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“The difficulties reside in design, not in the people attempting to use them.”

Don Norman

6 years of product design across fintech, telecom and streaming. What holds those together isn’t the industry — it’s the shape of the problem: a flow people keep walking away from, and a business that needs them to finish it.

Before product design I ran a studio for 5 years, which means I have sat on the other side of the table — writing the budget, hiring the crew, answering for the result. It changed how I argue for design decisions: not by taste, but by what the decision costs and what it returns.

Bonnie Tao

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How I got here

  1. Now

    Current role

    Sr. Product Designer — Rogers Communications

    Leading the consolidation of the Internet, TV and Home Monitoring purchase paths into one — across 3 PMs, 4 development teams and 2 customer types. Every design decision on it is mine.

  2. 2022

    December

    Product Designer — ATB Financial

    18 months of freelance contracting in the Money Movement portfolio, taken on alongside Rogers. Opened e-Transfers to phone numbers across iOS, Android and web.

  3. 2022

    April

    Joined Rogers Communications

    The residential buyflow: the path Internet, TV and Home Monitoring all sell through, and where a small change on one page reaches every customer. Started with Cart Summary.

  4. 2021

    February

    Product Designer — iQiyi North America

    14 months as design prime for the region — the only designer across 6 platform surfaces. Ran the research myself and left behind the first design system.

  5. 2016

    February

    Co-founder — IMAGIC

    Ran my own studio for 5 years: design partner to 25+ small businesses, and producer for concerts bringing Asian artists through North America. Budgets and crews, not only screens.

  6. 2015

    September

    MA — Royal Holloway, University of London

    International Broadcasting in Television and Film. It is where the storytelling habit comes from — the part of design that decides what to show first. Then back to Toronto.

  7. 2014

    June

    BA — University of Toronto

    Double major in New Media Studies and Studio Arts, and my first contact with HTML, CSS and UI concepts for the web. The same year I applied to a master's in London to keep going with broadcasting.

  8. 2009

    September

    Moved to Toronto

    Left home to study abroad and started living on my own.