Kim Carson Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

BrighteyeLabs is my "base of operation." From here I help a variety of clients with short and long term projects. The positions below represent my current roster plus a selection of notable gigs over the years.

Los Angeles, California, Us

The founders of Lightcraft and Warner Research (the inventor of Oscar-winning Avid Media Composer®) contacted me for help with a new goal – turn any location into a digital movie set. Their idea was to bring live action and CGI effects together in real time, while filming using an iPhone or iPad. The team commissioned me to transform the UI and user experience of their prototype Jetset app into a “Minimum Awesome Product” that is now available on the App Store and wowing early adopters. Recently it earned an Award of Excellence at the NAB Show 2024 (National Association of Broadcasters).

Renton, Wa., Us

Meteorcomm provides equipment and software powering traffic communications, messaging and signaling among the nation's railroads. I was brought in to revamp the UI and visual design of the company's suite of software applications. Working with the company's engineering groups and new UI development team, I've helped establish modern approaches to UI product and visual design, as well as delivered a design system that is now in widespread use to standardize UI design throughout the organization.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Rendered.ai commissioned me to design the user experience and UI for their first product offering – a web-based platform for generating synthetic visual data for AI training. Using a Blender-like creation canvas paired with a compute job processor and file management system, people can create and fine-tune synthetic AI training sets for everything from healthcare to security to insurance and more. We worked on an MVP for about a year, then launched the commercial application near the end of 2021. Since then I've continued designing new features and evolving the UI as Rendered's platform has become a leader in the synthetic data space.

El Segundo, California, Us

The founders at Sift (former lead engineers at SpaceX) asked me to design UI for their go-to-market MVP software, which as their website states, provides the first observability stack for hardware sensor data. Over 18 months I worked in closely with the founders and engineering team, designing tools for telemetry data visualization, management and reporting for a wide variety of applications in advanced robotics, aerospace and more. The prototypes we created drove excitement with investors and provided valuable UX exploration with early adopters. I also developed a solid foundation design system that frontend devs could run with for buildout.

Zug, Canton, Ch

Santiment is an Ethereum-based startup that helps cryptocurrency traders make better investing decisions. Their web and mobile apps track exactly what’s happening in crypto markets, with real-time data feeds and tools for behavior analysis. I designed the company's early websites and applications, resulting in two successful ICO fundraising rounds in 2017 and expansion of the platform over the next several years. I also designed the UI for an integration of Santiment data with Bitfinex (one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world) and consulted on UX and design for Santiment's crypto price prediction apps.

Us

Securus Technologies provides communications services to more than 2,000 correctional facilities across the U.S. I worked with an R&D team to create a secure, facility-grade tablet that gives inmates controlled access to education, post-release job opportunities, constructive entertainment, and personal communications that are proving to reduce violent incidents and improve well-being.We also invented an officer tablet that facility staff can use to receive and process inmate tablets, monitor use, and manage available services.I drove the UX and UI design from the start of the project through its first 3 years, addressing widely different user needs from the inmates and their loved ones, to officers, to equipment suppliers, to Securus support staff.

San Jose, California, Us

Azuga is a next-generation telematics company that provides GPS solutions - and much more - for commercial car and truck fleets. Their parent company, Danlaw, manufactures a plugin device that collects detailed information about vehicles’ locations, activity, fuel consumption, and environmental impact. Azuga's companion web-based software reports data back in a variety of interactive reports and live views, so fleet managers can target ways to save on gas, operational costs, and carbon emissions. They also recently introduced a driver rewards program, a first in the industry.I've helped them from their launch in 2012, designing the logo, packaging, marketing materials, and their flagship web UI. Other projects included web app upgrades, a new corporate web site, and booths for tradeshows in 2015-2018.

Viewpath provides a sophisticated project management application for desktop and mobile. They commissioned me to help migrate a legacy user interface from early desktop software-inspired design to a modern Material-based SAAS approach. I worked on designs for views across devices, from high-level interactions and page layouts, to icons and other visual details.

magicJack is a leading cloud communications company and a pioneer in VOIP technology. After they completed a brand refresher in 2014, they brought me on to carry the new brand through web site pages, digital ads, product graphics, landing pages and HTML email campaigns.I also designed screens and graphics for their mobile and desktop apps, set up a new HTML newsletter template system in MailChimp, and produced images for social media. One of our most successful projects involved redesigning the e-commerce shopping cart system in 2016, which resulted in more than 50% increase in online sales.

Seattle, Washington, Us

LabKey Software, associated with Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, develops open source web applications that scientists use to organize, analyze, and share biomedical research data.The core product, LabKey Server, includes project frameworks and tools for searching, analysis, collaboration, data visualization, and more. Scientists can use it out of the box, and/or customize it with modules they develop themselves.I started working with LabKey in their early days, on their first corporate web site around 2005. Later, they brought me in to work on the core LabKey Server UI, doing css styling upgrades, navigation design, icons and graphics, UI controls, and UI/UX design for new features. The product evolved from a system “designed by developers” (their words) into a serious offering that won attention from larger clients, had visual appeal, and was easier to learn and use.LabKey clients also became interested in design for their custom installations, so I worked on UI for the Statistical Center for HIC/AIDS Research & Prevention (SCHARP), the Immune Tolerance Network (which won a Bio-IT World award for their LabKey install), the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), and the Human Immunology Project Consortium (HIPC).

Kirkland, Washington, Us

The word of the day was “convergence.” Mobile devices and internet TV were shaking up traditional broadcasting. News outlets were trying to figure out how to reach audiences who were watching video on their phones, and choosing their news sources according to more and more diverse preferences. 1CAST had a vision to aggregate news through partnerships with media companies around the world, giving people a way to create their own news “casts” based on the content they wanted, delivered to any device they wished.I worked with a small team designing the 1CAST corporate website plus UI/UX for web and mobile applications, embedded widgets, and a Windows desktop client. I created graphics and icons, and developed several versions of the desktop, mobile, and embedded apps skinned for media partners and advertisers. We were lucky enough to be named a favorite iPhone app by the New York Times.

Bellevue, Wa, Us