# James Key

> AI Product Designer at Google DeepMind

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jameskey

Experienced Visual Design Lead and UX Product Designer with a demonstrated history of UI design, design system creation and management, interaction design, deep cross-functional collaboration, and designing for LLM's. 

Creatively minded and well versed in all things UX:  prototyping, wireframing, illustration, typography, photography, A/V & digital arts. Honed skills working with most of the big players in the industry, designing at the cutting edge of technology today, and shaping the future of AI.

## Work Experience
### UX Visual Design Lead, AI Product Designer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
· Gemini / Model (AI Product Designer, Artifact Generation) •  2025
· Gemini / Peripherals (VisD Lead, Watch) • 2024 - 2025
· Gemini / Mobile app (VisD, iOS & Android) • 2023 - 2024
· Google Assistant (VisD Lead, Wearables) • 2022 - 2023

### Product Designer at Meta @ TEKsystems
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States

### UX Designer at Google Nest @ Synergis
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
· Designs across mobile, tablet, display and web to bring a unified and
superior smart home user experience to an extensive product line.
· Designs product features, creates storyboards, flows, prototypes,
presentation decks. Creates and owns design systems, componentry,
and key deliverables, strictly maintaining a visual and interactive brand aesthetic.
· Collaborates closely with engineers, multi-disciplinary designers, researchers
and stakeholders to create the best possible experience for users in an
expanding cross-functional family of innovative products.

### Lead Visual Designer at Apple Inc. @ Hogarth Worldwide
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
· Visual Design focused, creating powerful
cross-platform digital imagery for Apple’s retail product line.
· Quality Control Lead, reviewing and approving work of creative team to ensure 
precise aesthetic of brand visual design standards are met and delivered.
· Maintains design systems, documents process to serve as resource and
definitive style guides. Uses expert production skills to design for product
marketing and consistently create superior brand recognition.

### Production Designer at Apple Inc. @ Level Studios
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Production Artist @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
· Production of retail imagery and creative solutions for digital web
and print assets for in-house and related 3rd party marketing.
· Works directly as part of the in-house retail photo studio to ensure consistent
and engaging imagery meets company standards.
-Highlights visual details of product styles using color, composition, and
lighting to create a more compelling user experience within Google Store.

### Photo Retoucher @ SEPHORA
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
· Retouching and correction of catalog and advertising for a leading beauty and cosmetics company.

· Compositing and editing product photography, as well as retouching high fashion billboard and magazine imagery for digital and print.

### Lead Editor @ Microsoft
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | Greater Seattle Area
· Head of editing team responsible for selection, research and licensing
of imagery reaching over 3 million viewers daily.
· Manages file sharing systems and maintains digital asset library
for production use.
-Lead liason to international clients producing global daily content in
a fast-paced editorial environment.
· Governs the visual aspects of content, designs style guide and maintains
processes integral to the photojournalistic guidelines of the site.
· Conceptualizes ideas for image collections 
to promote viewer interest and drive site traffic to daily audience.

### Sound Designer @ Dos Rios Films
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012
· In charge of composition, sound design, foley art, engineering, mixing and producing music and audio for commercial, film and promotional videos. 

· Works closely with the creative director as advisor to any creative aspects of sound production.

### Production Designer @ Amazon
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Greater Seattle Area
· Production and organization of asset archive
dedicated to Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD.

· Creates and develops systems for image archive categorization and
file sharing with optimal interface integration and cross-functionality.

### Graphic Designer @ Noise Order Records
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008
· Creative designer of record packaging, cover art, and press release packets for record label artists.

· Responsible for press photography, identity and logo designs as well as web concepts, promotional artwork, advertising and limited edition print series.


## Education
### Design studies
Northumbria University

### Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Graphic Design/Photography
Rowan University

### Web Design
School of Visual Concepts


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/james-key-aa6a365
- Website: http://www.jamesmkey.com

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Last updated: 2026-02-23