# David Kennedy > Product Designer, Reality Labs @ Meta | Ex-Apple Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/davidkennedy I’m a Product Designer with a strong passion for App Design, 3D, AR/VR, craft, quality and a deep understanding of technology. Originally starting off my career as an Engineer with a Computer Science Degree, I was that pesky engineer designing UI in photoshop before UI/UX designer was a common job description. Eventually I transitioned into full time design and when the App Store first came out, I focused on designing native apps and haven’t looked back. My technical background allows me to stay close to the technology making my designs practical and realistic. I love all things design: grids, typography, bold colors, intuitive UI, 3D interactions, animation and simple, clean and minimal aesthetics but believe the most powerful thing about design is how it works to solve a user’s problem and deliver an amazing experience. I’m at my best when there is a big problem to solve for and love to distill the complex down into something simple yet powerful. In addition to my design skills, I have leadership, business and engineering experience enabling me to collaborate and communicate with all stakeholders easily and effectively. My approach is calm, fun, humble, collaborative and can work independently or as part of a team. Originally from Melbourne, Australia but currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA with my wife and two kids. https://www.davkenn.com ## Work Experience ### Product Designer, Reality Labs @ Meta Jan 2025 – Present | Burlingame, California, United States ### Freelance Product UI/UX Designer / Founder @ Dangerous Pixels Jan 2010 – Present | Melbourne, Australia Freelance Product UI/UX Designer specialising in apps & video games. ### Product and Design Lead @ The People Spot Jan 2022 – Present | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ### Product Designer (Freelance) @ Havona Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Melbourne, Australia (Remote) Havona is a portfolio and marketplace platform for artists. Product, UI/UX & Visual design of the native mobile apps and website. ### Product Designer @ Apple Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Cupertino, California App Store, Apple Arcade and Game Center ### Senior UX Designer (Contractor) @ Itty Bitty Apps Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Melbourne, Australia Working as part of a mobile app design & development team out on site at AGL, one of Australia’s largest gas and electricity companies, to design & build a transformative & new flagship mobile app experience. As a senior member of the team, he is responsible for the UX Design (and supporting engineers through to execution) of the hero feature of the new app: usage for smart and basic meters, allowing customers to check their energy usage in ways not before possible with the previous app. ### Experience Design Manager, Strategic Capabilities @ Deloitte Australia Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Melbourne, Australia As an Experience Design Manager for the Strategic Capabilities division, the main responsibility was to lead UX and Service Design practices for the “Connect By Deloitte” product in addition to designing and building a Deloitte Design System based off Google’s Material Design. ### UX Manager @ Suncorp Group Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Melbourne, Australia Leading and managing the UX design team working on the customer facing website & mobile apps for more than 15 brands across insurance and banking including Suncorp, AAMI, GIO and Apia, some of Australia’s largest brands. Completed large scale website redesigns of AAMI, GIO & Suncorp websites (content and responsive design) including personalised experiences on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and substantial updates to the AAMI mobile app for iOS and Android. Grew the team from 4 to 12 UX designers and established new ways of working including lean UX, service design, in-house usability testing, standardisation of tools, style-guides, digital assets and the adoption of Human Centred Design (HCD) across the organisation. ### Senior UX Designer @ Suncorp Group Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Melbourne, Australia Using a customer research led approach with strategy, process, customer journey mapping, frameworks, design patterns, style guides, usability testing, wire-framing, prototyping and visual design on both responsive websites and native mobile apps for iOS and Android. Integral part in developing content strategy and UX processes. Mentoring junior UI/UX designers in the team, helping them build their skills across a number of disciplines. Key projects included a redesign of the AAMI mobile app for iOS & Android, and design optimisations and A/B testing of eCommerce websites for both sales and service, with one optimisation resulting in a claim online increase of 168%. ### UI Designer & Developer @ Affirm Software Group Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 | Melbourne, Australia Front-end UI Designer and web developer for their document automation workflow product ‘Revolve’, in addition to visual design of sales/marketing content and customer facing website. ### Java Programmer (Contract) @ Barclays Global Investors Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | San Francisco USA and London UK Java developer on an internal application in San Francisco and then on the iShares.net web application in London. ### Software Developer @ Spatial Vision Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 | Melbourne, Australia Designer, ColdFusion and Java developer. Worked on several large and small web based geospatial-enabled (mapping) applications for state governments in addition to internal web based products for Spatial Vision. ### Web Developer @ Affiliates.net Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 Designer, ColdFusion and Java Developer. Developed web based applications for Essendon Airport Auctions and Mannway Transport in addition to other client websites. ### Tutor @ RMIT University Jan 2001 – Jan 2001 Responsible for tutoring a class of approximately 12 students for Client Server Architecture, Visual Basic, SQL and database interaction. ### Web Developer @ Austin Health Jan 2000 – Jan 2000 Responsible for designing and developing the website for the Department of PET and Nuclear Medicine. ## Education ### Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Computer Science RMIT University ### Parade College, Bundoora ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/davkenn - Portfolio: https://www.davkenn.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/davidkennedy JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/davidkennedy/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13