JR Reyes
Product Designer
Detail-oriented and focused on efficient, future-proofed, and accessible user experience solutions utilizing skills developed in the creative industry to gain consensus, build mutually beneficial relationships with partners and clients, establishing successful features and products.
Designing kindness.
Experience
Freelance and Consulting
Now
I’m a free agent. Currently I’m working for SpotGamma as a design consultant, building out a design system and making their product more approachable for a wider audience.
I’m also helping with product design for Wind Creek Casino, updating their hospitality mobile app that’s focused on integrating their physical casino locations and their amenities with their online gaming experience.
In between, I’m providing photography needs more local town of Anacortes, WA. All this under my sole proprietorship juniormonkey.
If you’re looking to fulfill any design or product needs, feel free to reach out – I’m more than happy to have a chat.
Senior Product Designer @ SeekOut
2022–2024
I needed a break from the gaming industry, so I dove head-first into an area that I absolutely had no expertise in - HR tech. I didn’t know these users. I couldn’t speak for them, and I had no immediate resource to learn more about them. For two years, I learned how to relate to an extremely niche audience from the ground up, and learned to understand user behaviors that were completely foreign to me. With the help of customer representatives and a banging design team, I was able to create a career management and profile system that would help clients steer their employees through their individual journeys within their company.
Product Designer @ Xbox
2015–2022
Being the longest position I had, being a product designer at Xbox gave me a lot of opportunities to learn and evolve with the design industry. My time there saw the shift from physical media, and the boom of online subscription services, prompting the Xbox products and features I worked on to adjust accordingly. My work to launch Game Pass and it’s following iterations became a leading example of what “Netflix for video games” looked like.
I became an expert in the console gaming industry, advocating for the gamers best interests and how they wanted to navigate and manage their game libraries and collections.
My time here also saw the dawn of tools like Sketch and Figma, showcasing the impact of design systems and componentry on brand and experience reinforcement. I now evangelize design systems as a core requirement within products to become successful and help streamline company’s design process.
UX Designer @ MSN
2011–2015
My time at MSN introduced me to cross-platform design. As a monetization designer, I provided design solutions across all browsers and platforms where I iteration on industry-leading forms of ad placements and sponsored content. Looking back at my time here, display monetization wasn’t the most prestigious design position to be in, but it did teach me to design for revenue.
Designer @ SolutionsIQ
2007–2011
I wore at a lot of hats at SolutionsIQ.
I designed and curated their website and collateral material, which resulted in a unified company brand throughout all customer-facing platforms.
I designed application and web interfaces for select clients such as Wizards of the Coast, BeDynamic, and Precor, launching their first friendly, customer-focused online experiences.
I created concept art for demonstration games and reels presented to potential video game clients, allowing them to visualize what the final product could like on release.
Being the sole designer for SolutionsIQ helped me learn to self-direct and manage priorities based on ambiguous tasks and feedback.
Career
Now – Freelance and Consulting
2022–2024 - Senior Product Designer @ SeekOut
2015–2022 - Product Designer @ Xbox
2011–2015 - UX Designer @ MSN
2007–2011 - Designer @ SolutionsIQ
2006–2007 - Designer @ Volt
2004–2006 - Print and Web Designer @ Pacific Galleries
2003–2004 - Print Designer @ Moscow-Pullman Daily News