# Colin Johnston

> Product Design Lead •  Strategy, Design, Prototyping • Connecting dots to solve business problems and improve customer experience

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/colinjohnston

I'm a lead product designer that founders and executives trust to help solve business problems and improve customer experiences with strategy, research, and a proven design process. I help cross-functional teams succeed and deliver quality products.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ Kroger Technology & Digital
Jan 2022 – Present | Remote

### Product Design Lead - Experience Design @ Wells Fargo
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California
User-centered Design in an Agile Enterprise.  Delivering multi-device experiences for online and mobile banking, financial education, tools, and applications.

### Lead Designer @ Rollbar
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Product design, visual design, UX strategy, and brand development for leading SaaS product that helps make software development easier for everyone.

- Designed user interfaces, experience components, and interaction standards for existing and new features; drove projects from ideation to implementation. 
- Lead user-centered design practices: created personas, user journey maps, information architecture models, wireframes, prototypes, conducted research interviews, and shadowed users.
- Designed and produced marketing website and collateral; maintained brand identity standards.

### Lead Product Designer @ Solano Labs (Acquired by GE Digital)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Headed product design, marketing design, and user experience strategy for leading high-performance continuous integration and deployment platform.

- Created new product features via user research, wireframes and prototyping, through to visual design and front-end implementation; redesigned key user flows and interfaces. 

- Designed separate product brand identity for Solano CI; created brand guidelines to align visual identity across marketing, sales, and products; developed initial UI design system. 

- Led design presentations and collaborative working sessions with cross-functional teams in order to develop product strategy.

### Senior UX / Product Designer @ Moovweb
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
Visual/product design, UX leadership, and product strategy for Enterprise SaaS start-up.

- Developed user experience strategy and designed user interfaces for Moovweb's Enterprise  software product and developer-related web properties; oversaw front-end developers. 

-Advocated for a user research and usability testing practice within the organization. Sought input from users to inform design decisions.

### User Experience Designer @ Moovweb
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
User experience and interaction design for mobile software product and developer-related websites.


## Education
### Graphic Design
Academy of Art University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/colinleejohnston
- Portfolio: http://www.colinjohnston.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-25