# Ruby Hong

> Lead UX Design at Adobe | Driving Scalable, User-Centered Experiences | ex-Google, ex-Apple, ex-Yahoo

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rubyhong

Ruby is a seasoned designer lead working in both agency and tech environments. Her focuses are on creative direction, visual design, brand development, user experience design, mentoring. As creative lead, she has also guided here clients through the design process. Her other skills include information architecture, market research and analysis, strategic planning, documentation, prototyping, concept and content development, illustration, and photography.

Specialties: UX design-visual and interaction design, branding and identity, user interface design, mentoring, service design, design strategy, business partner alliance.

Continuing ed in Storytelling--Scripwriting and storyboarding; product development, fashion design.

Check out my book focusing on illustration and surface pattern design: “Surface Stories” on Amazon. https://a.co/d/0imHTLq6

## Work Experience
### Lead Designer @ Adobe
Jan 2016 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Lead UX designer. UX, UI, Visual designer. Overseeing projects and designers Creative Cloud and across cloud products. Strategy, design systems, personalization, events platform on multiple surfaces. Cross-team collaborations with user research, engineering, design, content, stakeholders.

### Principal and Founder @ rubydesign
Jan 2015 – Present
Working with companies large and small on developing websites, online applications, microsites, mobile apps, branding. Services provided include project lead and creative lead (interaction and visual design).

### Lead Designer @ AncestryDNA
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco
Sr. Lead UX Product Designer on the Ancestry DNA product. Development of workflows, interaction, visual design on mobile and desktop apps. Worked cross-functionally, cross-product with engineering, design team, user research, content, genetic science team.

### Design @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | mountain view, ca
Google Android

### Sr. UX Designer @ Apple
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Cupertino
UX, UI, and visual design for design team on various projects across surfaces--ipad, mobile, desktop.

### VP UX Design @ Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014
Oversee, lead, and doing hands-on design on various projects with user experience team across brands, design, development various online products (online tools, mobile apps, creation and documenting UX standards, build online style guide).

### Design Manager @ Wells Fargo
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Design, manage & oversee visual design team, develop overall design strategy and communicate across teams, develop visual standards for the group.


## Education
### Design
UCLA


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ruby-hong-a3736
- Portfolio: http://rubydesign.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13