Simon Corry
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Simon Corry

Head of Design in Brooklyn, NY, He/Him

Hiring for a senior level product designer...

4 months ago

About

Head of Design @Antimetal by day, gamer at night. Physics junkie and an 8-bit nerd.

Projects

2020

Landing in a crowded market, Fabric defined itself by becoming the first one-stop-shop for all your family's financial needs; combining wills, life insurance and financial planning in a secure and easy to use app.

2016

Highfive set a new bar, improving the ease and quality of video conferencing with many of its core features going on to influence products such as Zoom, Slack and Apple's FaceTime.

Awards

2015
19th Annual Webby Awards Official Honoree from The Webby Awards
2012
One Show Interactive Merit Award from The One Club
2011
Award for Design Prestige from The CSS Awards, International
2010
Award for Design Prestige from The CSS Awards, International
2010
14th Annual Webby Awards Official Honoree from The Webby Awards
2009
Award for Typographic Excellence from Type Directors Club, New York
2008
Award for Featured Story Design, Pub 43 from The Society of Publication Designers

Features

2012
Awwwards: The Best 365 on Awwwards

Awwwards is a printed book about the best websites of the 2011. 365 days and 180 pages, collect all the winner websites of 2011. Every page presents three different css websites, each website is developed with css, jquery, xhtml, ajax or javascript.The Design, the creativity, the usability and the content. In this book, you will see great portfolios, high level of creativity, and impressive use of the code.

2012
The Future of Type on HOW, F+W Media Inc.

The July issue of HOW magazine touts the best of two worlds, including when they both intersect: typography and web design. Devour this issue and you'll be inspired by the latest typography trends, including those on the web. Plus, is interactive design a part of your design job? Or, do you hope to keep a leg in both worlds? Don't miss the valuable information on web design in this issue, including a breakdown of how important data can influence your web designs. You'll also find winners from the Color in Design Awards within this issue. Dig in below to the individual downloads of some of the columns and features from this issue.

2010
Awwwards: The Best 365 Websites on Awwwards

Awwwards is a printed book about the best websites of the 2010. 365 days and 180 pages, collect all the winner websites of 2010. Every page presents three different css websites, each website is developed with css, jquery, xhtml, ajax or javascript.The Design, the creativity, the usability and the content. In this book, you will see great portfolios, high level of creativity, and impressive use of the code.

2010
Typography 30 on Collins Design

This color Annual includes the winning selections from entries into the TDC55 Typography Competition, and the winning selections from entries into the TDC2 2009 Type Design Competition.

2008
New York Times Magazine on NYTimes

Hand rendered typography for the 2008 college edition of the New York Times Magazine.

Work Experience

2020 — Now
2022 — Now
New York

Co-founder and Chief Design Officer responsible for the management of product, design and engineering teams as-well-as assuming the role of principle designer for all products and services — including frontend development (HTML, CSS & JavaScript via React). Other roles related to day-to-day operations, company management and fundraising.

2020 — 2022
New York

IC7 at one of the world’s largest tech companies (patents pending)—a hybrid role between leadership and practical application. Responsible for crafting strategy & leading design efforts across Young Adults and Navigation Architecture.

2018 — 2020
New York

Product lead and designer for the first consumer mobile app that combines wills, life insurance and financial services in one easy to use tool. The app was designed to help families demystify financial protection and tackle their adult to-do lists, together.

2016 — 2018
New York

Helping to craft an entirely new line of enterprise tools that enables the liquor industry to take control of their data and online sales. Responsible for leading, growing and aligning direction of product, design and engineering resources across the company as well as implementing strategic road-maps and objective based results (OKRs). Additionally designed and developed the web and mobile apps for our consumer product Strong Water.

2014 — 2016
San Francisco

Responsible for growing and leading a product design team across multiple rounds of funding. Architected an approach to decision making that was driven by a healthy combination of design process, customer research, data analysis and business objectives (OKRs). Oversaw the design and implementation of the products relaunch from proof of concept to feature rich with a variety of external tools for customers to access and action their data.

2012 — 2014
New York

Part of the core product team responsible for overseeing improvements to information architecture by working with a wide variety of departments. Helped to lead the transition from web to a mobile first strategy for content.

2010 — 2012
New York

Responsible for helping to design and build a variety of award winning interactive experiences for clients that put real people first and shared a believe in meaningful design for the common good.

2009 — 2010
Amsterdam

Part of the founding design team that worked on the user experience, visual design and branding for the companies initial product offering.

2007 — 2009

Worked with the studios principle to design and develop a range of websites for small to medium sized businesses looking for engaging and interactive solutions to better communicate and delight their audience.

2003 — 2006

Part of the team responsible for implementing an award winning site-wide redesign and subsequent iterations which ultimately enhanced the core product experience visited by millions of external customers, partners and staff every year.

Education

2004 — 2006