Greg Wong
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Greg Wong

Head of Product Design ✨ in Brooklyn

Forming and exploring AI image generation prompts

3 months ago

About

NYC Design Leader building product experiences for future-shaping teams
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As a Design Lead with 10+ years of expertise across edtech, eCommerce, fintech, hospitality, healthcare, and AI, I build intuitive user experiences and lead with future-forward strategic vision.

I care about elevating the impact of design, ideating from user insights, and growing products with AI. My depth of expertise spans across UX design, product strategy, design systems, user insights, growth design and brand marketing.

Today I'm a Fractional Design Lead collaborating with edtech companies that are mission-driven and building a future on emerging AI technologies. Most recently I was the Head of Product Design and UX Strategy at n2y, where I built up a full design function from scratch. My mission was to radically improve usability, build strategy from user insight discovery and reimagine the future of core products enabled by gen AI.

Work Experience

2017 — Now
Fractional Design Lead (Product UX + Brand) at Gimongo LLC
New York

• Led and delivered user-centered product initiatives from strategic journey analysis through delivery to improve usability
• Managed and coach creative teams to build team culture and agile workflow optimization
• Crafted Figma design systems for commerce, fintech, and edtech products
• Developed Gen AI creative prompt techniques and developed branded creative content with Chat GPT 4.o and Dalle-3
• Led foundational brand identity and consumer reach strategy
• Guided early stage companies on their design team recruiting and hiring processes

2023 — Now
Remote

• Built up a mature product design function from the ground up.
• Directed and managed a design and research team of 4.
• Established a new product development culture and pod processes in collaboration with product and engineering leadership.
• Led design-driven product vision sprints to radically rethink the user experience with AI innovation.

n2y is the leading provider of special education learning content and classroom technology. Our research-based integrated solutions are designed specifically to help unique learners achieve in life from Pre-K through 12.

2022 — 2023
Remote

• Leading design for Core Functionality – improving foundational workflows and delighters for a next-gen payments platform (much like Venmo for business accounting teams).
• Now building new vendor management functionality – from user research to delivery.

2021 — 2022
New York

• Improved consumer experience for the world's fastest global eCommerce checkout
• Researched user needs to effectively improve global localization and logistics
• Revamped design system to meet display complexity and SMB merchant needs

2020 — 2021
New York

• Designed a next-gen fintech wealth management platform
• Established the "Trolley" Figma design system
• Led sourcing and recruiting of product designers

2019 — 2020
New York

• Crafted consumer and enterprise eCommerce products, led user research, and fostered a new team design culture

2018 — 2019
New York

• Created member experiences with behavioral economics principles to create enterprise savings ($2.5+ million at scale)

2014 — 2017
New York

• Led teams, digital innovation, and started a digital trends podcast

Side Projects

2021

New brand identity for a community health care provider

Volunteering

2022 — Now
Interwebs

Helping a global community of designers with career guidance and maximizing individual value

2020 — Now
Interwebs

Judging for "The Internet's highest honor” – produced by IADAS

2007 — 2016
New York

Produced fundraisers and brand campaigns to help survivors of sex-trafficking in NYC

Education

Earth

Design Management #ODD2

Berkeley, California

Media Studies + Business Administration

Pasadena, California

Graphic Design + Designmatters

Contact

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Teams

Current
n2y (edtech)