# Owen Seok > Senior Product Designer at Samsung Electronics America Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/owenseok I'm a product designer and interaction designer with a strong drive to design user flows and wireframes from scratch to building mockups, prototypes and finalized visual design. I believe all the problems have a unique and better way to be solved, and finding the answers is the role as a product designer. I'm comfortable with analyzing and finding the current issues and drawing meet solutions by using eidetic user experience and interface. ## Work Experience ### Product Design Lead & Design Advisor @ TakeASip Jan 2025 – Present | Sunnyvale, CA Help early-stage teams clarify the right problems to solve, align on product direction, and elevate the overall design quality from user experience to visual and brand expression, so the product scales with clarity and trust. - Led design strategy - Led product design, design system ### Senior Product Designer @ Samsung Electronics America Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States Samsung Gaming Hub Crafting intuitive 10ft Smart TV platform interfaces and purposeful D-pad interactions to elevate the living room entertainment experience. - Led the Onboarding experience (First Time User), overseeing the end-to-end process from UX design to the final visual execution handoff. - Led UT(User Testing) prototype, managed prototype engineers, assets, and ran the UTs. - Led the creation of the Gaming Hub internal tool to manage assets and make it easy to update Ads. - Initiate new concept design, and continuously share the latest TV design trends with the team to ensure we remain aligned with current industry standards. - Create/maintain the Figma and Sketch design library and GUI specs. - Participated/Initiated in several new concept AI projects as a product designer and built a logic and system for individual businesses ### Product Designer @ Samsung Electronics America Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States Samsung Smart TV - Gaming hub ### Product Designer @ Ringle Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Mateo, California, United States ### Product Designer / Design Lead @ Ringle Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Seoul, South Korea Re-created an entire Web / App platform with a Human-Centered Experience. - Led visual design, student learning experience design for desktop and mobile. - Designed and implemented an integrated experience for Zoom and Google Docs within the lesson view. - Analyzed users’ speaking patterns and suggested synonyms instead of users’ redundant words.
 - Created delightful purchase experiences with personalized products based on their usage pattern. TurnChat Business (Affiliated company of Ringle)
 - Led on interaction and visual design from scratch until finalized for English conversation platform web and app. 
- Created administrator’s managing pages, commercial films, and designed marketing sources. ### Interaction Designer Intern @ Upgrade, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States I'm not only working as an interaction designer but also design as a product designer. • Designed illust animations for verifying user ID. • Built user's credit score trends flow, graph, and interaction for every case. • Created micro interaction for icons, illustrations, and spinner. • Focused on creating brand illustration style. ### Interaction Designer Intern @ Upgrade, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States Identification / Credit Trends / Placeholders 
- Worked on self-identification and created animations to demonstrate the flow.
 - Created the credit history chart with micro-interactions for icons, illustrations, spinner, and placeholders. ### Interaction Designer Intern @ Upgrade, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States Brand illustration 
- Created Upgrade’s brand illustration style.
 - Designed icon-set with a new style. ### Freelance Motion Graphic Designer @ Self-employed Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, Korea I worked as a freelance motion graphic designer for 2 years. I designed several projects like CFs and animations for children. Also, I taught, gave advise, and guided some graduation exhibition projects of major universities' student(such as Ewha Women's University, Hongik University, and Kunkuk University) in South Korea as private lesson. ### Motion Graphic Designer @ Dpub design studio Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea I worked as a 3D motion graphic designer but my major skill was 2D motion. I spent the whole a year for creating a huge project that was a hologram concert as a team. I can't make it public because it's confidential, but I have access to it indirectly through YouTube. • Created 3D elements and background of the hologram stages. • Designed movement for every element that I managed. • Built several styles of attack effects(Sword, Bow, Arrow, and Sheild Effects) ## Education ### Master of Fine Arts - MFA in Web design & new media Academy of Art University ### Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA in Visual design Yeungnam University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/owen-seok - Portfolio: https://www.owenseok.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/owenseok JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/owenseok/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13