# Haewon Kim

> Senior Visual Designer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/haewon

I'm Haewon🙋🏻‍♀️, a visual designer passionate about creating impactful user experiences. With 8+ years of digital design expertise and 5+ years in web experience based in New York City and the Bay area, I transform unique ideas into captivating visuals, connecting consumers to meaningful services, and helping brands achieve their goals.

## Work Experience
### Digital Product Designer @ MANSCAPED
Jan 2023 – Present | San Diego, California, United States

### Senior Visual Designer @ BAUNFIRE
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Jose, California, United States
Visual Design: Led visual workshops and proposed various concepts that best suited clients as well as executed the design process and expanded concepts into strong unique design ecosystems

Website Content Strategy: Strategized content by clarifying business’ objectives and goals

QA & Communication with Dev: Identified problems (not being responsive, bugs, integrations and more) and supported Dev to fix those issues in order to cultivate an effective and user-friendly environment

Website audits and research: Audited the website’s usability and presented guidance to enrich the 
user experience (Optimized broken links, user flows, navigation, and followed ADA compliant regulations)

### Freelance Visual Designer, UX/UI Designer @ Freelance, self-employed
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area
Based on my skills in Branding, UI design, and Visual design, I've been working as a freelance designer who tells bold stories that add value to brands. Working across the web, prints, photos, and videos, I've been providing seamless brand experience to start-ups and local businesses.
- Art Direction for SNOWFOX Restaurant.
- Branding Design for Pangaea Ultima, Mixtape Seoul.
- Website development for Soulo NYC, Pique Marketing, The Jalja, PPE Buddy.
- E-commerce Jewelry Photography Campaigns for Jangmi Jewelry.

### Senior UX/UI Designer @ Digital Artistry Marketing
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Brooklyn, New York, United States
Team Management: Give creative art directions to the design team, execute design sprints, and manage teamwork.
Website audits and redesign: Clarify the old website’s flaws and challenges that users were facing by analyzing data, and present effective solutions with an enhanced IA, wireframe, and visual design.
Marketing Collaterals: Leverage user-centric design strategy in developing marketing content to maximize the ROI. This entails conceptualizes banners, email, social media channels, and landing pages for clients.
Visual Design: Direct the overall creative content in the visual design aspect and bring feedback to the team to align graphics, concept, and tone to the client brand style.

### UI Designer / Visual Designer @ Raycon Global, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
As a lead designer, I was responsible for product and visual design so that Raycon could be positioned as a unique and distinctive brand. I designed the interface of the first official website which allowed the web visitors to absorb the characteristics of the brand. By analyzing data of user journeys and tasks, I continuously developed interfaces and UX to make their shopping intuitive and fast. I planned content strategies through analysis of specific target audience preferences. I was directly involved in pre-production, photo/video shoot, professional image retouching, and editing from the conceptual mood board to visual design to producing the collateral of digital marketing.

### UX / UI Designer and Motion Graphic Designer @ Design Silverfish
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Jongro-gu, Seoul, Korea
As a Junior UX / UI designer, I was responsible for planning user flow and visual interface design for interactive applications which was mainly displayed for media unpacking and media trade shows like CES and IFA. i developed ideas and project proposals based on market research to provide appropriate solutions for clients' brand. Another specific responsibility was to generate animations to tell bold story of products and help to establish a dynamic media application.

### Motion Grahpics Assistant / Photographer @ HMART
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | 165 chubb ave, Lyndhurst, NJ
As a motion graphics designer and photographer, I was responsible for producing advertisements video and content about Korean food which is emerging globally. I produced and distributed weekly sale animations and short seasonal themed animations, which are advertised in all Hmart locations. I also worked closely with marketing departments to shoot recipe videos and interviews which were distributed in social media. As the main photographer of the company, I generated high-quality product images 10-20 every week, and took sketched scenes of various company events.

### Watercolor instructor @ Design Star Art Portfolio Institute
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | 122, Wausan-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea
- Helped students complete their painting projects.
- Provided assistance during portrait, still-life, and watercolor lectures.
- Tutored art students by developing their painting skills.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Media design
Dongduk Women's University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/designbyhaewon
- Portfolio: https://www.haewonkim.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29