I build UX design teams that...
...to create valuable, usable and beautiful experiences that customers love.
My Story
At school, I started drawing things because it was fun. People seemed to enjoy my doodles, gave me compliments, and as a kid with low self-esteem, the validation felt pretty good. I enrolled in art classes at school before even knowing there were careers in drawing. These doodles led to graphic design, architectural model making, and then an undergraduate degree in industrial design visualization, which included a year-long internship at Audi in Germany where I was forced to learn the language, drive amazing cars around campus and eat good chocolate. I got my first real job in the U.S. as an engineering contractor at Nissan in Detroit, then migrated west to Seattle and found work in medical device design, eventually leading an engineering team designing new ra...
My Peers
"Champions of great user experiences don’t simply make products better for their users. They also make the people making the products better. I am a better leader, and designer, because of working with Wayne"
Linkedin: Chris Irwin - Creative director, Google Assistant
"A key thing I look for when joining a company and/or team is their culture and values. A group that focuses on their users but also aim to grow talent, open doors and enable opportunities. This is at the core of Wayne Higgins."
Linkedin: Carl Thomas - Senior interaction designer, Google
"The key reason I chose to work with Microsoft was the opportunity to work with and learn from extraordinary people, Wayne is a key example of that person."
Linkedin: Prashanth GanapathyRaj - Product Lead, Customer and Partner success, Microsoft