dustin davis
Conceptual Creative Director
UT, USAI'm a Creative Director that's worked in interactive professionally since 2000. I care about UX, design, thinking and solving client problems - elegantly.
I started out as a Director kiosk designer and developer, moved to ActionScript then to the agency side, working in new business and then on different agency accounts as Lead Design and upward in Detroit. I really want to try to do status quo things in a new way, and do new things that haven't been done before. I'm currently a Creative Director at Struck in Salt Lake City.
I started out as a Director kiosk designer and developer, moved to ActionScript then to the agency side, working in new business and then on different agency accounts as Lead Design and upward in Detroit. I really want to try to do status quo things in a new way, and do new things that haven't been done before. I'm currently a Creative Director at Struck in Salt Lake City.
Work Experience
Freelance
Conceptual Creative Director
Concepting. Brand Strategy. Rapid, weird creative strategy and execution. Acronym-laden interaction design and UX.
Kid-focused AI worldbuilding for Microsoft. Service Design and Customer Experience strategy for Sony/Funimation. Social content for Acura, Belgian chocolatiers, toothbrushes, and other CPG brands.
Travel and tourism advertising for Niagara’s Wine Country. Tackling news bias. Consulting, UX/UI work for IoT apps. My own comic. A skoch of Nike work. eCommerce design and implementation for an art gallery, character design...and a Mountain America branch campaign for cats...so far.
Kid-focused AI worldbuilding for Microsoft. Service Design and Customer Experience strategy for Sony/Funimation. Social content for Acura, Belgian chocolatiers, toothbrushes, and other CPG brands.
Travel and tourism advertising for Niagara’s Wine Country. Tackling news bias. Consulting, UX/UI work for IoT apps. My own comic. A skoch of Nike work. eCommerce design and implementation for an art gallery, character design...and a Mountain America branch campaign for cats...so far.
September 2016
- Present
Oregon, United States
Go
Creative Director
Started: Employee 1 (as 1 of 3 people in a coffee shop) of the world's first social life platform. Built with the idea of ending social media isolation and bringing people together again in the real world for better days.
Ended: 30+ employees, 7+million dollars in seed funding (including the largest ever investment led by CavAngels), the number 2 social app in New Zealand (not to mention going from 0-20k users in 6 weeks), currently climbing in Australia, 4.3 rated in the app store, over-performing marketing and brand — and well positioned to continue that success as they launch in more countries.
In the middle? Brand building, team building, UX/UI, future product definition and strategy, marketing.
Ended: 30+ employees, 7+million dollars in seed funding (including the largest ever investment led by CavAngels), the number 2 social app in New Zealand (not to mention going from 0-20k users in 6 weeks), currently climbing in Australia, 4.3 rated in the app store, over-performing marketing and brand — and well positioned to continue that success as they launch in more countries.
In the middle? Brand building, team building, UX/UI, future product definition and strategy, marketing.
June 2019
- June 2021
Oregon, United States
Struck
Creative Director
Interactive focused - work on projects, new business pitches and some AOR work for wildly different clients.
September 2011
- September 2016
Utah, United States
Organic
Creative Director
Creative Director for Demand Generation across the Hilton Worldwide portfolio. Also worked on new business pitches.
March 2010
- September 2011
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States
Campbell-Ewald
Associate Digital Design Director
Various positions, various accounts. Rapid interactive ideation and prototyping for Chevy, Navy and New Business. Alltel design lead, Chevy digital design Lead, etc, etc
February 2005
- March 2010
Michigan, United States
Freelance
Principal
Freelance! Sure, it's part-time now, but after the .com bubble burst and reached Detroit, I split out and did this full time for several years, until starting at Campbell-Ewald. This worked out well, as I was able to work on a bunch of educational clients, Yahoo!, and pretty much all the automotive ad agencies.
May 2002
- March 2010
Michigan, United States
VuCom New Media
Multimedia Developer
Automotive and trade show kiosk design and development. (Ironically, working in touch screen, before a practice existed). Later the company would morph into predominantly eLearning through custom ActionScript work.
September 2000
- May 2003
Troy, Michigan, United States
Aquent
Interactive Contractor
Basically - I did this instead of an internship. My first job at 15 was working in the frame department at Michael's - at which I decided I hated cutting mattes.
May 2000
- September 2000
Michigan, United States
Skills
Art Direction,
Creative Direction,
Design,
HTML/CSS,
Illustrator,
Photoshop,
Pitch,
Sketch,
UX/Wireframing,