Walter Lim is a cross-functional designer with 7+ years of experience based in Auckland, New Zealand.
He currently leads design at Infinity, and sometimes volunteers his
spare time
designing and building things at haxx.nz
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Omnichannel Inventory Systems
Senior Product Designer
Nov 2020 β Sep 2022
β
Cin7.com
Designed systems that make it easier for businesses to sell and track billions of dollars worth of
stock
simultaneously across large retail
chains,
online
marketplaces and generally everywhere.
Juggled responsibilities. Many were not in my job description. We collaboratively set up a design
system across
JSX components with Storybook, and Figma. I then automated
many
DesignOps practices, then looked after and helped ship
countless new projects and initiatives with my team.
Mentored and trained designers and
developers.
Reviewed PRs
with engineering, support, and product team members.
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eCommerce Design Systems
UX Consultant (Contract Role)
Aug 2020 β Nov
2020
β
Demo Microsite
Implemented design and frontend projects that directly led to a 64% YoY increase
in New Zealand eCommerce sales traffic.
Contracted to work on various projects. Designed and developed UX
&
usability
improvements. Bulk of work under NDA.
COVID Vaccination Finder
Designer + UX Engineer
Sep 2021 β Now
β Live website
β Case study
Vaxx.nz is an open source web app that has helped 100,000+ people find COVID vaccinations to
date.
Initially built by a team of 8 developers and 2 designers in 48 hours, then once it blew up in
popularity, became responsible for
Design & Product in an open source team of 80+ contributors. Ended up collaborating with the New Zealand Ministry of Health to ship features faster
and keep the system stable.
Online Store Builder
Co-founder + Designer
Mar 2020 β Feb 2023
β swiftly.nz
β Case study
Swiftly is a simple web app that helps small stores start selling online in minutes. Was responsible
for
UX research, design, and frontend in a team of three. Originally built in 48 hours for a
hackathon.
Swiftly helped
1,200+ small businesses in New Zealand collectively earn over $700,000 NZD while it was operational
from March 2020 to February 2023.
School Volunteering Platform
Lead Designer
Jan 2019 β Aug
2020
β voluntarily.nz
β
GitHub Repository
Voluntarily is an open source web app that connects skilled volunteers with classrooms to teach
science, technology, engineering, entrepreneurship, arts and design in schools.
I was
responsible for UX research, design, and a good chunk of frontend development on the
platform. Trained junior developers and designers who contributed work to the open source project, and
reviewed PRs on production code.
Marketing Automation Platform
Product Designer
Nov 2017 β Jan
2019
β
ubiquity.co.nz
UbiQuity is a marketing automation platform. It programatically sends emails, texts, push
notifications, forms, surveys, chat messages, etc to customers on behalf of companies you interact
with daily.
Designed of new features, Researched platform usability improvements, and sped up prototyping,
testing, and
handoff by improving DesignOps processes.
Sniper Chatbot
Product Designer
Dec 2017 β Jul 2019
Flatbot is a chatbot that helps friends and colleagues spend less time for a place to rent. Performs
auction sniping on desirable rental listings. Developed on the Facebook messenger platform.
Responsible for design.
Peaked at 100+ users on Messenger purely through word of mouth, but ended up neglected as we explored
other pursuits and projects. Discontinued July 2019.
Multiple Teams & Projects
Product Designer
Jan 2017 β Jan
2019
β qrious.co.nz
Qrious helps organisations utilize spatial information to create human-friendly insights into how
people use the space around them. Most of the work we did benefited local government, as well tourism
and transport sector customers.
As their first design hire, I supported multiple internal and external product teams by improving UX
processes, as well as facillitating faster design decisions.
Campervan Rental Platform
Design Intern
Mar 2016 β Jan
2017
β
mighway.com
Mighway is a peer-to-peer motorhome platform that connects motorhome owners with tourists who wanted
to rent their vehicles.
In my role, I negotiated designs between product, development and marketing teams on a
redesign of their onboarding, booking, and internal systems.
Other work, weird projects, side projects, and proof of concept tech demos
Browser extension that helps differentiate between real, and fake verified Twitter users. Featured on The Verge, Engadget, and Gizmodo.
Chrome Web Store
Source Code
The Terrible Ideas hackathon is a 46-hour challenge to create the most terrible, awful, brilliant ideas you can think of.
terriblehack.nz
Discord Server
Proof of concept shopping tech demo that raises the prices of products while you aren't looking. Uses your Webcam and OpenCV.
Live Demo
Source Code
Swear jar that transfers $5 into your savings account every time your device hears you swear. Built to experiment with Google ML services, and banking APIs for the 2019 BankEngine Hackathon.
Video demo
Source code
Mobile VR game where you make PEW PEW noises with your mouth to play. Available on the Play Store. Built to play with the unity microphone API at the KiwiJam 2019 Game Jam.
Download Game
Source Code
40-player educational multiplayer math deathmatch in the browser. Built to learn about Websockets and the Canvas API at the KiwiJam 2020 Game Jam
Source Code
Demo Video