# Rory Starks

> Product / UX Designer

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

Innovative product and UX designer with over 15 years of experience delivering award-winning digital experiences. Proven success in leading cross-functional teams, creating user-centered designs, and developing procedural content generation systems. Expert in rapid prototyping, front-end development, and game design, with a track record of driving product success through analytics, user research, and prototyping.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ Series Entertainment
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Designer @ Bricks
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024

### Fitness Instructor @ Transform Fitness Studio
Jan 2017 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, CA

### Design Director / Senior Product Manager of Platform @ Brava Home Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2023

### Director of UI/UX @ Kiwi, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, CA

### Director of User Experience @ SGN (Social Gaming Network)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, CA

### Director of User Experience @ Kiwi, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto, CA
In addition to handling UI/UX on several games I also manage a team of UI designers and UI artists. I write tools for our UI and art teams to help them export and integrate assets quickly.

### Senior UI Designer @ Playdom
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | Palo Alto, CA
I worked on several Facebook games at Playdom (Disney Interactive). The most notable of these projects was Gardens of Time, which is a hidden-object city building game that was one of the division's best titles. On that project I was responsible for designing the UX, creating UI art, and developing rapid prototypes. After that project I worked on Disney Animal Kingdom Explorers, which was a re-theme of Gardens of Time based on the Disney theme park.

### Interface Designer and Programmer @ Synthetic Worlds Initiative
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Bloomington, IN
Worked on a browser-based economics simulation.  It was essentially an online board game that played like a large-scale Settlers of Catan.  I worked primarily on the front-end code and user interface elements.

### Lead Artist @ Synthetic Worlds Initiative
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007

### Artist @ Battlement Studios
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
-Created the world map for the game (used for in-game navigation as well as a poster)
-Created several digital cards
-Developed card frames and GUI graphics


## Education
### Master of Science in Immersive Mediated Environments
Indiana University Bloomington

### Bachelor of Arts in Telecommunications - Design and Production
Indiana University Bloomington


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rorystarks
- Portfolio: http://www.rorystarks.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13