 - Portfolio: http://www.colinelliot.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/colinelliot JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/colinelliot/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30