Vetted Design Professionals

Scott Compton

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Staff/Lead Game Systems Designer specializing in AAA live games and emergent narrative

30y exp

“Progression/economy designer and lead live designer with shipped AAA and live-service experience across Shadow of Mordor/War, Guardians of Middle-earth, Days Gone, and Star Trek Online. Known for building quantitative tuning models (200+ stat points calculator), leading large QA-driven balance loops, and using telemetry to uncover and fix major friction points (e.g., off-screen archer deaths) while maintaining engaging, fair progression.”

Cheryl Qian

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Junior Product Designer specializing in AI-powered SaaS products

New York, NY3y exp

“Product-minded designer/builder who operates at the intersection of UX, support, and engineering. At Miter, they helped launch three products and built the customer-facing readiness layer that contributed to a 15% adoption increase; at Yacht Labs, they designed and implemented high-polish React/Next.js experiences and proposed a spec-driven app generation system to make AI output more controllable and trustworthy.”

“Product/design leader with experience at Indeed Flex, Buildertrend, and Google, including principal design work on an LLM-powered scheduling assistant for gig workforce management. Particularly strong in human-centered AI, using user research and analytics to improve conversational workflows, and in translating messy operational processes into clearer product experiences across multiple industries.”

“World of Warcraft quest designer who owned end-to-end quest pipelines and shipped standout content, including the memorable escort/stealth quest “Klaskin’s Great Escape” tuned through playtests and a Dragonflight capstone framing story that drove higher side-quest engagement. Experienced in Lua scripting, reward/economy balancing, and building daily/weekly endgame loops (Beetle Ranch/Rak-Ush), with recent UE5 Avalanche node-based VFX prototyping exposure.”

Seung Jun Kim

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Mid-level UX/Human Interface Designer specializing in design systems and UX research

4y exp

“Product/UX designer with industrial domain experience designing an end-to-end "factory mode" vehicle software experience for assembly-line workers, optimized for speed, flat navigation, and multi-device responsiveness across different plants. Combines rigorous field research and SME collaboration with strong front-end skills (HTML/CSS/TypeScript/React), including coding components to demonstrate feasibility and keep features in scope; also has accessibility-focused telehealth capstone work for d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing users.”

Erik Wilkinson

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Senior Game Designer specializing in systems, combat, and live-ops game modes

Allen, TX19y exp

“Game designer with shipped experience on Squid Game Unleashed (mobile) and Radical Heights (battle royale), owning multiple modes end-to-end from paper design and greybox through tuning, QA, and live ops/backend rollout. Demonstrates strong Unreal/Blueprint prototyping, pacing-focused iteration (targeting 70–90s rounds), and building meta challenge systems that stay fresh via monthly/seasonal rotations and player-feedback-driven map weighting.”

“Game QA lead with 20+ years of tooling and workflow experience, most recently leading QA on a Unity-based MLB mobile title with annual releases and major feature updates. Led QA for the PS Vita port of Borderlands 2 focused on technical requirements, performance, and usability, including making a key ship-risk call to limit multiplayer players. Known for disciplined Jira/TestRail administration, strong cross-functional communication, and uncovering critical submission-blocking issues with clear evidence and repro steps.”

“Product/UX designer with hands-on experience designing AI-driven products end-to-end, including an AI shopping assistant (Stylaire) with multimodal conversational search (text/voice/image). Uses rapid prototyping and usability testing to simplify complex flows (e.g., reducing filter overload via progressive disclosure) and collaborates closely with engineers with working knowledge of HTML/CSS and component systems.”

Jiayi Huang

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Junior Product/UX Designer specializing in FinTech and conversational AI

Chicago, IL2y exp

“Founding product designer at a startup building RealSpend, an AI-powered fintech product centered on conversational decision support (contextual insights and in-flow actions). Also designed the companion app for Lasso Loop, an in-home recycling appliance, translating an industrial process into a warm, kitchen-friendly UX using layered information architecture and progressive disclosure, with strong design-system alignment to React/Tailwind/Ant Design engineering stacks.”

Jacqueline Excoffier

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Senior Graphic & Web Designer specializing in audience development and brand design

13y exp

“Marketing designer with Crunchyroll experience spanning OOH billboard/signage campaigns (including India launch creative for dubbed anime), scalable Figma template systems for high-volume social output, and short-form social video editing. Comfortable operating in fast-feedback environments (Wrike/Slack), collaborating with art directors, UA/growth, and external partners (e.g., Spotify) while maintaining brand and licensor constraints.”