Matt McMillan

Talla is an early-stage VC backed startup, looking to automate tasks for enterprise companies using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and chatbots.

• Created complicated conversational interfaces, users flows, and experiences across multiple projects and chat platforms.
• Managed multiple UX and UI designers across several marketing and product initiatives.
• Consistently delivered high-quality designs for the marketing team including banners, handouts, and display tables.
• Helped to quickly define and deliver quality user experiences in order to determine the best path forward

Drync is an iOS application that allows users to scan wine labels to learn, rate, and even purchase wine to be delivered to their door.

• Brought on to help completely over-haul the UX/UI of the iOS app, web, and mobile web experiences.
• Worked closely with iOS developers on interactions, animations, and transitions in order to take create an engaging experience.
• Delivered eye-catching signage, stickers, and displays that were used to elevate brand awareness inside of wine and liquor stores across the country.
• Worked with product and engineering teams to deliver on new features such as wine clubs and multiple wine recommendation experiences.
• Helped increase sales by optimizing and streamlining the wine bottle scanning flows and checkout processes.

• Responsible for user experience and creative direction across all mobile ad products, consumer mobile apps, and websites.
• Worked on large consumer initiatives which included User Research and testing.
• Engaged with large cross-functional teams including leads across the organization from around the world.
• Worked to solve complicated product issues by unifying the UX/UI of major ad products and addressing the needs and concerns of multiple teams within the org.

• Responsible for the design of the company site, marketing collateral, and products including social web games, iPhone apps and web sites.
• Art directed freelance designers/internal artists and worked closely with dev team to bring web projects to completion.
• Often hand coded HTML/CSS and helped large social networks customize viximo content to fit their own look and feel.

• Responsible for all web creative, marketing collateral, and MMORPG/Virtual World UI elements including game UI.
• Created game cards which were sold nationally in Target stores.
• Art Directed a team of Senior Designers to help with web initiatives.

• Started as lead designer and worked up to Creative director role.
• Balanced multiple projects on different timelines while directing Jr. Designers.
• Worked directly with dev team to ensure quality all the way to project completion.
• Worked directly with clients, scheduled design reviews and gave design presentations and creative pitches.

• Maintained and created company web presence and marketing collateral.
• Worked on several client projects including large flash presentations, websites, email newsletters, brand identity and marketing collateral.
• Managed high priority image project for Starwood Hotels Worldwide.

The CourseNotes iOS app was among the small group of applications available in the Apple App Store when the iPad was first released. As a note-taking app for college students, CourseNotes was extremely popular and was regularly promoted by Apple for many years.