# Patrick Wujcik > Product Designer | ex-Microsoft | PT/contract/vendor roles Location: Issaquah, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/patrickwujcik As a well-rounded creative professional, I am available for both remote and hybrid work, as well as for part-time, short-term, and non-lead roles. With years of hands-on experience in the entire design process, I possess a deep understanding of user-centered design principles and a keen interest in the technical side of design. If you are looking for a reliable and competent design resource to assist your project or team during busy times or to tackle specific design projects, I encourage you to get in touch for a chat! ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ Ex-Microsoft Jan 2021 – Present | Greater Seattle Area Available for contract/vendor remote or hybrid Product Design projects. Will prioritize Microsoft/Enterprise opportunities. ### Microsoft Teams @ Kforce Inc Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Bellevue, WA Product Designer via Kforce Inc. Teams Modern Platform | IT Pro design, developing and enhancing new Teams solutions while collaborating with researchers, product managers, designers and engineers. ### Microsoft Business Applications Group (BAG) - Senior Interaction Designer @ Allovus Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area Design team partner in the Cloud +AI space, creating and improving Data Driven Design scenarios and Data Visualization user experiences for Services (browser) and Desktop in Power BI, as well as helping to implement Microsoft's Fluent Design Language into the Enterprise space. ### Windows & Devices Group - Senior User Experience Designer @ Allovus Creative Partnerships Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area Senior designer role with (WDG) Windows & Devices Group. Partnering with high-level Principles and Program Managers as well as Developers, Engineers and fellow UX, icon, visual and motion designers, I contributed and drove a variety of projects which ranged from internal applications, external consumer facing websites and exploratory designs for new products for web, mobile, desktop and Xbox console. ### Microsoft Skype for Business - Senior User Experience Designer @ Allovus Creative Partnerships Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Seattle Area Interaction design role developing portal design for Skype for Business IT/Admin. Role included translating high level concepts into browser based interaction flows and wireframes, focusing on ways that enterprise users can change how they work for the next version of Skype for Business in Office 365. ### Microsoft Research (MSR) - Senior User Experience Designer @ Allovus Creative Partnerships Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Seattle Area Collaboration with the MSR Language Translator Design Team to provide User Experience design and direction for a new Language Translator conversational interface app now available for web and mobile. 1:1 conversations or larger group interactions, Microsoft Translator Live is a free translation and transcription service that let's you have translated conversations across multiple devices on iOS, Android, Windows, PowerPoint and web. ### Author-it Software Corporation - Senior User Experience Designer @ Allovus Creative Partnerships Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Seattle Area Senior UX design role collaborating with a new Product Development team in Seattle to define a database-driven, multi-browser, multi-platform enterprise content creation platform for the Lifescience/Healthcare space. I partnered with a Principle UX designer, product managers, developers, execs and an agile cross-functional team in a startup environment to create a new, complex browser-based enterprise management solution from the ground up. Role included ideation, concept mapping, information architecture, wireframes, interaction design, visual design, motion design, defining CSS and prototyping. ### Microsoft Employee Experience Labs - Senior User Experience Designer @ Allovus Creative Partnerships Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Redmond WA Provide UX guidance / alignment, screen flows and wireframes for a cross-platform mobile app for Windows Phone, iOS and Android; partnering with an agile development team to build a new mobile application intended for all Microsoft employees worldwide. ### User Experience Designer 2 @ Microsoft | Windows Design & Research Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 | Redmond WA As a MSFT, I collaborated with teams of Designers, Researchers, Engineers and Product Managers to design and ship Microsoft features on multiple Windows releases (Windows 8 to Windows 10, with 14 + patents received for designs in Windows) used by a billion users worldwide. Researched user patterns and behaviors; leveraged insights to anticipate user needs and transform complex tasks into intuitive, accessible and easy-to-use designs. Developed user flows, wireframes, storyboards, UI mockups and prototypes. Analyzed usability of new and existing products and provided valuable recommendations for improving designs that respond to a wide range of devices. ### User Experience Designer @ Microsoft | Windows Design & Research Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Redmond WA Converted from vendor to full-time (MSFT) Microsoft designer and joined the Windows 7 OEM engagement initiative partnership with Sony, HP and Dell that focused on the planning and design of software / hardware concepts and ecosystem readiness UX. A late 2009 reorg folded the small and agile PC3|UX team into the large Windows Design and Research product group. ### Product Designer @ Filter, A Merkle Company Jan 1999 – Jan 2007 | Greater Seattle Area Excelled in vendor / consultant capacity over a 8+ year period; working with talented product teams across the full life cycle of design in a range of roles to deliver UX, visual, interaction, prototyping and motion graphics design solutions for web, tablet and desktop. Selected feature projects include: (timeline from bottom to top) Microsoft Surface Table: Created interaction design concepts for multi-touch table surfaces. Microsoft Encarta: Designed end-to-end Math app experiences targeted toward the student community. Microsoft Server: Designed innovative UX concepts for SOA scenarios. Microsoft Emerging Markets: Developed Windows OS Shell concepts for Asian markets. Expedia: Designed web-based interstitial concepts and interactive search results. Microsoft Mobile PC: Delivered pen and touch-based design solutions for Windows XP and Vista. Microsoft Tablet PC: Created award-winning Windows XP Tablet PC pen input tutorials. David Lemley Design: Collaboration on an award winning, fun based Safeco “Safety All Stars” Flash-HTML website for kids that illustrated potential unsafe online scenarios and provided safe decision making concepts. Microsoft MSN Sidewalk: Designed and produced animated web ads and small business websites. ## Education ### Advertising Design College for Creative Studies ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/patrickwujcik - Portfolio: http://www.patrickwujcik.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/patrickwujcik JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/patrickwujcik/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30