Damon Kiley
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Seattle, WA, United States
Toptal member since November 7, 2024
Damon is an expert product designer with 25 years of experience seamlessly navigating the full design stack, including UI and motion design, UX research, and design leadership. His recent work encompasses quantum computing, AI, and blockchain design expertise. His proficiency extends to prototyping and front-end code, ensuring a holistic design approach. Beyond tech, Damon boasts a strong following in the music industry, where his visual design work has captivated audiences and clients alike.
Portfolio
Microsoft Research
Azure Quantum Elements
SongRise NFT Platform
Intact Tech
Tamino's Official Website
Work Experience
Designer | Owner
Resident Agency
- Interviewed and recruited designers, project managers, and developers and established and worked with distributed teams and workflows.
- Assembled a subscription marketplace for music instructors to teach and interact with students, which resulted in over 250 paying monthly subscribers within the first month of launch.
- Designed and built a custom CRM with location mapping for a real estate client, pulling in data from various sources, including Salesforce, RealScout, multiple listing service (MLS), and geolocation.
- Collaborated with engineers and stakeholders in Scrum, Agile, and roadmapping sessions, utilizing expertise in consumer-facing products, mobile platforms, real estate, MLS, the music and entertainment industry, and SaaS and cloud computing startups.
Senior Product Designer
Microsoft
- Engaged as a product designer for Azure Quantum Elements, an AI-driven scientific discovery platform that became Microsoft Azure Quantum's first revenue-generator—achieving $500 million in its first year—and is now used by The National Laboratories.
- Created numerous product demos for senior leadership, including Satya Nadella and Jason Zander, which directly resulted in budget increases for Azure Quantum, leading to additional headcount for key scientific and research roles.
- Conducted research interviews with computational chemists that helped establish key features in designing software products while addressing common pain points across the scientific community.
- Played a key role in launching Azure Quantum's first website featuring four Copilot-driven experiences across various topics, including quantum computing using Q#, molecular visualization and discovery, and cryptography resource estimation.
Senior UX Designer, Apple Cloud
Apple
- Learned and adopted internal style libraries to design and build internal apps, charts, icons, and other design collateral while successfully working independently to design user interfaces based on ambiguous technical specifications.
- Designed and helped build an app for managing and visualizing service dependencies and impacts within the internal Apple Cloud services group.
- Created charts, infographics, icons, and diagrams to supplement various internal websites and apps.
Senior Product Designer
SongRise
- Engaged as the first full-time design hire and led a successful rebranding campaign that included conducting focus group polls and UAT tests and creating a new company name and logo by narrowing down a list of 100+ names and 30+ logo designs.
- Designed innovative features on the platform, which consisted of an NFT marketplace with social and community features and exclusive benefits and utilities that expanded the functionality and usefulness of NFTs.
- Created complex, 1st-to-market blockchain purchase workflows that included NFT gating benefits, user and artist profile UIs, and marketing deliverables such as the homepage, custom icons, illustrations, email, and social media design assets.
- Led the engineering team and stakeholders during weekly Scrum sessions and collaborated with artists, partners, and venture capital investors.
Skills
Tools
Adobe Creative Suite, Git, After Effects CC, Sketch, Adobe CC
Languages
HTML5, CSS4, JavaScript, Go
Platforms
Figma, Craft CMS, Mobile, Kubernetes, Shopify, WordPress, Web, Azure Quantum
Other
UI Design, Responsive Layout, Product Design, Prototyping, App UI, Web Design, UX Design, Information Architecture (IA), Motion & Animation Design, SaaS Design, Web Development, Branding, App Design, Accessible Design, UX Research, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Quantum Computing, leadership presentations, 3D Video, Scientific Illustration, Scientific Animation, UI Development, NFT Design, Blockchain, Polygon, MetaMask, Salesforce Sales Cloud, ExpressionEngine, Design, Azure Quantum Elements
Experience
- Motion & Animation Design - 20 years
- Adobe Creative Suite - 20 years
- UI Design - 16 years
- Prototyping - 15 years
- Responsive Layout - 12 years
- Product Design - 10 years
- Craft CMS - 10 years
- Figma - 7 years
Tools
- Adobe Creative Suite
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