Joe Wheeler
Creative Director, Xbox Design Team
- Role
- Principal Creative Director, Xbox Design at Microsoft
- Location
- Redmond, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Joe Wheeler
I love designing and building digital experiences. I love collaborating and getting stuff done. I love working with brilliant people. I love tough challenges and developing pragmatic solutions. I love seeing people use the things I create and tweaking the experience towards brilliance. I love it when the pressure is on, the whole team is firing, we\'re making good decisions and having fun.I\'m a British & US Citizen, currently living in the Seattle area.
Experience
Principal Creative Director, Xbox Design
Aug 2012 — Present · Redmond, WA, US
Doing my dream job -) I manage a small team of designers and technologists working on fun UX stuff. We spend our day making, playing, learning and then playing some more.I lead the design team for gaming on PC.I led the UX design team for Project xCloud. I led the design of Xbox One Game Streaming for Oculus Rift, Microsoft\'s first VR app.I led the design of the Xbox Design Lab, Microsoft\'s first product customization / build on demand program. I led the Xbox One UI design team (UX). I was responsible for the design foundations of the Xbox One UI, including the overall interaction model, common controls, multitasking and identity.I\'m a named inventor on a bunch of design and utility patents.
Education
University of Hertfordshire
BSc Software Systems for Arts and Media, Multimedia
1996 — 1999
Skills
- Flex
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Information Design
- Interactive Advertising
- Web Design
- Digital Marketing
- Information Architecture
- Persona
- Wire Framing
- User Scenarios
- Usability Engineering
- Localization
- Design Strategy
- Usability
- Object Oriented Design
- Service Design
- User Experience Design
- Interaction Design
- Requirements Management
- Game Design
- Contextual Inquiry
- Mobile Applications
- Build Automation
- User Interface
- User Interface Design
- Typography
- Wireframes
- Rapid Prototyping
- Paper Prototyping
- Agile
- Graphic Design
- Human Computer Interaction
- Experience Design
- Creative Direction
- Actionscript
- User-Centered Design
- Accessibility
- User Experience
- Agile Methodologies
- Usability Testing
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