Erik Bue —

Hidey-ho, neighbor!

I'm Erik —

Product designer, UX/UI designer, whatever-you-wanna-call-it...really I'm just a problem solver who cares about crafting products and experiences that are useful, useable, and beautiful. Currently at Garten, designing things that help improve workplace well-being.

The Work —

2019-Present · Sr. UI/UX Designer

Wellbeing at work

Helping Garten promote workplace well-being by designing elegant solutions to complex problems for both internal and consumer-facing products.

2018-2019 · Sr. Product Designer

Soundhound & Hound mobile apps

Initiated and led a redesign of the SoundHound mobile app. Supported design work on the Hound voice assistant app by creating intuitive conversational workflows and by owning and promoting a cohesive design system.

2016-2018 · Product Designer

Enterprise Design

Involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle, from brainstorming and defining requirements with PMs, to designing and testing interfaces, as well as working with engineers to make sure everything comes together just right.

2017 · Design & Front-End Dev

My Favorite Albums

Minisite(s) to showcase my favorite albums of the year. These are personal projects that allow me to combine my love of music with design, while also improving my front-end development skills.

2016 · Design & Front-End Dev

Music for you, picked by Bue!

A personal playlist site created to help share my passion for music. Each week I posted a new set of songs that I liked and/or thought others might like too. Design exploration turned working thing!

Exercise Tracker

An app for the fitness buff (pun intended) that uses the built-in sensors of Android Wear and Apple Watch devices to automatically detect exercises and count repetitions.

Personal Trainer

Provides video workout routines for users to follow along to. Built primarily for people that are new to the fitness world and want more help with their workout routines.