# Michael Xavier

> Creative Designer | UI/UX Design | Visual Design Expert | Branding & Graphic Design

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelxavier

Visual/UX Designer specializing in brand identity refinement, seamless UI/UX design, and user-centered solutions. I craft compelling user experiences for diverse clients and startups, envisioning intuitive user journeys, defining UI/UX specifications, and creating wireframes and prototypes using Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and other tools. I actively leverage AI-powered features—such as Photoshop Generative Fill, Figma AI, and design automation tools—to streamline workflows, enhance visual output, and accelerate prototyping. Passionate about boosting user engagement and effectively communicating brand values through smart, thoughtful design.

## Work Experience
### Lead UI/UX Designer @ ZiaFlow
Jan 2026 – Present
• Conducted user research and client workshops to align design strategy with business goals and user needs, improving usability and satisfaction.  	
• Built scalable visual systems, ensuring brand consistency across multiple projects and platforms.
• Collaborated with developers to translate designs into functional interfaces, providing UI specifications and guidance.
• Conducted user research and usability testing to inform design decisions and improve user satisfaction

### Sr. Visual Designer @ ZiaFlow
Jan 2025 – Present
•  Spearheaded user-centric website and UI design for seamless interactions.
•  Utilized AI tools such as Midjourney and ChatGPT to enhance design efficiency, generate creative concepts, and streamline content workflows.
•  Oversaw code flow for smooth integration.
•  Created user experience visions and detailed UI specifications, wireframes, and prototypes.
•  Maintained visual frameworks for consistent brand identity.
•  Designed engaging social media content leveraging AI-assisted design tools.

### Creative Designer | UI/UX Design | Visual Design Expert | Branding & Graphic Design @ WORK.CREATE.DESIGN
Jan 2011 – Present | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

### Graphic Designer @ The Shipping Store
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
• Design and execute digital, print, and physical creative assets while maintaining consistent branding across platforms such as Amazon, the company website, and additional digital channels.
• Utilize AI-powered design tools to create high-quality product images, mockups, and enhanced visuals for marketing and e-commerce use.
• Develop A+ Content and design branded storefronts on Amazon to elevate product presentation and drive customer engagement.
• Collaborate with the Senior Graphic Designer and Creative Design Manager to support creative needs across various departments.
• Manage and track projects using Asana to ensure all deliverables are completed on time and meet brand standards.
• Edit and retouch photos to meet high-quality standards and align with brand aesthetics.
• Work closely with the Senior Graphic Designer to adapt designs based on creative feedback and evolving project needs.
• Assist in preparing marketing assets for campaigns, sales promotions, and product launches to support company growth.
• Support the creation of design templates and guidelines to ensure visual consistency across all marketing materials.

### Sr. Visual Designer @ Distinctive Edge Partners
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Texas, United States
• Led high-impact design projects for digital and print, ensuring cohesive brand messaging across brochures, presentations, social media, ads, and websites.
• Partnered with marketing teams to develop compelling visual concepts that resonate with target audiences.
• Enforced brand consistency across platforms by adhering to and refining brand guidelines.
• Designed data-driven infographics, charts, and visual aids to enhance content clarity and presentation impact.
• Conducted image editing and enhancement to elevate visual quality for marketing materials.
• Juggled multiple projects with attention to deadlines, delivering top-tier designs on time and on-brand.
• Proactively tracked design trends in the aerospace and defense sectors to keep work fresh and relevant.

### Visual Designer / Website @ Marketing Six
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Santa Clarita, California, United States
• Spearheaded user-centric website/UI design for seamless interactions.
• Oversaw code flow for smooth integration.
• Created User Experience visions and detailed UI specifications, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Collaborated to refine the design system for visual cohesion and engineering efficiency.
• Maintained visual frameworks for brand consistency.
• Conducted meticulous reviews for flawless graphics and layouts.
• Designed social media content.

### Graphic Web Designer @ Marketing Six
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | United States

### Junior Associate, Website Designer @ DANQUAH GROUP LLC
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Pleasanton, California, United States
• Developed and disseminated original content aligning with the band's core values, community, current events, and target audience.
• Crafted weekly direct-mail pieces to promote the brand's lifestyle.
• Played a key role in shaping a bold vision and strategy for various aspects of the ecosystem, connecting strategies and initiatives for maximum impact.
• Collaborated with the design team to advance and fine-tune the design system, ensuring visual consistency and engineering efficiency across all user interactions.
• Maintained visual frameworks in all designs to uphold brand consistency across communication channels.
• Held direct responsibility for delivering User Experience visions, UI specifications, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Scrutinized final web pages and HTML emails with meticulous attention to detail, ensuring flawless graphics and layouts.

### Motion Graphic Designer @ OKAICOS
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States
• Forge compelling marketing experiences through the creation of high-quality assets, fueling our marketing channels and driving rapid growth.
• Develop storyboards, designs, concepts, and animations to vividly depict the entire narrative or experience of a concept.
• Craft conceptual illustrations and visuals that simplify intricate ideas.
• Revamp existing products using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects, producing dynamic motion graphics sequences ranging from titles to animations.
• Design digital and social ads incorporating video or animation content, and provide files for events, video channels, social ads, and websites.
• Contribute to all phases of creative production, from brainstorming and concept development to execution, delivering top-tier video creative.

