More than 12 years of work experience.

With a proven track record of success in creating impactful
design solutions, I've worked with some of the world’s largest organizations to drive real change.

With a proven track record of success in creating impactful
design solutions, I've worked with some of the world’s largest organizations to drive real change.

Experience

Experience

DANIEL KIM DESIGN

Product Designer

Mar 2013 — Present

  • Provide user experience design services and consultation for various clients. 


JUST EAT TAKEAWAY.COM

Senior UX Team Lead

Dec 2021— Aug 2023

  • Management: Lead team to ensure designers are deployed and projects are created to effectively deliver the largest user value in the shortest time frame. 

  • Vision: Define a clear, user-centred vision, which aligns with business goals and product strategy and outlines the future possibilites of design direction. 

  • Discovery: Ensure a user centred pipeline of work is created to enable the completion of design strategy with tracking performance metrics that highlight key risks and opportunities. 

  • Strategy: Communicate design strategy to be clearly articulated, persuasive and understood by all stakeholders involved. 

  • People: Assemble the right balance and mix of skillsets in our team via recruitment, performance management, coaching and development to ensure delivery of strategy. 

  • Process: Ensure design processes are customer centred, agile, lean and effectively applied towards goal to deliver maximum customer value. 


ZALANDO

Senior Product Designer

Oct 2018 — Nov 2021

  • Lead design system efforts for creating Zalando enterprise products. 

  • Audit existing inventory of design components to better understand use cases; translate lnsights to evolve the user experience; optimize design system for speed and scale in enterprise applications. 

  • Design platform to onboard our partners unto Zalando with access to data-driven services that provide insights to partner performances for better business decision making. 

  • Work within cross-functional teams to drive strategy and execution. 


GE DIGITAL

Lead Visual Designer

Dec 2013 — May 2018

  • Lead software product experiences for the industrial internet of things (IoT).

  • Guide effective documentation & communication of design via wireframes, mockups, prototypes, user stories, and high-fidelity visual designs. 

  • Lead research & synthesize output of stakeholder research to create reports & visualizations that summarize key insights related to user needs, behaviors, and product definition. 


APPLE

Contract Visual Designer

Sep 2013 — Nov 2013

  • Provided design concepts and consultation for the Apple store app.


FJORD

UX Visual Designer

May 2012 — Mar 2013

  • Provide visual interface design across multi-platforms: mobile, web, PC. 

  • Produce UX and GUI concepting. 

  • Participate in early stage project definition & proposition creation.

  • Produce personas, storyboards, scenarios, & design prototypes 

    Clients: PayPal, eBay 


ZIBA CALIFORNIA

Design Researcher / Product Designer

Apr 2011 — Oct 2011

  • Provide research to explore and identify key consumer/client needs. 

  • Apply research insights into innovative, tangible design solutions.

    Clients: Covidien, GE 


IDEO

Contract Designer

Jan 2011

  • Developed design work and illustrations for their non-profit, socially responsible design project for developing countries, ideo.org.


SAMSUNG

Contract Designer

June 2010 — Oct 2010

  • Created future home appliance concepts with design team. 

  • Collaborated with strategists to develop storyboarding and scenarios.

  • Assisted design team with CAD modeling & rendering.


Education

Education

ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN

BS, Product Design

2005 — 2010


UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

BA, Communication

1995 — 1999


Skills

Skills

  • Figma

  • Adobe Creative Suite

  • Miro

  • JIRA, Asana

  • Google Suite

  • Notion


Interested in connecting?

Let’s talk opportunities, collaborations, or anything design!

Interested in connecting?

Let’s talk opportunities, collaborations, or anything design!

Interested in connecting?

Let’s talk opportunities, collaborations, or anything design!

Copyright 2025 by Daniel Kim

Copyright 2025 by Daniel Kim

Copyright 2025 by Daniel Kim