James Halim

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About

Hello, I’m James.

I'm an experienced Product Designer

who crafts clear, intuitive, user-centric design

who crafts clear, intuitive, user-centric design experiences that connect businesses with their audiences

experiences that connect businesses with their audiences

Based in Vancouver.
Worked with teams in Japan, UK, and New York.
Designed products and services for 1+ million users.

Sales Lead CRM Tool

Building a refined, actionable CRM for Canada’s largest community builder.

I'm constantly improving my craft by
learning new tools, plugins, prototyping,
and optimizing design systems in various projects

I'm constantly improving my craft by

learning new tools, plugins, prototyping, and optimizing design systems in various projects

Elden Rings

Reducing information overload so players can enjoy the game and start winning.

Holoearth

Creating the Holoearth mobile UI experience, designing the gameplay, crafting, menu, and shop UI components, as well as the graphic designs.

Scrapbook

Empowering parents and their children for safe and healthy mental wellbeing, through meaningful journal entries.

Stories

A music app player with a story feature, showcasing the artist's inspirations, thought-process and personal stories.

A little bit about me

Hi, my name is James!

I'm a Vancouver-based senior Product Designer with 5+ years of industry experience. I'm an expert in translating complex systems into clear, actionable, and visually refined digital experiences that balance business objectives with user needs.

As a designer, I embrace ambiguity, stay aligned in the client's / organization's mission statements, and advocate for both user and business needs. Products can be technical, where I shine is bringing a refined digital experience that focuses on visual engagement, pragmatical implementation, and industry standard user experience design in all aspects. As well as, a strong and trusted team member alongside PMs, engineers, marketing, and fellow designers.

In my free time, I enjoy creating videos (I'm in my tiktok era), cooking various dishes, and bothering my cat. Whenever I can, I would also attend various local design events. I am lucky to have met many amazing designers in Vancouver and Tokyo.

Learn more

Working on large (or small) projects requires a positive team collaborative effort, here's what my awesome coworkers and clients have shared about me :)

We hired James as one of our product designers based outside of Japan. He was able to adapt, and produce high-quality designs and work exceptionally well with our team in Japan. James understood the needs of clients and user base, especially localization and Japanese UX design principles. He has been a strong core of our team and we wish him the best with his future endeavours.
Shota Imanami
Neoardent
Lead Marketing Manager
James was a delight to work with. His work was some of the best I had seen. His initiative and enthusiasm made him a great team mate who always put their best foot forward and helped out wherever he was needed.
James ability to adapt to change and still maintain a positive attitude is inspiring. Needless to say I throughly enjoyed my time working with James.
Any team would be lucky to have him!
Meenu Puri
Appnovation
District Operations Manager
James has a natural gift for visual design, producing elegant brands, and web/moble interfaces that perform well. Importantly, he considers the audience, message and challenges of a project before diving in, which is a rare skill in this field.
James is an awesome dude and he's a quick learner and has tackled some challenging projects with his approach of fully immersing himself in them. Working with alongside him has been awesome!
Evian Davies
Critical Mass
Senior Product Designer
James brings a thoughtful, systems-level approach to IoT design that bridges complex technology with practical application to real user needs. He asks the right questions early to clarify ambiguity into clear, actionable direction.
An outstanding characteristic about James is his responsiveness.
James will fit right in as a member of a team looking to create an effective customer experience.
Chris DeTurk
Heretto
Project Management Director

We hired James as one of our product designers based outside of Japan. He was able to adapt, and produce high-quality designs and work exceptionally well with our team in Japan. James understood the needs of clients and user base, especially localization and Japanese UX design principles. He has been a strong core of our team and we wish him the best with his future endeavours.
Shota Imanami
Neoardent
Lead Marketing Manager
James was a delight to work with. His work was some of the best I had seen. His initiative and enthusiasm made him a great team mate who always put their best foot forward and helped out wherever he was needed.
James ability to adapt to change and still maintain a positive attitude is inspiring. Needless to say I throughly enjoyed my time working with James.
Any team would be lucky to have him!
Meenu Puri
Appnovation
District Operations Manager
James has a natural gift for visual design, producing elegant brands, and web/moble interfaces that perform well. Importantly, he considers the audience, message and challenges of a project before diving in, which is a rare skill in this field.
James is an awesome dude and he's a quick learner and has tackled some challenging projects with his approach of fully immersing himself in them. Working with alongside him has been awesome!
Evian Davies
Critical Mass
Senior Product Designer
James brings a thoughtful, systems-level approach to IoT design that bridges complex technology with practical application to real user needs. He asks the right questions early to clarify ambiguity into clear, actionable direction.
An outstanding characteristic about James is his responsiveness.
James will fit right in as a member of a team looking to create an effective customer experience.
Chris DeTurk
Heretto
Project Management Director

I'm always open for a chat :)
Let's connect and collaborate!

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Currently

Immersing myself in AI tools (Gemini, Cursor, Loveable, v0)

Learning to cook various dishes, still trying to perfect the ultimate pasta

Watching a few Jdrama and other series (Currently watching Fallout!)

Blog

Currently

Immersing myself in AI tools (Gemini, Cursor, Loveable, v0)

Learning to cook various dishes, still trying to perfect the ultimate pasta

Watching a few Jdrama and other series (Currently watching Fallout!)

Blog

Currently

Immersing myself in AI tools (Gemini, Cursor, Loveable, v0)

Learning to cook various dishes, still trying to perfect the ultimate pasta

Watching a few Jdrama and other series (Currently watching Fallout!)

Blog

Hello, I’m James.

I'm an experienced Product Designer

who crafts clear, intuitive, user-centric design

who crafts clear, intuitive, user-centric design experiences that connect businesses with their audiences

experiences that connect businesses with their audiences

I'm constantly improving my craft bylearning new tools, plugins, prototyping, and optimizing design systems in various projects

I'm constantly improving my craft by

learning new tools, plugins, prototyping, and optimizing design systems in various projects

Hi, my name is James!

Working on large (or small) projects requires a positive team collaborative effort, here's what my awesome coworkers and clients have shared about me :)

I'm always open for a chat :)Let's connect and collaborate!

Email

LinkedIn

I'm constantly improving my craft by
learning new tools, plugins, prototyping,
and optimizing design systems in various projects

I'm always open for a chat :)
Let's connect and collaborate!