I'm Thor.

A hands-on design leader

15 years of user-centric design experience on consumer and enterprise products across platforms, leading cross-functional collaborations to solve customer problems

  • Scaled Amazon Care nationwide virtual care experience

  • Built Adobe AI Automated Tasks from scratch; shortened 96% enterprise and SMB license deployment time of Adobe products

  • Enabled Rhumbix construction foremen to finish daily timecard in 5 mins

  • Founded Cubefree app in Citrix

  • Coached and promoted 3 designers within a year; rated as 80%+ favorable manager in employee surveys at Adobe

Passionate about creating UX in healthcare and emerging technologies where multi-disciplines met; and building an effective team and influential design culture

 
 

Service Quick Access

Designing a quick access experience for common used services for Amazon Care users on iOS and Android mobile apps

2021, Amazon care

First Mile for Business Administration

A design initiative guided different personas through the Adobe product license deployment journey across multiple surfaces. The solution framework covered the initial setup process and extended itself to be an ongoing contextual guidance standard

2018 - 2020, Adobe

Creative Cloud Automated Task

A design innovation utilizing AI technology and scripts to automate repetitive manual production works for creatives, building an app with AI services from 0 to 1

2018 - 2020, Adobe

Photographer-Trained AI for Photographers

Exploring AI-powered automation service ideas for Lightroom CC to reduce photographers' repetitive manual works

2019, Adobe

Modernized Timekeeping

Taking Design Thinking approach to solve a decade-old problem in the construction industry by designing a mobile app matching users' mental model and diverse workflows

2016 Oct. - 2017 Mar. Rhumbix

Stop Wage Theft Cards

Designing a graphical instruction card to guide filed labors, activating Google Map Timeline feature as legal proof of working hours for fair pay

2017 - 2019, Stop Wage Theft

Construction Ecosystem

Physicalizing personas and scenarios in the construction industry by building a LEGO model

2016 & 2017, Rhumbix

Designing Leadership and Management

Strategy and tactics as a first-time design manager

2018, Adobe

 
 
 

 

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

 
He is an effective leader. Thor’s A+ talents include transforming creative thoughts into actionable, organized details; managing team and process efficiently; balancing long-term vision with short-term deliverables; turning complex user needs into simple solutions; and identifying work that is needed and just doing it without being asked.
— Reid Senescu, Sr. Director of Product Management

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He has a real knack for researching and visualizing complex ideas.
— Ryan Milewicz, Product Designer

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Thor’s willingness to embrace ambiguity, deeply understand customer problems and our underlying technologies helped him to build credibility with everyone he worked with.
— Matthew Saunders, Director of Design