Lead Product Designer at Yelp
San Francisco, California
UX & Visual Designer @ Awasu Design From February 2013 to October 2014 (1 year 9 months) 539 Bryant St San Francisco, CA 94107Front End Web Developer & Visual Designer @ OpenMarketing From April 2012 to January 2013 (10 months) Visual Designer @ Guru Media Solutions - Worked on various branding projects for purpose-driven companies. Projects ranged...
UX & Visual Designer @ Awasu Design From February 2013 to October 2014 (1 year 9 months) 539 Bryant St San Francisco, CA 94107Front End Web Developer & Visual Designer @ OpenMarketing From April 2012 to January 2013 (10 months) Visual Designer @ Guru Media Solutions - Worked on various branding projects for purpose-driven companies. Projects ranged from print materials, to logo redesign to website design. From December 2014 to January 2015 (2 months) 330 Fell Street, San Francisco CA 94102Product Designer @ Yelp • Worked with a team to completely redesign the Yelp for Business Owner product, which included interviewing users, running workshops to understand business needs and developing interactive prototypes for user testing• Worked on designing the Homepage for mobile and desktop for our Alpha launch, which included working heavily with the eng teams for hand-off as well as PM and data science to define guardrail and primary metrics• Created an offshoot of the Yelp design system to focus on specific Business needs. Worked on creating documentation for the Biz team, which was later adopted as the template for the future Yelp design system documentation site• Worked with fellow product leads to migrate the design team from Abstract to Figma. In addition, was responsible for all library components in both migration and creation for the Biz team. San Francisco, CaliforniaSenior User Experience Designer @ EchoUser • Consulted at Apple to redesign an internal product that manages their third party resellers and approved service providers. • Consulted at Google in two separate occasions: • Worked with Greentea team to redesign their mobile application from Material One to Google material • Work with a team in redesigning the new Listnr by improving the interface, the flows and providing a clear on-boarding experience • Worked on Cases to create a cohesive visual design in the product but also help with the leveraging this work to advocate uniformity between different products in the Customer Engagement team.• Consulted for Cisco as a Senior Visual Designer responsible for: • Designing and speccing WebEx.com responsive pages in bootstrap compliant layouts for transition into Adobe Extension Manager (AEM) • Using Rally, QA’d coded AEM pages and worked with dev to address bugs • Reimagined UX for pricing page of WebEx.com • Crafting UX for WebEx on-boarding process by designing Request a Demo flow • Redesigned “Test A Meeting” flow experience • Assisted and designed Demand Generation projects ranging from explainer videos, PDF case studies, flash banners, etc. From January 2015 to October 2018 (3 years 10 months) San Francisco, CaliforniaGraphic Designer Contractor @ Pen Brothers • Redesigning the Logo and Branding Materials• Creating the content strategy for the current Marketing site• Redesigning the Website to be more user friendly• Creating branding and print collateral for subsidiary company, Kanela Gin Bar From March 2014 to February 2015 (1 year) Manila, PhilippinesUI Designer @ AVG - Design and code installers for multiple platforms- Currently working on redesign for marketplace- General Web Design and Web Banner Design From January 2012 to August 2012 (8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaGraphic/Web Designer Contractor @ Aeromart worldwide - Designed and coded the entire website using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and Javascript- Redesigned logo- Designed Brand Identity (but not limited to) business cards, letterheads and envelopes From June 2011 to July 2011 (2 months) Metro Manila, PhilippinesGraphic/Web Designer Contractor @ Beyond Resort - Designed Brand Identity - Designed Logo- Designed and Coded (HTML5, CSS3, PHP and jQuery) current website From June 2011 to July 2011 (2 months) Batangas City, PhilippinesPoster Winner @ Asian Street Heritage Celebration - One of two winners of the annual ASHC poster contest - Created promotional material including (but not limited to): Bus sheltered ads, Magazine ads and plaques- Featured on AsianWeek Magazine May 2011 From January 2011 to May 2011 (5 months) San Francisco, CaliforniaGraphic Designer Intern @ SPdL Marketing Strategies - Code front-end HTML/CSS websites- Designed and coded company website- Designed SPDL logo From February 2010 to September 2010 (8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaLead UX Designer @ Paramount Life & General Insurance Corporation - Focus on improving engagement on the site by reducing bounce rate and increasing conversion by creating clearer content- Recruited and ran user interviews- Ran UX workshop for content brainstorming and task prioritization- Designed high fidelity wireframes and visual designs- Coded prototypes- Ran A/B testing From September 2015 to December 2015 (4 months) Sage House, 110 V.A. Rufino St, Makati, Metro Manila
Awasu Design
UX & Visual Designer
February 2013 to October 2014
539 Bryant St San Francisco, CA 94107
OpenMarketing
Front End Web Developer & Visual Designer
April 2012 to January 2013
Guru Media Solutions
Visual Designer
December 2014 to January 2015
330 Fell Street, San Francisco CA 94102
Yelp
Product Designer
San Francisco, California
EchoUser
Senior User Experience Designer
January 2015 to October 2018
San Francisco, California
Pen Brothers
Graphic Designer Contractor
March 2014 to February 2015
Manila, Philippines
AVG
UI Designer
January 2012 to August 2012
San Francisco Bay Area
Aeromart worldwide
Graphic/Web Designer Contractor
June 2011 to July 2011
Metro Manila, Philippines
Beyond Resort
Graphic/Web Designer Contractor
June 2011 to July 2011
Batangas City, Philippines
Asian Street Heritage Celebration
Poster Winner
January 2011 to May 2011
San Francisco, California
SPdL Marketing Strategies
Graphic Designer Intern
February 2010 to September 2010
San Francisco Bay Area
Paramount Life & General Insurance Corporation
Lead UX Designer
September 2015 to December 2015
Sage House, 110 V.A. Rufino St, Makati, Metro Manila
International School Manila
High School, General Education
1998 to 2007
Academy of Art University
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), New Media & Web Design
2009 to 2012
University of San Francisco
Undergraduate, Marketing, Minor in Graphic Design
2007 to 2009
California College of the Arts
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Design Strategy
2019 to 2021
What company does Virgilio Leynes work for?
Virgilio Leynes works for Awasu Design
What is Virgilio Leynes's role at Awasu Design?
Virgilio Leynes is UX & Visual Designer
What industry does Virgilio Leynes work in?
Virgilio Leynes works in the Design industry.
Who are Virgilio Leynes's colleagues?
Virgilio Leynes's colleagues are Devaj Mitra, Devon Wright, Tyler Argo, Ryan Freeman, Sam Hillman, Ali Work, Jeffrey II, Saeed Mahani, Tyler Roscoe, and Andrew Lau
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