About me

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HOWDY!

I'm a 3rd-career UX designer living in Los Angeles with my wife, dog, and cat. I’ve switched careers 3 times and possess 29 culmulative years working in different careers, which gives me a variety of perspectives that is valuable to UX.

My 1st career for 11 years was architecture - designing restaurants, museums, office interiors, and housing. This taught me critical thinking, an iterative design process, and that form follows function.

My 2nd career for 6 years was IT and desktop support. I learned the essentials of server setups, application troubleshooting, user empathy - and the value of redundant backups!

UX is my 3rd and favorite career. I enjoy the problem-solving that combines technology, design systems, and helping people. As a strong believer in “form follows function”, I love to design useful, digital tools that improve people’s lives.

 

PRopS & KUDOS

J. Nordberg15+ years experience leading innovative work with global clients.August 2013See J. on LinkedIn >

J. Nordberg

15+ years experience leading innovative work with global clients.

August 2013

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Quito brings an incredible wealth of experience and knowledge to our team. He is also a rare breed, marrying deep technical understanding with boundless ideas and creativity. His fundamental knowledge and curiosity of how things work – both as an architectural and UX designer – make him a real asset. Quito has effortlessly floated between experience and interaction design for our products on iOS, Android, Xbox, Roku and other platforms. No small feat. He brings the highest level of professionalism, communication and insight to the office on a daily basis. On top of that, he's a joy to work with and a fantastic person.”

 

 
Vijay Anand KrishnanManager, Management Consulting at Strive Consulting, LLCMay 2015See Vijay on LinkedIn >

Vijay Anand Krishnan

Manager, Management Consulting at Strive Consulting, LLC

May 2015

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It's rare that you come across standout talent like Quito. I had the pleasure of working closely with Quito for 15 months at Disney, collaborating on several interface design tasks for features within the My Disney Experience mobile app on iOS and Android. Among a long list of positive traits I've noticed while working with Quito, I was particularly impressed with his attention to details and organization skills, which in a face-paced environment, were extremely valuable qualities. As a product manager, I greatly appreciated Quito's willingness to tackle competing priorities in multiple projects and his expectations-management skills. Quito expertly filled in as the Interaction Design Lead and helped translate the product organization's vision into palpable mobile experiences that our users loved. Quito is an affable individual and a hardworking professional who would be a true asset to any team.”

 

 
Cody KingSenior UX Designer, at ADPJuly 2020See Cody on LinkedIn >

Cody King

Senior UX Designer, at ADP

July 2020

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“For a few months now, Quito and I have been working on an incredibly complicated project together at ADP. I was introduced to him by a UX Director who thought that some of the work that Quito was doing would be a great way to approach the current problem that I was working on. Once introduced, he explained his approach, how to do it, why it makes sense, how others can leverage it as well as how it can help team alignment. His processes, throughout the lifecycle of the project, helped to keep things organized, understandable, consistent and reusable for other teams. He contributed a TON of great ideas to help the project move forward throughout the various challenges. These abilities clearly show Quito’s skill, organization, talent and maturity of as a UXD. Working with him has helped me grow considerably as a UXD – and for that I am truly grateful. Thanks Quito for all your help, it was really awesome to work with you on that project and I hope we get to collaborate again soon.”

 

See more and my complete profile on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quitobanogon