Max Burnside
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Toptal member since November 9, 2016
Max has worked with clients such as Nike, Facebook, John Frieda, and Monster.com. Most recently, he led design at AdHawk from 20 people growing to over 100 employees, through multiple acquisitions of companies, completely redesigning its iOS app as well as creating the brand and UI design for its latest product, FlooringStores.com.
Portfolio
Golden
Nike
Level Therapy
uMOOC
Webveloper
LotStocks
EyeMed
SparkUp
Experience
- Adobe Illustrator - 6 years
- Adobe Photoshop - 6 years
- MacOS - 6 years
- CSS - 5 years
- Illustration - 5 years
- Front-end - 5 years
- Web Design - 5 years
- Logo Design - 3 years
Tools
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
Work Experience
UX/UI Designer and Front-end Web Developer
Burnside Agency
- Designed UI and icons, created illustrations, and made branding materials for clients including Nike, Facebook, Luxottica, Paribas BNP, and Demand Media.
- Designed, developed, and ran an online design tutorial platform that provided design videos, resources, and articles to freelance designers.
Lead UI/UX Designer
AdHawk, Inc.
- Created the FlooringStores.com logo, wordmark, illustrations, color palette, and style guide.
- Redesigned the entire AdHawk iOS app.
Lead UX/UI Designer and Front-end Web Developer
Viewabill
- Designed and developed the front-end of a web application that allowed clients to see the legal team’s billing activity in real-time.
- Redesigned and developed the marketing site to simplify the user signup process and improved the user experience with optimized image assets, SVG animations, and minified site resources.
Interaction Designer
LISNR
- Rebranded the company, creating a custom icon font, a suite of vector illustrations, product branding, infographics, one-pagers, and press materials.
- Designed and developed a marketing site to convert users to customers.
- Designed mobile applications for Shakira, Nas, and John Frieda.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Professional Writing
Miami University - Ohio
Skills
Tools
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, MAMP, Cyberduck, Animatron, Sublime Text, Zeplin, Sketch
Languages
CSS, SCSS, Haml, HTML
Platforms
MacOS, Android, iOS, Figma
Other
Web Design, Wireframing, Icon Design, Illustration, Adobe Acrobat Pro, UI Design, UX Design, Web UI, Web UI Design, Front-end, Sass, Animation, Video Editing, Branding, Logo Design, Abstracts, User Interface (UI), Web Development, Visual Design, Brand Design, Videos, Writing & Editing, Typography, FileZilla
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