David Balogh Résumé

Overview

Lead Product Designer for Townsquare Interactive and Ignite working with a small team of engineers, designers, product managers, and QA. Our work includes anything used to serve our customers and manage their accounts. This includes our proprietary CMS, CRM, client tools, themes, and web modules.

Many projects go from mocks and specs/prototypes in Figma to full web-ready prototypes built using proprietary frameworks, customized Bootstrap builds, or Tailwind. These are then handed off to our engineers for build using several current technologies. Styleguides, design systems, frameworks, and information architecture are maintained for consistency across tools.

In addition to product work, I also work with our team to manage our marketing sites and case study builds.

DESIGN

Over 20 years of experience working in Adobe products, wireframe apps, and several other tools needed to create detailed mocks. Primary tools include Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, Visual Studio Code. Solid understanding of hierarchy, typography, and layout.

code

Solid knowledge and implementation of frameworks, SASS/LESS builds, as well as JS. Ability to work in React and Angular projects, primarily to update as seen fit, or reverse engineer to add new features. Experienced with running local dev environments thru Docker and Git.

Experience

Creative Director / Product Design

Townsquare Media

Apr 2011 - Present

Lead Product Designer for Townsquare Interactive and Ignite working with a small team of engineers, designers, product managers, and QA. Our work includes anything used to serve our customers and manage their accounts. This includes our proprietary CMS, CRM, client tools, themes, and web modules. Many projects go from mocks and specs to full web-ready prototypes built using proprietary frameworks or customized Bootstrap builds, which are handed off to our engineers for build using several current technologies. Styleguides, frameworks, and information architecture are maintained for consistency across tools. Dave Balogh - page 1 In addition to product work, I also work with our team to manage our marketing sites and case study builds.

Principal Designer

AOL

Feb 2005 - Apr 2011

TIMELINE (MOST RECENT FIRST)

COMMUNITY PLATFORM PRODUCT DESIGN 

  • Comments 

  • Profiles 

  • Sharing 

  • Forums

KEY EXPERIENCES

  • iPhone Skins: Design 

  • Engadget iPad App: Design 

  • AOL.COM: Concepts 

  • KitchenDaily iPad App: Design 

  • Entity Pages, Celebrity One-Stops: Design 

  • AOL Video Google TV App: Design 

  • Global Community Platform: Design

PROMOTED TO PRINCIPAL DESIGNER

  • KitchenDaily: Design, CSS/HTML, Prototyping 

  • AOL Food's Grocery List: Design and CSS 

  • User Submitted Photos: CSS/Front-end Consultation 

  • Consultant for other designers on CSS/dev/design related issues

PROMOTED TO SENIOR DESIGNER

  • AOL Home channel: Design and CSS 

  • Several features for AOL Body: Design and CSS 

  • ParentDish logo and site: Design 

  • Stylelist logo: Design 

  • Transitioned to AOL Food

PROMOTED TO DESIGNER, AOL BODY

  • AOL Body channel: Design 

  • America Takes it Off features 

  • Took on CSS development as a new skill that I rapidly became skilled at

ASSOCIATE DESIGNER, AOL ENTERTAINMENT

  • Dynamic Lede Promos 

  • Headers 

  • Specials 

  • Live 8 Experience's Hub, Video Experience page, and On-Demand

  • AOL Television's 2005 Fall TV Preview 

  • AOL Music's 'The Biz' reality show 

  • AOL Cityguide's Redesign 

  • Transitioned to Cityguide

Graphic Designer

Samson Technologies Corp

Nov 2003 - Feb 2005

WIth a small department of 5 including a Marketing Director, Art Director, Production Designer, A & R, and myself, Designer; this was probably my most important job prior to AOL. I took on several projects that included everything from POP displays, to package design, catalog design, mini websites, full website concepts, photoshoots, and many other great projects. Working under Jim Cavanagh gave me the opportunity to really build on my print design skills, in which he had 15+ years experience in, and I started to realize my full potential.

Graphic Designer

Friar Architecture Inc.

Jun 2001 - Jul 2003

With a small department of 5 including a Marketing Director, Art Director, Production Designer, A & R, and myself, Designer; this was probably my most important job prior to AOL. I took on several projects that included everything from POP displays, to package design, catalog design, mini websites, full website concepts, photoshoots, and many other great projects. Working under Jim Cavanagh gave me the opportunity to really build on my print design skills, in which he had 15+ years experience in, and I started to realize my full potential.

Education

University of Hartford

BFA, Visual Communication

1996 - 2001