Christian Nam

Principal Consultant, Design Strategy

• Championing design strategy and design operations.
• Partnering with director and executive-level leaders to drive UX design practice growth.
• Coordinated Figma migrations for 3 clients, advising from procurement to advocacy.
• Managed cross-functional design systems teams.
• Presented the firm’s first Design Systems and Design Operations POV.

Forrester cited Kin + Carta for its “superior design, quality and productivity customer success factors with subject matter experts in experience design and information architecture, UI design, visual design, prototyping, and more.”

Product Designer

• Shaped the user experience vision for 4 gesture recognition applications and hardware.
• Introduced design sprints to encourage company-wide design thinking.
• Designed a smart watch performance tracking product for wheelchair track athletes in prepration for Rio 2016 Paralympics.

Freelance Designer

• Partnered with startups to perform qualitative and quantitative research.
• Created new concepts, information architecture, and interaction design deliverables.
• Crafted visual guidelines and art direction for digital campaigns and brand identity.