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I am a senior product designer and fractional design lead focused on complex, multi-platform digital products. I use lean, AI-assisted workflows and rapid prototyping to ship products people understand, use, and trust, and I’ve led UX and design systems work that helped startups and enterprises win pilots, funding, and scale to 20+ products.…

Christopher Allen

Product Designer, Creative Director, UX Designer, +2

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I am a senior product designer and fractional design lead focused on complex, multi-platform digital products. I use lean, AI-assisted workflows and rapid prototyping to ship products people understand, use, and trust, and I’ve led UX and design systems work that helped startups and enterprises win pilots, funding, and scale to 20+ products.…

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I am a senior product designer and fractional design lead focused on complex, multi-platform digital products. I use lean, AI-assisted workflows and rapid prototyping to ship products people understand, use, and trust, and I’ve led UX and design systems work that helped startups and enterprises win pilots, funding, and scale to 20+ products.

Skills

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Expert

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Intermediate

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Intermediate

Language

English

Fluent

Work Experience

Product Design Lead / Fractional Consultant at GrabTV

January 1, 2023 - Present

Led product design for an early-stage interactive video platform spanning web, mobile, and connected TV. Defined the core user experience for TV and mobile, mapping user flows, interaction models, and MVP scope with product and engineering. Built high-fidelity prototypes to test viewing, commerce mechanics, and content management tools before engineering investment. Established the production-ready UX used in securing multiple partner pilot programs and supporting additional capital investment.

Senior Product Designer at Dot Dash

January 1, 2019 - Present

Hybrid design digital product experiences for startups and enterprise clients across e-commerce, LMS, finance, media, manufacturing, and healthcare platforms. Apply design thinking across UX research, journey mapping, scalable design systems, and rapid prototyping to define problems and validate product concepts. Built a reusable design system adopted across 20 products to improve UI consistency and delivery speed. Enabled teams to validate product concepts earlier and reduce design-to-development friction.

Product Designer Lead / Chief Creative Officer at Grab Vision Group

January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2019

On-site designed and invented an interactive video platform spanning TV and mobile, defining a new viewer experience for engaging with video while shaping how interactive TV content is created. Led UX research, interaction design, prototyping, and front-end implementation to bring the product from concept to MVP while defining how the interaction model works. Introduced a novel method for interacting with video, resulting in U.S. Patent 10674230B2 and helping secure over $3M in investment funding.

Fractional Product Design Lead at GrabTV

January 1, 2023 - Present

Led product design for an early-stage interactive video platform across web, mobile, and connected TV. Defined core user experience for TV and mobile, mapped user flows, interaction models, and MVP scope with product and engineering. Built high-fidelity prototypes to test viewing, commerce mechanics, and content management tools before engineering investment. Established production-ready UX used in securing multiple partner pilots and supporting additional capital investment.

Product Design Lead / Chief Creative Officer at Grab Vision Group

January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2019

On-site lead for an interactive video platform spanning TV and mobile. Directed UX research, interaction design, prototyping, and front-end implementation to bring the product from concept to MVP, while defining the interaction model. Introduced a novel method for interacting with video, resulting in U.S. Patent 10674230B2 and helping secure over $3M in investment funding.