• Christian San Jose, a UX leader from the Philippines, will be your workshop instructor and facilitator.
• Over the last 13+ years, Christian has lead, co-founded or have been a partner in multiple technology companies that have UX at their core (including First Circle, Make by Ace Saatchi & Saatchi, Jump Digital, Create.ph, and HS3, among others).
• Christian has given 80+ talks and workshops about design since 2007 — including the Facebook Digital Youth Summit (2017 and 2018), Graphika Manila, International Design Conference, and Canva Creatives Conference.
• Christian is the Founder and lead organizer of UX+ Conference, the largest UX Conference in Asia, held last August 2019 with 1,300 attendees for a first-time event.
• Christian is trained and certified in UX Design by CalArts and Glasgow Caledonian University, and is an incoming Master's Degree student at Hyper Island (SG), for the Master of Arts in Digital Management course.• Christian has hired and directly managed over 70+ UX Designers, Web Designers, and Web Developers in his career, with 40+ just in the last 3 years. He has recruited, hired, managed, lead, and have been in the trenches with the best digital practitioners in the country. He's had over 300+ clients in design and digital since 2007. While leading the different teams, Christian built digital experiences for the top companies in the Philippines (in various industries that include telecommunications, travel, leisure, manufacturing, entertainment, and consumer goods).
• Christian has designed the official logos and websites for the biggest personalities in the world, including Kobe Bryant, Usher, Usain Bolt, James Harden, Albert Pujols, and Dwyane Wade. He's been previously commissioned by Adobe for their global launch, and his design can be found within every commercially released copy of Adobe Illustrator CS5. He has previously won design awards, including the top prize in the Design By Humans $10,000 competition. His designs have been featured in interviews and articles in Entrepreneur Magazine, MTV, the Adobe Blog, Abduzeedo, Envato, CNN, CBS, ANC, and Nickelodeon.