Himgan Wibisono

I am a design executive with over two decades of experience and deep knowledge of design strategy, user experience, user interface, brand & marketing design, and design team development. Currently VP Product and Design at Candex, a fintech solution enabling enterprises to engage, track and pay their partners for any goods and services.

Prior to Candex, I was a founding team member at Jiff, a health care benefit platform, where I led the design functions and operations, built an agile design team, and grew a lasting design culture that was deeply integrated into the entire organization.

Work Samples

Resume

Experience

Candex

VP of Product · San Francisco, CA ·  2019 - Present

Helping enterprises to engage, track, and pay their trade partners.

NFX

Designer in Residence · San Francisco, CA ·  2018 - 2019

Working with the NFX product development team to apply various Network Effect principles in product design.

Castlight Health (via acquisition of Jiff, Inc.)

VP of Design · San Francisco, CA ·  2017 - 2018

Through acquisition of Jiff by Castlight Health in March of 2017, I joined the leadership team to head its design team and functions. The immediate efforts were focused on envisioning the combine company’s product vision, rebranding Castlight’s identity and establishing design culture within the new organization.

Jiff, Inc.

VP of Design · Mountain View & Oakland, CA · 2010 - 2017

As a founding member, I set design principles for our products and brand, built and grew the design team and functions, and was part of the executive team that drove the direction of the company’s business which led to acquisition by Castlight Health. During our exploration phases, one of the apps we produced was selected as one of the finalists for 2011 TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield, a finalist at 2012 SXSW Accelerator and the winner of 2011 DC to VC HIT Startup Showcase.

Ooga Labs

Designer in Residence · San Francisco, CA · 2010 - 2011

Provided strategic and hands-on design support for the various portfolio companies Ooga Labs collaborated with. Applying agile design thinking in a fast pace and iterative startup environment.

MyWire

Director of Design · Redwood City, CA · 2008 - 2010

As an integral part of the product management team that works closely with the CEO and the engineering team, I directed and managed MyWire's design efforts in order to translate business objectives and technical requirements into compelling design solutions. With the goal of connecting users to high-quality digital content from various publishers around the world, MyWire's design approach focused on creating an online marketplace for its partners' content and makes it easy to be discovered.

Samsung Electronics Inc. - Samsung Design America

UI Design Manager · San Francisco, CA · 2007 - 2008

I managed and led a UI design team for one of Samsung's six global design offices. My objective was to establish an experience-centric design practice that would assist Samsung in expanding its capabilities from traditional consumer electronics manufacturer to become the leading producer of integrated consumer electronic solutions. Products: Samsung LifeDiary, B2B Printer Experience, InfoLink.

Adobe Systems Inc. (via acquisition of Macromedia Inc.) - XD Group

SR UX Designer · San Francisco, CA · 2004 - 2007

As a member of the Experience Design group, my work's objective was to identify, design/architect and apply UI patterns in order to advance Macromedia's brand through the experience users have with its products and the experience those products help them create. Products/projects: Flex 2.0, Breeze 5.0 and 601 Townsend's AV Control Panels.

Sony Electronics Inc. - Sony Design Center

Interaction/User-Centered Designer · San Francisco, CA · 2001 - 2004

As lead user-researcher within the interaction design team, my responsibilities in various projects include: designing and conducting research initiatives, transforming research findings and product requirements into appropriate interaction models, and leading and managing projects. Completed projects cover areas of: wireless communication, media-entertainment management, home-server services, peer-to-peer solutions and others. Products/projects: Sony Connect Music Store, Sony Cable-Card HD DVR (DHG-HDD)

MetaDesign

Interaction/User-Centered Designer · San Francisco, CA · 2000 - 2001

A member of an interdisciplinary team whose main responsibility is to integrate user-centered design practices within the framework of interaction design and information architecture. Clients: Netflix, Hewitt Associates, Barclay Bank, Ocean Conservancy and others.

Education

Institute of Design - Illinois Institute of Technology

Chicago, IL. 1999

Master of Design: Human-Centered Communication Design track. IBM Fellow.

College of Architecture - Illinois Institute of Technology

Chicago, IL. 1997

Bachelor of Architecture, High Honors Graduate

Knowledge + Skills

Design Management, Product Management, UI Design, Ethnographic Research, Information Architecture, Design Planning, Rapid Paper Prototyping, Electronic Prototyping (Flash, HTML)

Patent

Digital Video Recorder Interface

20060080716 Method and apparatus for navigating video content

20050216935 Filter criteria and results display apparatus and method

20050213928 Method and apparatus for managing video storage

20050108756 Interactive program guide with preferred items list apparatus and method

20050108755 Multi-source programming guide apparatus and method

20050108752 3-Dimensional browsing and selection apparatus and method

20050108750 Candidate data selection and display apparatus and method

20050108749 Automatic content display apparatus and method

20050108748 Display filter criteria and results display apparatus and method

Peer to Peer Solutions

20040002920 Managing and sharing identities on a network

20030233399 Initializing relationships between devices in a network

20030191720 Electronic tracking tag