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Dennis Kim
Product Designer in LA
About
0–1 product designer experienced in healthcare, life sciences, AI, and cybersecurity. Operated as sole designer, leading design sprints, stakeholder workshops, and product strategy. Skilled at uniting technical, business, and user goals into data-rich, insight-driven solutions.
Work Experience
Dec 2021 - Nov 2025
Senior UX Designer at Graphika (Click to view full case study)
Remote



- Sole designer for two platform launches (v1 and v2), introducing new feature sets and full UI redesigns that enhanced the social network analysis experience.
- Owned the full product design lifecycle—discovery, ideation, prototyping, and delivery—guiding cross-functional workshops that informed product-market fit and streamlined delivery by 20%.
- Established recurring product alignment meetings with leadership, reducing rework cycles and increasing delivery confidence.
- Built and maintained a scalable design system ensuring visual consistency, smoother developer handoff, and faster feature release cycles.
- Authored user stories, acceptance criteria, and documentation that improved design-dev handoff and reduced post-release design fixes.
- Designed data visualization systems and information-dense workflows to surface network intelligence insights.
Jun 2018 - Nov 2021
UX Designer at Intrepid Pursuits (Acquired by Accenture)
Boston, MA



- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and deliver digital products for clients in life sciences, automotive, and education industries.
- Education: Led the full product design cycle for a student growth platform—conducted usability tests, design sprints, and feedback sessions—resulting in improved user focus and engagement among beta testers.
- Automotive: Partnered with an external client as a hybrid UX Designer and product strategist, conducting discovery workshops, contextual inquiries, and card sorting exercises to shape product direction and feature prioritization.
- Life Sciences: Drove a rapid two-week design sprint to deliver a mobile app MVP, creating 30 high-fidelity screens from a research brief and accelerating client decision-making on go-to-market strategy.
- Supported consistency and scalability by developing modular UI components and establishing reusable design patterns across multiple clients.
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
UX Designer at Phyn (Contract)
Torrance, CA
Feb 2015 - Sep 2017
UX Designer at InvestCloud
Los Angeles, CA
Earlier: UX/UI Consultant at Dogtown Media, IT & Project Specialist at UBTOS Inc.
Experiments (Coming Soon)
Education
BA in Philosophy at University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA
UX Design at General Assembly
Santa Monica, CA
Contact
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