# Dean Wong > Senior UX & UI Product Designer, specializing in Product Design, Research, DesignOps/Design Systems, and Design Strategy. Location: Greater Boston, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/deanwong I'm a Senior UX & UI Product Designer specializing in Product Design, DesignOps/Design Systems, and Design Strategy, who uses research, rapid ideation, and teamwork to tackle tough design problems, deliver compelling experiences, and drive business value. 12+ years delivering high-quality, modern and responsive experiences for both Web and mobile. Conceptualizes user-center designs with lean UX practices to deliver easy-to-use, engaging products that drive conversions and business value. Creative UXD Generalist who excels in both startups and enterprises, with deep knowledge of design and accessibility standards, design process, content and marketing strategy. Expertise in research, discovery, ideation, prototyping, mockups, wireframes, data visualization, personas and journey maps, IA, design systems, and documentation. Certified Usability Analyst, ADP List UX Career Mentor. CORE COMPETENCIES User Experience (UX) Design ▪ Product Design ▪ Digital Systems ▪ Digital Strategy ▪ Lean UX Practices ▪ Design Strategy ▪ Key Stakeholder Management ▪ Information Architecture ▪ Rapid Prototyping ▪ Design Leadership ▪ Product Ideation ▪ UX Research ▪ Interaction Design ▪ User-Centered Design ▪ Agile & Kanban Development Process ▪ Front-End Web Development ▪ Mobile First Design ▪ Usability Planning, Testing, and Analysis ▪ User Interface ▪ Data Visualization ▪ Visual Design ▪ SaaS, CRM, B2B, B2C ▪ Animation, Video, & Motion Graphics Techniques ▪ Tech Writing & Documentation ## Work Experience ### DesignOps/Product UX Designer, Enterprise Design Systems @ The Home Depot Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 Senior UXD Generalist for THD-branded Ant and MUI design systems in Figma, and documentation in ZeroHeight, used by 200+ designers and devs to create and build 200+ Enterprise app experiences for retail store associates. ▪ Research, design, engineer, evolve and enhance design system components, libraries, and documentation ▪Engage, train, and educate designers to increase awareness, knowledge, adoption, collaboration, and community around design systems across the org; Wrote articles on UX Craft, AI for Monthly Newsletter ▪ Define, measure, analyze, and synthesize OKRs for Designer Efficiency, Confidence, and Satisfaction to quantify and qualify the value of DesignOps and Design Systems to the business. ▪ Web Responsive & Mobile Product Design for Tool Rental self-service reservations and 2024 org-wide Tech survey. ### Principal UX Designer @ Monster Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Served as the Design System Lead for a multi-brand, Figma-to-React Global Design System for Monster brands and sub-brands. ▪ Engineered and launched a design system with design and code assets, fueling cross-functional collaboration and teamwork. ▪ Evangelized new system engagements and gathered feedback to ensure progress, hosting regular 1:1s, breakout sessions, and touchpoint reviews with stakeholders and early adopters. ▪ Established rapport and transparent communication with business partners to align priorities, increase requirements gathering initiatives, and build working relationships. ▪ Trained and educated team members on the new system to drive adoption, community, and engagement. Collaborated with developers and product managers to prioritize and schedule work ### Senior UX Designer @ Monster Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 Served as the Design System Lead for a multi-brand, Figma-to-React Global Design System for Monster and Randstad brands and sub-brands. ▪ Planned, prioritized, and managed design-side as well as identified design-side foundations and approach. ▪ Trained, educated, and evangelized on system components, system use, and the path to adoption. ### Senior UX Product Designer @ Second Half Finance, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Boston Area Led the UX design for an InsurTech startup building an app for retirement savings via a consumer marketplace for micro-annuities. ▪ Designed and delivered an interactive prototype, brand identity, and marketing collateral through design leadership, lean UX, and agile methodologies to secure millions in funding and partnerships with major insurers. ▪ Ideated, designed, and rapidly prototyped a mobile first and responsive web app in Sketch, Zeplin, Figma, Axure Pro, and Invision. ### Senior UX Designer @ Track Information, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area Led the UX design for a startup consumer Big Data app to track all aspects of life including money, health, and home. ▪ Defined and refined the end-to-end product experience via continuous collaboration, reviews, and testing. ▪ Conducted research, user testing, journey maps and personas, and iterated on the design to drive product direction and amplify the apps design for a Millennial target market. ### UX/UI Consultant @ Acadiasoft Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Norwell, MA Digitized and streamlined a manual process for signing agreements, explored designing for trade compression, and improved existing app workflow automation and navigation for a late-stage FinTech Collateral Management Platform. ▪ Interfaced with internal and external stakeholders, representing the world’s largest banks and financial institutions, to gather requirements and review progress in an effort to digitize a long-form paper agreement process. ▪ Conducted research, contextual inquiries, and interviewed stakeholders to understand the process, workflow, potential gaps, and pitfalls in getting to an executed agreement. ### UX/UI Engineer @ Salsify Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Boston, MA UX, UI, and visual design for an eCommerce Product Content Management Platform used by leading brands such as Amazon, Walmart, and Hamilton Beach. ▪ Created an MVP dashboard, enabling customers to see the status of each product's content stream, improving efficiency and quality for their product content in the recruitment industry. ▪ Interviewed stakeholder and current customers to understand pain points and find improvements to streamline tasks in their workflow. ▪ Designed and evolved features to meet user needs vs. wants, and led the early phases of a responsive app redesign with a focus on usability, research, and methods. ### UX Consultant @ Savant Systems Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Hyannis, MA Led the design of Savant.com, the organization’s first B2B eStore, and contributed to the redesign of the home automation control app for mobile and tablet. ▪ Created a site design that featured ease-of-use, product features and benefits, and an easy path to purchase materials for certified dealers and installers which resulted in a 54% rate of adoption by their dealer network in the first three months after launch. ▪ Led the redesign of the Savant.com company site and managed outside vendors for site development and production of motion video integration. ### Principal UX Designer @ Compass Aging Services Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Framingham, MA MVP Web site and print collateral, UX design leadership, research, and ideation on a B2C product offering senior life planning tools and resources to seniors and their families. ### Principal UX Designer @ Quant5 Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA Data visualization and design ideation on a B2B app that sought to offer Big Data insights through Predictive Analytics to optimize a business's targeted marketing to consumers. Gained incubator experience with an integrated team, and design mentoring a junior designer. ### Senior UX Designer @ OurStage Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Chelmsford, MA Conducted user research, surveys, and usability testing with client customers designed music contest pages, and led a redesign of a musician's online resume, aka, Electronic Press Kit (EPK) for a B2C site for independent musicians to market their talent, compete for cash prizes, and find fame and community. ### Senior UX Designer @ Bullhorn Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 Conducted field studies and UX research, created personas, and designed features and enhancements at a SaaS ATS platform. Design lead on a special projects team that explored the use of ATS metadata to create new revenue streams, one of which eventually launched, Bullhorn Reach. ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Journalism, Creative Writing Northeastern University ### Continuing Education in Sketching, Drawing, Painting (Watercolor), Composition Cotuit Center for the Arts ### Continuing Education in Graphic Design, Illustration, Adobe software Massachusetts College of Art and Design ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/deanwong - Portfolio: http://www.deanwong.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/deanwong JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/deanwong/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31