### User Interface Designer @ deBreeze Interactive
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Apply systems thinking to design and deliver innovative end-to-end user experiences that optimize among user needs, business goals, and technological realities across web & mobile platforms
• Contributes to a bold vision and strategy for multiple areas in the ecosystem. Can connect the dots across multiple strategies and initiatives to make the largest impact.
• Turn visions into concepts and translate those concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity, despite complexity of the system
• Directly responsible for delivering User Experience visions, UI specifications, wireframes and prototypes
• Directly responsible for UI specifications, wireframes and prototypes with using program call jira.
Adobe Photoshop CC' 20, Adobe Illustrator CC' 20, Lightning Room CC' 20 and After Effects CC' 20, Premiere CC' 20, Dreamweaver CC' 20, Audition CC' 20, Hexels, Sketch.

### Creative Designer @ AstroReality
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Cupertino, CA
• Created all digital assets for marketing, sales and partnerships opportunities
• Designed and developed layouts for in-store displays, user interface and product promotion
• New product launches and reposition existing
• Create original and derivative design assets for use in online and offline marketing and products efforts
• Produce hi-fidelity graphics for use on social media channels
• Determined best visual representation by creating innovative style guides, landing pages, web banners and motion graphics
• UX base creation for app simplification and interaction to best position and capture user experience for AR / MR 
• UI creative development for color, clarity and more engaging interaction
• App motion development for better flow and simplification with end user engagement
• Developed, reviewed and approved all designs, artwork and photography
 • Analytical review and analysis of Facebook, Instagram and B8ta Store Ads to determine overall effectiveness, product performance and customer satisfaction that helped determine best and worst performers and led to increased MQL to SQL conversion (200% growth)
• Shark Tank TV Show - Successful video creation for final consideration with show producers 
• B8ta Stores - Developed Design for in-store user interface display of company assets for presentation within B8ta Store, including new placement and product launch in Hudson Yards NY store

### Graphic Production Artist @ Hogarth Worldwide
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, California
• Updated product imagery an UI elements in Photoshop comps and output web graphics 
• Structure Photoshop comps to optimize efficient production design and localization workflows using slices, smart objects, and layer comps
• Helped crate and improve WeChat adds for higher and more consistent engagement
• Tracked and updated in web graphics using a version control system
• Worked closely with producers, traffic, development, publishing, and international teams to meet project goals and ensure efficient file handoffs for localization
• Reviewed final web pages and HTML email with an exacting eye, ensuring that graphics and layouts were flawless
Tools: Adobe Photoshop CC '18, Adobe Illustrator CC '18, Photography, Lightning Room CC '18, Mock-up.

### Marketing Graphic Designer @ Bay Area Connect @ KellerWilliams
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Cupertino, California
• Created and distributed original content relevant to band core values, community, current events and targeted clientele
• Created weekly direct-email pieces promoting the brand lifestyle
• Created digital banner ads, landing pages and other graphic advertising pieces and postcard mailing that improved overall sales
• Maintained visual frameworks in all designs to support all communication channels
Tools: Adobe Photoshop CC '18, Adobe Illustrator CC '18, Photography, Lightning Room CC '18, Mock-up

### Senior Web Designer @ Professor Stan Welsh
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Jose, California
• Successfully created a new website to promote sculpture displays for an upcoming gallery shows and events
• Designed a user-friendly layout with headings to best highlight each sculpture
• Monthly updates that helped promote new sculptures and informed customers of new events and gallery shows
Tools: Built website utilizing HTML 5 and CSS3 (Dreamweaver CC)

### Marketing Graphic Designer @ Patriot Memory
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Fremont, CA
•  Crafted original marketing content to support product launches, events and campaigns designed to attract new customers
• Created weekly direct email assets promoting the lifestyle and use of Patriot Memory products
• Created digital banner ads, landing pages and other graphic advertising pieces
• Created and edited video-ready and motion graphics
• Maintained visual frameworks in all designs to support brand consistency throughout all communication channels
• Photographed and edited images of new products
Tools: Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Illustrator CC, Photography, Lightning Room CC, Mock-up

### Marketing and Events (Multimedia Internship)/Motion Graphic Designer @ San Jose State University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Jose
• Photographed and edited various on-campus subjects for SJSU website utilizing Lighting Room.
• Successfully implemented motion graphics for SJSU Associated Students House to describe their identity and role on campus.   
• Tools: Flash CC, After Effects CC, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Illustrator CC, Digital Photography, Lightning Room CC.

### Lead Designer @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, California
•  Collaborated with a team of engineers to create a parking app and prototype for Intel Rapid Prototype Competition
• Helped build prototype of App (using gallio) for parking
• Partnered with software developers to create a mobile app that allows users to reserve parking spaces in crowded lots.
• Created UI/UX designs, website designs and graphic designs to promote product
Tools: Adobe Photoshop CC '16, Adobe Illustrator CC '16, Digital Photography, Lightning Room CC '16, Sketch 2

### Graphic and Web Designer @ New Directions Sign Service
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Morgan Hill, California
• Collaborated with colleagues in designing advertisement’s and graphics to promote New Directions Sign Services.
• Improved communication and social skills with c-class executives.
• Created print advertisements and graphics based on customer design requirements. 
• Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Digital Photography, Lightning Room, Dreamweaver


## Education
### Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Digital media / Art
San José State University

### Associate of Arts (A.A.) in Digital Media/ Art
Gavilan College

### Certification in Digital Arts
Gavilan College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michael-xavier-62a04a76
- Portfolio: https://mcxdesign.com/work

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Last updated: 2026-04-13