A designer's superpower is to show people the future.
With over 20 years of experience, I've worked at some amazing places—like Mozilla, Polar and Wattpad, after getting my start as a freelance consultant. I'm also an entrepreneur and have built products like the hashtag manager Jetpack, the beautiful Muskoka: The Board Game, and created the award-winning, beloved indie game Lastronaut.
I spent nearly a decade as the Vice President of Design at Shopify.
Currently, Chief Design Officer at Owner.
Selected Work
Projects I've designed, directed or built from scratch.
As the Director of UX for Shopify Retail, I built and led the research, product design and industrial design teams. I was responsible for the overall strategy, design and direction of our hardware and software experiences.
Jetpack is an app I built in Swift and SwiftUI, with a backend I wrote in Ruby on Rails.
All programming in Objective-C and C++ • Created all art, sound and music • Over 2M downloads • Awarded Apple's Editors' Choice • Nominated at the Canadian Video Game Awards
Experience
Featured Press
NEW
I recently had the pleasure of being a guest on Dive Club and my episode "The new bar for design excellence at Shopify" is now live.
The new bar for design excellence at Shopify — Darrin Henein
Dive Club ⇀
Two Ontario couples just created a board game that's a homage to Muskoka
blogTO ⇀
Lastronaut Is A Totally Free, Totally Addictive Endless Running Game For iPhone
TechCrunch ⇀
Move over Monopoly, Muskoka’s getting its own board game
Toronto Star ⇀
Inside Shopify UX
Anchor.fm ⇀
This Is the Golden Age of Indie Game Art
New York Observer ⇀
The Process Behind UX Design with Darrin Henein
MaRS ⇀
