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Taya Arnone is a designer and illustrator with nine years of experience at Microsoft, Google, and Snap. Her work spans illustration, book design, visual storytelling, and digital experiences. She loves creating thoughtful, playful visuals that help stories and ideas come to life. You can find her work samples at tayaarnone.com
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English
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Visual & AR Designer at Snap
June 1, 2023 - April 30, 2024Utilized human-centered design principles to envision and produce concepts to build a visual language and ethos for Snap’s next generation augmented reality glasses. Created, refined, and prepared design concepts, structural frameworks, and game interfaces for product design presentations to leadership team and the CEO. Designed, managed, and maintained key component libraries to ensure a clean and consistent product visual language. Used modern design trends to develop artwork for Snap’s premium features and created highly user-engaged content during 2024.
Visual Designer at Microsoft
January 1, 2022 - April 30, 2023Collaborated with product teams to envision how Microsoft privacy could be visually represented within the Windows product experience. Explored new AI solutions with design leadership on potential roles for AI in privacy and security technology. Worked cross-functionally to establish a cohesive visual narrative that helped users understand Microsoft’s values on privacy. Also envisioned and created new brand direction, design system, and brand story for Microsoft Family—conveying trust and comfort grounded in sophistication and playfulness. Created in-product illustrations in multiple styles (2D/3D) to fit user flows, and provided feedback to ensure product consistency, aesthetics, and clear functionality.
Visual Designer at Google Trust & Safety
November 1, 2020 - July 31, 2021Weaved iconography, typography, color, space, and texture to help users navigate Google products. Created user interfaces, dashboards, branding, and helped the Trust & Safety team researchers tell their stories with the intention of making the internet a safer place free of violence, hate, abuse, and harm. Utilized key user-centered design principles to produce high-quality visuals—from concept to execution and across different platforms. Collaborated with other designers to refine design language and create innovative products inspired by design ethos that people love to use.
Communications Designer at Google Maps
May 31, 2019 - November 29, 2020Synthesized highly technical content such as development program updates, user research findings, consumer segmentation insights, and data analytics into compelling messaging. Crafted and wove content into engaging and memorable messaging aimed at audiences ranging from global UX team members to Google executives. Produced design assets including presentations, illustrations, infographics, videos, printed materials, emails, websites, templates, branding, and contributed illustrations to the Google Maps platform UI. Held workshops, generated presentation design guidelines, and delivered design ethos presentations to Google Maps team members worldwide.
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