Tom is a masterful UX Designer with 19 years of industry experience developing commercially successful corporate branding campaigns and building intuitive and accessibly compliant Design Systems. An inventive company problem solver, with excellent communication skills, who excels as both an individual producer and team leader.
KUDOS FOR THOMAS THORSLUND:
“Tom is great converting the ambiguous & complex to incredible visual solutions while ensuring consistency between platforms. He is a great collaborator -- always open to feedback, iterates quickly, keeps the mood light and delivers on time… He makes a real impact and raises the quality of work around him.”
“Tom can create an icon for almost anything. It's like magic! His approach is simplistic yet very effective. His unique style and aesthetics worked successfully for the complete products’ rebranding.”
“Tom has successfully established himself as the go to guy for any visual design challenge. Even with remote working environment, it’s been a great experience collaborating with him.”
“The high volume of our deliverables would have overwhelmed many people, but Tom is a great collaborator, he iterates quickly, keeps his great sense of humor under stress, and is diligent about his work – all of which aided our success.
“Tom's design skills are phenomenal, he is a natural talent - a gifted illustrator, [with] a great eye for color and design and no one could hold a candle to his icon mastery!”
“Tom's design talent combined with his resourcefulness, experience, and sense of teamwork made him a pleasure to work with.”
Source: www.linkedin.com/in/thomasthorslund/
CORE SKILLS
• User Experience Design
• User Experience Design
• Visual Design
• Design Systems
• Documentation
• Logo Design
• Illustration
• Interactive Prototypes
• Iconography
• Auditing & Testing
OTHER COMPETENCIES
• Figma
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• Affinity Photo/Designer
• Adobe Creative Suite
WORK HISTORY
Charles Schwab - Senior UX Manager - Everest Design System (Remote) – August 2024 – Current
Promoted to Senior Manager of UX Design in August 2024
Lead UX designer on Everest Figma UI library (Web, iOS and Android), Internal documentation site and Iconography
Charles Schwab - Senior UX Designer - Everest Design System (Remote) July 2022 – August 2024
Spearheaded converting Schwab’s existing Sketch UI library into Figma
Collaborated with developers and project leads to research, design, implement and test multiple new components
Lead accessibility audits of the design system to identify areas for improvement, including redesigning the color palette to align contrast values across hues and redefining interactive patterns to be consistently applied across the system
Created, managed and maintained documentation on the design systems style guide website to ensure components are implemented correctly across design teams
Ivanti - Lead UX Visual Designer - Clarity Design System (Remote) Jan 2018 – April 2022
Championed the effort to redesign the entire design system from the ground up to have a refreshed, simple, modern and unified look and feel including:
Defined the Visual Design direction for the new Ivanti Design System (IDS) “Spark.”
Fully redesigned and rigorously tested the primary and secondary color palettes, along with all common UI components to not only meet WCAG Accessibility compliance (a first for Ivanti), but also to find the most visually pleasing solutions within the limited spectrum of colors.
MobileIron Inc. - Lead Visual Designer – UX Team (Mountain View, California) – Feb 2018 – Dec 2020
Led a full design re-branding initiative for the entire product suite to update all product icons in a sleek, modern and consistent family of easily recognizable logos.
Collaborated with the UX team to design several mobile features and apps from the ground up including AppStation, Zero Sign On (ZSO), Mobile Threat Defense (MTD), Docs@Work and FilePass.
VMware Inc. - UX Visual Designer - Visual Design Team (Palo Alto, California) April 2011 – Oct 2017
Collaborated with the UX Visual Design team in the complete rebrand of VMware’s suite of products from the initial concepts, sketches and mock-ups, through to delivering the final assets, with fully documented design specifications. Developed an updated, fresh look, upholding the visual identity of VMware’s brand.
Citrix (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida / Santa Clara, California) Sept 2007 – Jan 2011
Visual Designer, User Experience Team
Created designs for Citrix Receiver, the first and most popular virtualization app for iPhone and iPad, which was presented at the 2010 Synergy conference and resulted in the application achieving 2 million downloads in the first two weeks. As a member of a small, handpicked team working directly with our CEO, I had access to a guarded iPad prototype throughout the project.
Vinylot Signs & Graphics - Graphic Designer (Margate, Florida) 2005 – 2007
· Responsible for countless logo designs, printed materials, signs, corporate branding, trade show booths, vehicle wraps, sign and vinyl installations, web design and iconography
EDUCATION
Graphic and Desktop Design Diploma
The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Florida 2006
Design Honors Program
3.6 GPA
Nominated for Best Portfolio
Won Bronze Medal for Best Portfolio in Graphic Design