A seasoned Senior Designer with 10+ years of experience who resides in Ontario, Canada. Specializing in UI/UX design, visual development & design systems.
Current tools:
- Figma
- HTML/CSS
- JS
- Windsurf
- Claude Code
carterj.gfx@gmail.com
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EXPERIENCE
- Contributed to the Dialtone design system by creating new visual assets for product and marketing teams, addressing bugs, and pushing front-end code for feature integration.
- Wrote comprehensive documentation for new Dialtone features and developed design ops libraries to significantly improve overall design team productivity.
- Led the design and implementation of a next-generation theming token infrastructure, creating dynamic UI color schemes to enhance accessibility and strengthen support for color blindness.
- Collaborated directly with front-end engineers to integrate new design tokens into Dialtone's CSS and Vue.js codebase.
- Rebuilt Figma components to ensure seamless code integration and compatibility with an AI tooling server (MCP).
Product Designer, Design Systems
McAfee ↗
June 2021 - January 2025
Remote & Waterloo, ON
- Led design efforts for McAfee’s design system. Built and maintained core UI components, foundations, icons and illustrations within a unified design library that enabled productivity, creativity and consistency within brand for the design teams.
- Collaborated with front-end engineer teams to establish specifications for UI elements and build design system tokens/plugins.
- Facilitated the design experience for McAfee’s flagship UWP/10S product by creating and designing user flows, journey maps, wireframes and design specs.
- Thoroughly communicated design ideas and outcomes to McAfee’s key stakeholders and employed user research/data to help build customer-focused experiences.
- Created high fidelity visuals that help users navigate through McAfee’s web products & extensions. Collaborated with engineers and designers by bringing visuals, prototypes, UI components and style guidelines to the table.
Graphic Designer
Oxygen Group
October 2014 - June 2015
Waterloo, ON
- Contributed to the creation of school education textbooks for grades one to five by structuring written content and creating layouts/illustrations with a design team.
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EDUCATION
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