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Leo Walton

@leowalton

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Self-taught Product Designer with 10+ years of experience

Australia

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What I'm looking for

Looking for a role that allows me to leverage my skills and experience to craft impactful digital solutions and build strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.

I'm Leo, a seasoned Product Designer with a passion for crafting impactful end-to-end digital solutions. With a background in Graphic Design, I transitioned to Product Design, where I've spent my time understanding human behavior and delivering captivating experiences. My diverse experience in industries such as education, HealthTech, machine learning, SaaS, and non-profits has given me a broad perspective.

I've worked with companies of all sizes, from 2-person startups to $26 billion corporations, and understand the importance of organizational alignment, expectation setting, and building inspired teams. I'm a people person, and I thrive on building strong, respectful relationships with anyone I meet or work with.

As a Product Designer, I've developed a range of skills, from UX techniques and deliverables to people management and service design. I'm proficient in rapid prototyping, research ops, and workshop facilitation, and I'm always looking for ways to improve my craft.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Product & CX Design Lead

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Self Employed

Oct 2022 - Present (2 years 8 months)

As an independent consultant, I help organisations around the world make digital products & services that solve complex user and business problems.

Product Design User Experience Collaboration

LEAD UI.UX DESIGNER / PROJECT MANAGER

Web Wizards

I was responsible for designing, prototyping, developing and deploying the digital product fuelled by qualitative and quantitative research.

Project Management Digital Production Research Operations Prototyping

Experience & Product Design Lead

VML

Oct 2022 - Mar 2023 (5 months)

I focused on CX design, strategy and execution for a range of end-to-end omni-channel experiences to help new to electric vehicle customers understand Ford's offering and get the most out of their new cars.

CX Strategy

Group Product Design Lead

Canva

I was focused on leading the design, strategy and execution within a group that enables designers around the world to design elements and templates that empower over 85 million people to create amazing designs.

Product Design Strategy

Product Experience Manager / Product Designer

Advanced Human Imaging

I'm focused on app-based advanced machine learning & computer vision technology that accurately measures a person's vitals, health and wellbeing indicators using the device’s camera.

Machine Learning Computer Vision Mobile App Development Swift Kotlin Flutter React Native

Design Manager / Design Lead

HealthEngine

I crafted human-centered solutions for Web, Android & iOS that improved key usability metrics and helped increase a range of business fundamentals like retention, revenue and product usage.

Design Management Web Development Android Development iOS Development

Co-founder / Head of Product

Upstart Academy

I designed and developed prototypes that secured $90k in funding and successful entrants into two of Australia's leading startup accelerator programs.

Product Development Prototyping Startups