Walter Lim is a Designer & UX Engineer

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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Featured Work

Cin7 Demo

Cin7

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.

UX Research
Product Design
Design Systems
Frontend Development
DesignOps
Design Management

Here's what Cin7 staff say...


Technical Competence

"I worked with Walt on several projects to improve the usability of our system. His pragmatic approach and outstanding technical knowledge helped us deliver incredible results."

Cultural Impact

"His can-do attitude is incredibly contagious, and this has been a great motivator that helped the engineering team achieve feats that some thought were impossible."

"There is no doubt that Walt can make a difference."

Leadership Style

"Walt leads by example and it is always a pleasure to work with him. If I think of creativity and technology combined, Walt is the first thing that comes to mind."

"His invaluable contributions to the company are something that you can’t unnotice."
Samsung Demo

Samsung Electronics NZ

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.

Product Design
Design Systems
Frontend Development
Amazon Alexa
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vaxx Demo

Vaxx.NZ

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.

UX Research
Product Design
Design Systems
Frontend Development
Product Management
The Swiftly website in use

Swiftly

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.

eCommerce
UX Research
Product Design
Frontend Development
The Voluntarily website on Desktop, Mobile, and Tablet

Voluntarily

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.

UX Research
Product Design
Frontend Development
Open Source Software
a snapshot of my work around ubiquity marketing software

Ubiquity

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.

Marketing Automation
UX Research
Product Design
Frontend Development
Data Visualization
DesignOps
Three screenshots of flatbot in use

Flatbot

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.

Chatbots
Facebook APIs
UX Research
Product Design
Data visualization work

Qrious

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.

UX Research
Product Design
Data Visualization
Reporting
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the mighway landing page

Mighway

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.

UX Research
Product Design
Peer-to-Peer Rental Platforms
Campervans
Tourism

Experiments

Other work, weird projects, side projects, and proof of concept tech demos

COVID contact tracing website

Eight Dollars

Browser extension that helps differentiate between real, and fake verified Twitter users. Featured on The Verge, Engadget, and Gizmodo.


Logo of the Terrible Ideas hackathon

Terrible Hack

The Terrible Ideas hackathon is a 46-hour challenge to create the most terrible, awful, brilliant ideas you can think of.


COVID contact tracing website

Fruit Tax

Proof of concept shopping tech demo that raises the prices of products while you aren't looking. Uses your Webcam and OpenCV.


a swearing robot monkey that takes away $5 of your money every time you swear

Swearsies

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.


online VR game with evil grumpy space cats

Pew Pew VR

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.


online multiplayer game

Quick Maths

40-player educational multiplayer math deathmatch in the browser. Built to learn about Websockets and the Canvas API at the KiwiJam 2020 Game Jam