Hyun Kim
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
San Francisco, CA, United States
Toptal member since May 19, 2020
Hyun has several years of experience designing digital products for Fortune 500 companies and Bay Area startups. He loves to build intuitive, thoughtful, and beautifully crafted products for organizations looking for an autonomous designer who loves to ship quickly. Hyun works closely with top Bay Area VC firms like Greylock Partners and Bain Capital to help their portfolio companies with product design needs. Hyun's worked for many companies, including Intel, Walmart, J&J, Genentech, and more.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Product Designer (Portfolio Companies)
Greylock Partners
- Worked closely with Greylock partners as a referral product designer for many of their early portfolio companies.
- Collaborated with the founders and core team on endeavors ranging from pre-seed to series B. Many Greylock Partners portfolio companies, including names of note like Airbnb and LinkedIn, pass $1 billion valuations.
- Built new MVP products and optimized product design needs for portfolio companies.
Product Designer
Bain & Company
- Helped design new digital products for Fortune 500 executive clients. Services from the digital team include UX research, product strategy, product design, and implementation.
- Conducted onsite UX research, did rapid collaborations, held design thinking workshops, and handled client presentations.
- Designed specific outputs that have included mockups, interactive products, heuristic evaluations, user personas, empathy maps, multi-variant testing, interactive prototypes, animations, and videos.
- Implemented UX research practices include multiple variant testing, A/B testing, usability testing, on-site observation, system usability scale, 5 Whys, user flows, user journeys, and storyboarding.
- Worked and collaborated with MBA consultants to help provide a balance of user needs and business objectives for our clients.
Product Designer
Abnormal Security
- Worked as the sole product designer from their series A to series B funding of $24 million from top-tier Bay Area VC firm, Greylock Partners.
- Oversaw UX research including user interviews, persona creation, empathy mapping, user flows, user journeys, and usability testing.
- Collaborated with stakeholders including the founders, chief staff, engineers (ML, infra, front end), customer success, and marketers to help design new products for our suite.
- Designed our internal tools that our ML engineers and data scientists could leverage for their investigation process.
- Communicated and represented the customer's voice through weekly insights aggregated through multiple channels.
Product Designer
Owsy
- Worked on multiple products including agency management, policy management, E&S insurance accounting, and a distribution API used for third-party integration.
- Worked as the sole designer and designed new products and features as well as redesigning existing ones.
- Conducted on-site interviews and usability tests to gain user insights throughout various offices in California.
- Designed user journeys, maps, and personas to compile strong UX insights and findings to stakeholders.
- Provided the information architecture, UX, interaction, visual, and UI for all of their products.
Associate Creative Director | Partner
Websauce Studio (Acquired by White Rabbit)
- Managed the client interactions for design services and designed all projects from ideation to inception.
- Provided new design consulting services to the agency including product design, iOS and Android design, ethnography research, product strategy, information architecture, and technical feasibility.
- Increased Websauce's project workload capabilities by managing and designing five to six projects at a time.
- Helped double our company revenue from 2017 to 2018 and raise it by another 60% from 2018 to 2019.
User Interface Designer
Breyta
- Designed intranet systems and digital supply chain products for Fortune 500 companies.
- Collaborated closely with UX researchers, PMs, and engineers with an agile process.
- Produced high-fidelity UI designs from the basic box or sketched wireframes.
- Executed the correct branding standards and established proper aesthetics from colors, fonts, layout, logos, iconography, and illustrations.
- Worked on product strategy and UX responsibilities on smaller-scale projects.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Design, Visual Communication
University of California, Davis - Davis, CA, United States
Skills
Tools
Figma, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Experience Design (XD), InVision, Zeplin, Balsamiq, Adobe CC, Google Workspace, Miro, Adobe Photoshop, Axure RP Pro, Framer X, Principle, FullStory, Apple Keynote
Platforms
iOS, Android, MacOS, Axure
Industry Expertise
Healthcare, Education, Insurance Technology (Insurtech), Fitness, Cybersecurity, Exercise & Fitness, Health & Wellness, Automotive, Telecommunications
Languages
HTML, CSS
Other
Web App UX, Web App UI, Product Design, UX Design, UI Design, Visual Design, User Research, Web Design, Mobile Design, Big Data, Data Visualization, Prototyping, User Flows, Dashboard Design, App Design, Mobile Apps, User Experience (UX), Web UX, iOS App Design, Medicine, Fortune Global 500, Dashboards, Designing for Data, Wellness, Mobile App Design, Mobile UI Design, Redesign, Adult Learning, Usability Testing, User Interviews, SaaS, Communication Design, Enterprise, Heuristic Evaluation, Enterprise SaaS, AI Design, Machine Learning, Information Architecture (IA), Enterprise Design, Software as a Service (SaaS), B2B, Collaboration, Productivity, Responsive Web Apps, SaaS Design, User Interface (UI), Web App Design, Web Applications, Web Dashboards, B2C, React, Heap, Medical Software, Parking, Branding, Logo Design, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
Experience
- UI Design - 7 years
- User Experience (UX) - 7 years
- Web App Design - 7 years
- UX Design - 7 years
- Product Design - 7 years
- Dashboard Design - 6 years
- Data Visualization - 6 years
- Mobile Design - 6 years
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