Chris Mair

Chris Mair

Chris Mair

Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

Multi-disciplinary product designer with 9 years of 

user-centric experience in digital product design.

A multi-disciplinary skillset, from facilitating user research and product strategy, through to highly considered UX prototyping, UI design, interaction design, usability testing and workshop facilitation. Extensive design experience in AI, mobile apps, web, OOH and XR for an array of both B2C and B2B products across varied use cases.

Multi-disciplinary product designer with 9 years of 

user-centric experience in digital product design.

A multi-disciplinary skillset, from facilitating user research and product strategy, through to highly considered UX prototyping, UI design, interaction design, usability testing and workshop facilitation. Extensive design experience in AI, mobile apps, web, OOH and XR for an array of both B2C and B2B products across varied use cases.

Multi-disciplinary product designer with 9 years of 

user-centric experience in digital product design.

A multi-disciplinary skillset, from facilitating user research and product strategy, through to highly considered UX prototyping, UI design, interaction design, usability testing and workshop facilitation. Extensive design experience in AI, mobile apps, web, OOH and XR for an array of both B2C and B2B products across varied use cases.

Skills

Skills

Skills

Product Design | UX Design | UI Design | Interaction Design | User Research | 3D modelling | 3D/2D Animation

Tools

Tools

Tools

Figma | Adobe Creative Suite | Blender | Unity | Jira | Miro

Senior Product Designer
Ultraleap
Apr 2021 - Aug 2024 - 3 years, Bristol, UK

Utilising world leading AI hand tracking technology, I was responsible for leading product design for existing and new to market B2B and B2C products at a fast paced Series D startup. Working in cross-disciplinary product teams, aligning with engineers, VPs and product owners, I facilited user research activities, contributed to product strategy, designed customer journeys and highly considered interfaces from low to high fidelity Figma prototypes, worked closely with engineers to execute those designs, and conducted extensive usability testing.


Leading design and research for the TouchFree product, I consistently championed the end user through an unwaveringly user-centric design process, ensuring that spatial interactions and interfaces met user expectation in challenging use cases. Working with VPs, engineering and ML teams, I ensured that interactions pushed what was possible by improving the technology while meeting technology limitations. Redesigning the B2B TouchFree application interface and creating documentation, I dramatically improved the build and setup process for engineering teams, leading to faster software integrations.
In XR, I led design for new to market products in a cross-disciplinary product team. Designing AR smart glasses experience using bleeding edge computer vision technology, I conducted end to end product design, by facilitating research, product direction, UX and UI design.


Throughout my tenure, I worked with several external big name brands. Notably, creating an automotive integration where understanding the customer was critical to designing quality interface and user experience.

UI/UX Designer
Center of Excellence in Mobile and Emerging Technology
Jan 2017 - Mar 2021 - 5 years, Cardiff, UK

In this role I led 0 to 1 design projects from, research and ideation to low to high fidelity prototyping and usability testing, ready for market testing, and future investment. Working closely with external stakeholders, I designed quality experiences with highly considered utilisation of emerging and mobile technologies.

During my time in this position I designed applications in iOS / Android, IoT, web, intelligent voice assistants, AI, VR, MR, AR and data visualisation across a large number of sectors from fintech, social networking, personal assistants, e-commerce, medical, and many more. On starting the position I brought in user researching and usability testing across all projects, raising quality and delivering more targeted solutions for clients. Always a strong user advocate I altered the culture of the organisation to always put the user first during the conceptualisation and development process.

UI/UX Designer
Center of Excellence in Mobile and Emerging Technology
Jan 2017 - Mar 2021 - 5 years, Cardiff, UK

In this role I led 0 to 1 design projects for external clients in mobile and emerging technologies such as AI and XR. Building projects from the ground up with ideation workshops, user research, customer journey mapping, low to high fidelity prototyping and usability testing, ready for market testing, and future investment. Working closely with external stakeholders, I designed quality experiences with highly considered utilisation of XR, AI and mobile technologies.

During my time in this position I designed applications in iOS / Android, IoT, web, intelligent voice assistants, AI, VR, MR, AR and data visualisation across a large number of sectors from fintech, social networking, personal assistants, e-commerce, medical, and many more. On starting the position I brought in user researching and usability testing across all projects, raising quality and delivering more targeted solutions for clients. Always a strong user advocate I altered the culture of the organisation to always put the user first during the conceptualisation and development process.

Designer
Newwave Design
Jul 2015 - Dec 2016 - 1 year, Abergavenny, UK

During this role I conducted UX and UI activities across a range of responsive web projects including many e-commerce sites. My role involved working within a cross-functional team of designers and engineers to conduct market analysis, create initial concepts, present to clients, design the architecture and UI of websites and work closely with engineers to ensure a smooth and quality delivery of the product. This also involved continuous improvements and updates to our products.

During my time there I also completed a number of branding, marketing and packaging projects for large supermarkets, auctioneers and service businesses.

Designer
Newwave Design
Jul 2015 - Dec 2016 - 1 year, Abergavenny, UK

During this role I conducted UX and UI activities across a range of responsive web projects including many e-commerce sites. My role involved working within a cross-functional team of designers and engineers to conduct market analysis, create initial concepts, present to clients, design the architecture and UI of websites and work closely with engineers to ensure a smooth and quality delivery of the product. This also involved continuous improvements and updates to our products.

Education:

1st Class BA Hons
Graphic Communication
Sep 2012 - Jun 2015 - 3 years, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK