Himgan Wibisono
I am a seasoned product designer with over a decade of experience and deep knowledge in user-interface & user-experience design for consumer products, social media and multi-platform systems. I am currently the Head of Design for Jiff and a member of its founding team, designing a communication and app platform for the healthcare space. In addition, I am also the Designer in Residence at Ooga Labs providing design advice and assistance to various startups it is engaged in. Prior to all this I led design teams and design efforts at MyWire, Samsung, Macromedia/Adobe, Sony and MetaDesign. I earned my master of design from Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
EXPERIENCE
Jiff, Inc.
Head of Design · Palo Alto, CA · 2010 - Present
Ooga Labs
Designer in Residence · Palo Alto, CA · 2010 - Present
MyWire
Director of Design · Redwood City, CA · 2008 - 2010
As an integral part of the product management team that works closely with the CEO and the engineering team, I direct and manage MyWire's design efforts in order to translate business objectives and technical requirements into compelling design solutions. With the goal of connecting users to high-quality digital content from various publishers around the world, MyWire's design approach focuses on creating an online marketplace that visiblecases its partners' content and makes it easy to discover.
Samsung Electronics Inc. // Samsung Design America
UI Design Manager · San Francisco, CA · 2007 - 2008
I managed and led a UI design team for one of Samsung's six global design offices. My objective was to establish an experience-centric design practice that would assist Samsung in expanding its capabilities from traditional consumer electronics manufacturer to become the leading producer of integrated consumer electronic solutions. Products: Samsung LifeDiary, B2B Printer Experience, InfoLink
Adobe Systems Inc. (Macromedia Inc.) // XD Group
SR UX Designer · San Francisco, CA · 2004 - 2007
As a member of the Experience Design group, my work's objective was to identify, design/architect and apply UI patterns in order to advance Macromedia's brand through the experience users have with its products and the experience those products help them create. Products/projects: Flex 2.0, Breeze 5.0 and 601 Townsend's AV Control Panels.
Sony Electronics Inc. // Sony Design Center
Interaction/User-Centered Designer · San Francisco, CA · 2001 - 2004
As lead user-researcher within the interaction design team, my responsibilities in various projects include: designing and conducting research initiatives, transforming research findings and product requirements into appropriate interaction models, and leading and managing projects. Completed projects cover areas of: wireless communication, media-entertainment management, home-server services, peer-to-peer solutions and others. Products/projects: Sony Connect Music Store, Sony Cable-Card HD DVR (DHG-HDD)
MetaDesign
Interaction/User-Centered Designer · San Francisco, CA · 2000 - 2001
A member of an interdisciplinary team whose main responsibility is to integrate user-centered design practices within the framework of interaction design and information architecture. Clients: Netflix, Hewitt Associates, Barclay Bank, Ocean Conservancy and others.
EDUCATION
Institute of Design // Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL. 1999
Master of Design: Human-Centered Communication Design track. IBM Fellow.
College of Architecture // Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL. 1997
Bachelor of Architecture, High Honors Graduate
KNOWLEDGE + SKILLS
Design Management, Product Management, UI Design, Ethnographic Research, Information Architecture, Design Planning, Rapid Paper Prototyping, Electronic Prototyping (Flash, HTML)
PATENT
Digital Video Recorder Interface
Patent Disclosure Awards. 2004
20060080716
Method and apparatus for navigating video content
20050216935
Filter criteria and results display apparatus and method
20050213928
Method and apparatus for managing video storage
20050108756
Interactive program guide with preferred items list apparatus and method
20050108755
Multi-source programming guide apparatus and method
20050108752
3-Dimensional browsing and selection apparatus and method
20050108750
Candidate data selection and display apparatus and method
20050108749
Automatic content display apparatus and method
20050108748
Display filter criteria and results display apparatus and method
Peer to Peer Solutions
Patent Disclosure Awards. 2003
20040002920
Managing and sharing identities on a network
20030233399
Initializing relationships between devices in a network