Resume

experience

HEAD OF DESIGN

Team DC
May 2025 – Now
www.teamdc.com.au

Leading the design function at Team DC, a digital consultancy delivering strategy, design, and technology solutions for clients across Australia. Responsible for setting the design and research direction on client engagements, from discovery through to delivery. Managing and mentoring the design team while contributing hands-on to user research, product design, and client pitches. Overseeing resource planning, project costing, and acting as design venture lead to drive client engagement and grow the practice.

  • Design & research strategy for client projects
  • Design team management
  • Support on project pitches
  • Resource planning and costing
  • Design venture lead for client engagement
  • User research and product design

independent product design consultant

JakobKahn.com
May 2019 – Now

Contracting for various clients to deliver user experience design, prototypes, user research and production management directly with development teams. Key projects include:

  • Accziom – Deal Flow SaaS for accountants: UX/UI design and production management
  • Trendsafe – Occupational health and safety SaaS: UX/UI, brand design and production
  • Solform – Prototyping for running analysis app, UX/UI
  • Plain English Foundation – Brand refresh and GEL (Global Experience Language)
  • The Australian Style Guide – Logo and UX/UI design
  • Postlock – FinTech Startup: Product strategy, prototyping, user research and pitch decs
  • Searchr – Online TV Streaming Guide: UX/UI design, prototyping

UX Design Lead

CommSec Adviser Services
Dec 2016 – May 2019

As Lead UX Designer reporting to the Executive Manager of Customer Experience & Marketing, I manage routine UX tasks and have launched several self-directed initiatives and projects with full autonomy to advance product UX. These initiatives include identifying opportunities, scoping solutions and driving execution to deliver measurable improvements in a complex digital platform.

Major projects:

  • The Gateway Project - integrating CFS services into the CAS platform
  • eSubmit
  • Action Centre
  • Mobile app
  • Platform redesign
  • Form redesign

Ongoing responsibilities:

  • Analyse verbatim feedback from the call centre for UX-related issues
  • Backlog prioritisation and actioning tasks with scrum teams
  • UX system updates and improvements
  • Reporting progress on initiatives, research results and recommendations to the Executive Manager and Leadership Board
  • Provide UX and CX related support and advice to various departments.

Principal & Design

Kinetik Internet Systems
Feb 2004 – Nov 2016

Kinetik, a boutique agency I founded and led, specialised in website and web design. It evolved into sophisticated database applications and subsequently advanced into modern UX practices. The agency consists of a core team of five full-time staff (two backend programmers, one frontend developer, one content manager and myself) while partnering with graphic designers and SEO specialists for comprehensive delivery.

Major clients and projects

  • King Furniture – long standing client for web design and content publishing. Developed their first bespoke e-commerce platform
  • Astra Zenaca – bespoke intranet system
  • Metcash – bespoke intranet system, wireframing/UX design for their national database project.
  • IGA – web design
  • CS Energy – bespoke website and CMS system
  • Roslyn Oxley Gallery – bespoke gallery management platform
  • Seqwater – Intranet design

Web designer

Worldsites
Aug 2001 – Feb 2004

Delivered web design for SME projects using Photoshop for asset creation, Illustrator for vector graphics, Flash for interactive animations, and Dreamweaver for efficient HTML/CSS hand-coding—crafting functional, visually engaging sites within tight budgets and early web constraints.

Web designer

ID Media
Jun 1999 – Aug 2001

After six months of self-directed study in Photoshop and HTML to build an initial portfolio, I secured a position at ID Media—rapidly advancing to deliver website designs for major clients including 2UE Radio and Wayne Gardner.

education

University of Queensland

Bachelor of Business
Major: Property Valuation & Administration

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