Director of Design @ AnyRoad

Designing systems for brands, products & experiences.

Senior design leadership at the intersection of strategy, systems, brand, product, and operations. Currently directing design across AnyRoad's platform and a premium loyalty ecosystem powering 20+ programs.

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Years in design
10+
Senior IC through design leadership across product, brand, and experience.
At AnyRoad
7y
Senior PD → Staff PD → Design Manager → Director of Design.
Collaborations
200+
Across enterprise tech, spirits, retail, sports, pharma, and consumer brands.
Programs designed
20+
Loyalty programs led from strategy to launch.
Diageo Budweiser LALIGA Pernod Ricard Molson Coors William Grant & Sons Heaven Hill Campari Group Castle & Key Proximo Spirits Otsuka The North Face Arc'teryx Westfield Michaels Amazon eBay IBM SAP VMware NetApp Nutanix Lockheed Martin Arrow AAA

Selected Work

Featured stories across membership ecosystems, fan experience, and product UX. Additional case studies available on request, including NDA-protected client work.
Lifetime Loyalty
01 / Ecosystem

From one-off launches to a premium membership ecosystem powering 20+ programs.

Led the design and architecture that turned a custom loyalty product into a repeatable system. Now powers 20+ membership programs across member journeys, brand expression, live events, allocated releases, and the operational backbone that holds it all together.

Brands
20+ scaled
Surface
Ecosystem
Role
Director
Strategy / Service Design / UX / Brand Systems / Operations2023 → present Read case study
LL12 x LALIGA
02 / Experience

A fan acquisition system that turned LALIGA watch parties into LL12 members.

Led design across the LL12 x LALIGA partnership: the El Partidazo public watch party series, the NYC launch event with LALIGA legends, member-only meetups, and the brand, merch, acquisition, and digital systems behind it.

Members
11,786 enrolled
Reach
14 cities · 65 events
Role
Director
Brand / Identity / Live Events / Acquisition / App2025 Read case study
AnyRoad — bookings list
— Operations / Bookings
AnyRoad Atlas — insights
— Analytics / Insights
AnyRoad mobile — check-in
— Field App / Check-in
AnyRoad — group calendar
— Scheduling / Calendar
AnyRoad — booking detail
— Guest Experience / Detail
AnyRoad mobile — guest detail
— Field App / Guest
AnyRoad — revenue analytics
— Analytics / Revenue
AnyRoad — create booking
— Operations / Create
03 / Platform

Designing across an entire experiential marketing platform.

Seven years at AnyRoad, IC to Director. Grew the design surface area from a single event-management product into a multi-product platform spanning operations, guest experience, analytics, field activations, and premium loyalty. Customers include Diageo, Anheuser-Busch, Ben & Jerry's, and Sierra Nevada.

Reach
90+ countries
Users
1.3M+ / year
Role
Director
Platform Design / Enterprise UX / Design Leadership / AI / ML UX2019 → present Read case study
Design Leadership Experience Strategy UX Strategy Product Design Design Systems Brand Strategy Visual Design Prototyping Membership Ecosystems Premium Loyalty Team Building HTML / CSS

Design Leadership

Building and directing multidisciplinary teams, design systems, and the rituals that make good decisions get made at scale.

Systems & Product

Turning ambiguous business goals into coherent platforms, products, and customer journeys that hold up as they scale.

Brand & Experience

Designing premium digital and physical experiences: identity, live events, and the operational backbone underneath.

The short version of the philosophy behind the work.

A design director's job isn't to make every decision. It's to make sure the right decisions get made. These three habits are how I try to do that.
— 01

Start at the system, not the screen.

Most premium experience problems aren't UI problems. They're operating model problems. I begin with the journey, the operations, and the business logic. Then I design the layers that make it real.

— 02

Design what's actually buildable.

Fluent in Figma, Sketch, and Adobe. Hands-on across the no-code and low-code stack: Webflow, Memberstack, Stripe, Vercel, Supabase, Zapier, and whatever else gets the program shipped. Comfortable in HTML and CSS. Knowing how things actually ship keeps the work honest. If it can't ship, it isn't a design.

— 03

Lead the team, then close the gaps.

I lead a multidisciplinary team across product, brand, and research. In a lean environment, I also stay close to the work. I write copy, prototype flows, and ship details when it matters.

Let's
work together.

Lawrence Ngo

The best work happens where brand, product, and experience meet. If that's your problem, let's talk.

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