Paul Garber

Creative Director

I help teams create amazing experiences.

As a design leader and developer, I specialize in bridging the divides between design, development, engineering and marketing.

Previous projects

ILLUSTRATION AND ANIMATION

Illustration and animation work

A collection of my illustration and animation work utilizing Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, Fresco and Procreate.

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Illustration and animation showcase

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UBOT DEEP DIVE

AI-powered retail greeter robot

Customers walking into any of the 700+ uBreakiFix retail stores were frequently met with an empty Front of House and more questions than answers. Leadership proposed a bold futuristic solution, but how would customers react?

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uBot, the AI-powered uBreakiFix greeter robot

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ASURION SPOTLIGHT

Sales training and analytics

Sales for protection plans had peaked, but one store in New Jersey always beat the market. Our team was tasked with figuring out their secret to success, and if a software platform could replicate it.

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Asurion sales training and analytics platform

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FRONT OF HOUSE EVOLUTION

Creating a digital retail experience

Our retail experience was functioning, but we were missing an opportunity to make customers feel welcomed and engaged. We set out on a journey to reimagine the customer experience, and get the numbers to back it up.

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uBreakiFix front of house retail concept

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VANTAGE

Interactive data analytics

Executive stakeholders lacked a way to visualize the data they needed to make informed decisions. As my team dug into needs and use cases, we realized the opportunity was much larger than what another Power BI dashboard could deliver.

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Vantage interactive data analytics dashboard

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ASURION FLOWSTATE

AI powered kickstarter

Our Figma component library had grown too large for designers to navigate by hand, so people started duplicating old projects instead — dragging along their bugs and repeating their structure. For our AI Hackathon, I led a team building a chat-based plugin that could assemble new pages from the library on command.

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Asurion FlowState AI powered component implementation

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THESAMEPHONE.COM

A scrappy repair campaign

To boost leads for uBreakiFix stores in key regions, my team designed an out-of-home campaign mimicking a traditional smartphone launch, with increasingly unhinged posters and billboards driving customers to a countdown landing page at thesamephone.com.

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thesamephone.com out-of-home campaign posters wheatpasted on a wall

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About me

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ABOUT PAUL

Design nerd / people leader

For 20 years I've had the pleasure of working on creative projects to make people's lives easier, bring joy, and help teams successfully launch products at companies large and small.

Through my career my work has ranged from product design, marketing, dev work, server admin, video / motion graphics and illustration. This diverse range of experiences helps me coordinate between teams and lead projects with a first-hand understanding of what it takes to efficiently hit a deadline.

I'm a Bay Area native, cat dad and TTRPG enthusiast.

Software

Master

  • Figma
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • After Effects
  • Premiere
  • Lightroom
  • Claude Code
  • Procreate

Pro

  • Cursor
  • ChatGPT
  • VS Code
  • Rhino 3D
  • Office Suite
  • Automatic 1111
  • Fresco
  • Userzoom

Good

  • InDesign
  • Canva
  • Notion
  • ElevenLabs
  • Github
  • v0

Languages and server management

  • React
  • SASS / CSS
  • Vercel
  • AWS EC2
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS S3

Other skills

  • Systems design
  • Mentoring
  • Conflict resolution
  • Project management
  • Public speaking
  • Client presentations
  • Voice over
  • Electrical engineering
  • 3D printing
  • Illustration
  • User testing
  • Software training
  • Workflow optimization

Contact

Interested in working together? Let's chat.

paul@paulgarber.com
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