Summary
Topher Howlett is a versatile designer with 10 years of experience crafting brand identities, product interfaces, and packaging from his base in Kitchener, Ontario. He blends hands-on studio work at Howlett Studios with senior product design and UX architecture roles at ApplyBoard, bringing both strategic product thinking and pixel-level execution. His background spans software UX (including video editing tools at Sony Creative Software), product management, and visual storytelling, enabling him to translate complex workflows into clear, usable experiences. Comfortable leading end-to-end projects, he pairs traditional graphic craft—honed through photography lab and print experience—with modern UI/UX practices. Notably, he has moved between freelance entrepreneurship and in-house product teams, giving him a pragmatic sense for scalable design systems and business constraints. He is passionate about creating purposeful visual systems that solve real user problems while remaining striking and memorable.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Waterloo