Brian Howe

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About Brian Howe

Hello, I meticulously craft digital experiences that audiences love. I am an award-winning expert in digital interface and graphic design, an accomplished visionary who excels at synthesizing large-scale user, business, and brand needs. I am a natural leader, inspiring to work with, and an empowering bridge between Tech, Product, and Design teams. I’m also a passionate, hard-working, nice person. For a more intriguing visual walkthrough of my work, please visit my site at Prior to my current lead design role at Sportsnet, I achieved some significant milestones at Business Insider: → Spearheaded the visual brand transition and design strategy from Business Insider to Insider. → Played a pivotal role in cultivating an open, receptive, ambitious, and effective company culture—now a hallmark of the organization and a key attraction for our hiring efforts. → Successfully oversaw all qualitative user testing efforts from 2019 onwards. This transformed the way our teams understood our users, informed product development, and enabled our organization to design more valuable and contextual experiences for our audience. → Led the collaborative redesign of Business Insider's CMS platform to enhance collaboration, usefulness, intuitiveness, speed, efficiency, and overall effectiveness for our extensive editorial staff of 700+ writers. → Designed Business Insider's subscription funnel tool from the ground up. → During my tenure, I created, owned, maintained, and evolved all of Business Insider's design systems and visual brand identities for their worldwide digital products. → Directed, in collaboration with Metalab in 2020, the redesign and launch of the new Business Insider app. Awards and achievements at Business Insider: → 2019 Best Overall Design for the Business Insider > Insider site redesign → 2017 Best on Instagram (Digital Publisher for Business Insider) → 2016 Nominated Best Publishing Site Design for Tech Insider Past projects worth mentioning. The Rogers Sportsnet app: → Won the Digi Award for the "Best Mobile Utility"(2015) theScore mobile app got a lot of attention upon its release (2012): → One of Apple's "Amazing Apps for iPhone". → Featured as an App Store Essentials Sports App for iPhone & iPad. → Member of the App Store Essentials Hall of Fame. → One of Time Magazine's Must-Have iPad apps. When not at work, I’m playing basketball, attending concerts, at the cinema, learning from youtube, trying to find a great restaurant, playing video games, creating on Instagram, or collecting movie and TV memorabilia.