Darrin Henein

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.

Currently, Vice President of UX at Shopify.

Selected Work

Projects I've designed, directed or built from scratch.

Shopify POS

Strategy, Direction & Leadership

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.

Red Dot Winner

Tap & Chip, POS Go

iF Design Winner

POS Go

Jetpack is an app I built in Swift and SwiftUI, with a backend I wrote in Ruby on Rails.

Jetpack App

Design & Programming

Lastronaut

Art, Music & Code

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