Jono Yuen
Designing experiences with future-forward tech.
Hi,
I’m a design lead who delivers end-to-end products at a high level of craft, and builds the teams that make them.
My background spans game development, interactive installations and enterprise digital products. More recently I’ve extended that into service design, establishing and owning a new service used by an entire student population. The work sits where product craft, service thinking and leadership meet.
Across my career, my projects have won a Red Dot Best of the Best, an iF Design Award and Gold at the Sydney Design Awards for Service Design and User Experience. I’ve hired, mentored and set standards for design teams, and I’m most useful where complex products and services need both a strong design hand and someone to lead the team around it.
Fun facts about me:
🥡 I grew up in a restaurant
😱 I’m terrified of birds
🕴️ I had a bodyguard once
🤷🏻 I was always the last to get
picked up from school
Some brands I’ve collaborated with
Services
Skills
Design Leadership
End-to-End Product Design
Service Design & Journey Mapping
Team Building & Mentoring
Design Practice & Systems
UI/UX Design
Human-Centred AI
Prototyping
Art Direction
Project experience
Digital Products (Mobile & Web)
Conversational & AI-Enabled Products
Digital Service Channels
Embedded & Connected Product Interfaces
Mixed Reality (XR/VR/AR)
Game Design
Interactive Installations
Motion Graphics & Animation
HUDS + GUIS
Founded in 2010, this project serves as a resource for interaction designers. Focused on FUI (Future/Fictional User Interfaces), it houses a curated collection of the most creative and intriguing examples from films, games, concept design, and practical developments.
In 2016, I authored and published the first-ever book on FUI, titled FUI: How to Design User Interfaces for Film and Games. The book was created to help aspiring designers get practical advice on how to start their careers in this field.
It went on to become an Amazon #1 Best New Release and #1 Best Seller.
This platform is now used to highlight the best work in the field, showcase the artists behind it, and support new generations of FUI designers.
Awards
Red Dot Design Award ‘Best of the Best’
Winner
iF Design Award
Winner
Sydney Design Awards
Service Design and User Experience Gold
One Show
Interactive / Mobile
Cannes
Gold Lion Mobile / Bronze Lion Direct
D&AD
White Pencil / Direct Integrated Campaign
Spikes
2 x Gold, 1 x Silver, 2 x Bronze
Webby Official Honoree
Best Use of Video or Moving Image / Apps & Software
Amazon
#1 Best New Release / #1 Best Seller (FUI)
CREATIVE ANNUAL
the year's best Digital and Interactive Work
MTV Engine Room
Asia/Pacific (New York, USA)
AGDA
Excellence in Art Winner
New Images Festival (Paris)
PXN International Prize
IDFA official selection
Digital Storytelling
Red Dot Design Award
Winner
Awwwards x3
FWA x3
ADFEST
Silver Cyber Lotus, Best Art Direction
Walkley Award
Innovation finalist
CSS Design Awards
Website of the Year finalist
MADC
Interactive Craft, Best Digital Design, Best Website
Cut & Paste
People’s Choice Award
Press + Interviews
The Collective Podcast
IDN Magazine
Creative Bloq
Design Week (UK)
Page Magazine (Germany)
Brain Magazine (Japan)
Oculus Blog
Design, User Experience, and Usability: Design Discourse
CGPress
Lovers Magazine
WePresent
Japan Cinema
Desktop Magazine
Semi Permanent Book (Australia / New Zealand)
OK Okay Magazine
Exhibits
Curator for 'Fictional User Interfaces' at Pause Fest (Melbourne/Perth/Rijeka)
Wellcome Museum Exhibition (London, UK)
MTV Screen Time Square, (New York, USA)
Qantas In-flight Exhibition
Rise and Fall Exhibition
AGIDEAS
Lab 3000 Digital Design Biennale
Globe International Summer Launch
Electric Dreams, Loop