# Ted Yamada-Dessert > Product Designer - MDes Interaction Design @ California College of the Arts Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tedyamadadessert I am a Designer and my passion is design research and building products from the ground up. Starting an AI club at CCA! ## Work Experience ### Grad Student @ California College of the Arts Jan 2025 – Present ### Prototype Machinist @ APROE Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Prototyping for engineering projects, and operating a waterjet. ### Product Designer @ Metabob Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 Led Design, handling everything, from UX/UI to logo design, contributing to product strategy, ran design thinking sessions and marketing. Managed web app designs handoff to engineers through a succinct design system and created and oversaw website. ### Founder @ Kickback Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Created Product from Scratch, UX design, put together founding team, User Research, created product roadmap, marketing, design system, sales - found first paid customer ### UX Design Lecturer @ Harmony Plus Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States I teach a 1 month long UX design course, and I go over the basics of UX design and teach how to design an app from scratch. I’m super proud of the work I’ve been asking from the students so far. I’ve been having a lot of fun teaching this class and spreading my joy of UX design. ### Hook.vc Accelerator w2020 batch for Kickback @ Hook Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### Product Manager @ Repertoire Productions Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | South San Francisco, California Mostly I’m working on product managing our rental website, but at any given notice I could be managing developers, building structures, laser cutting, designing, creating RFP decks, creating websites, working on animations in After Effects, or going over strategy. Created the website for their sister company, Production Line Studios. ### Design @ Clyste Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ### Designer, Product Manager, Co-Founder @ Kroma Kicks Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California - Directed, location scouted, shot, edited, color-graded, produced all marketing videos, Designed logo and other marketing assets, Designed modes and interface for product - Developed overall product strategy, Tested and iterated 5 different hardware prototypes through 20 different independent trails to finalize V1 design, Ran design thinking meetings, Launched Kickstarter - Co-founded company, did all the hands-on dirty work of starting a company, ran meetings, created project roadmap, created positive and fun company culture - Conducted market and design research, Designed a marketable form factor of initial motion reactive technology out of research, Created influencer marketing strategy from research that brought in over 300,000 views ### Product Design @ Artisense Corporation Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, California Artisense solves the problem of real-time 3D reconstruction and localization which is critical for the future of AR and autonomous vehicles. - Acquired an in-depth knowledge of the design limitations of SLAM and other self-driving technologies (camera, lidar, hd maps, radar, event camera, stereo camera, dso slam, orb slam, lsd slam) - Worked on product roadmap, Worked in Germany for 2 months, Pitched at conference in Germany - Ran design thinking meetings, Conducted design research, Created important product features out of research, Designed camera body, 3D printed camera unit, sanded & finished 3D unit, Designed pitch deck, Designed Flyers ### Graphic Design Intern @ Uptown Juice Company Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Oakland Creating Flyers, Marketing Material, Signage, tested juice, worked on production processes. ### Graphic Design Intern @ Paid Piper Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Graphic design, Website Wireframes, first experience being in a startup. ### Graphic Designer @ Buena Vista Orthodontics Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Burbank, CA I designed a login interface for the waiting room, made promotional fliers, worked on the website, and was did general market research and graphic design. I also helped with the design of the logo. ### Sales Associate @ Nordstrom Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Los Angeles Shoe salesman: Nordstrom’s Training program in excellent customer service. In charge of handling cash register, credit cards, sales of shoes, stocking supply, cleaning store, customer service. ## Education ### Masters in Interaction Design in UX Design California College of the Arts ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in UX Design San Francisco State University ### Coding Bootcamp 42 Silicon Valley ### Highschool Diploma Pacific Hills School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/donji --- Source: https://flows.cv/tedyamadadessert JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tedyamadadessert/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13