John Burnett is —

an award-winning user interface artist, user experience designer for 15 years in game and app design with AAA companies like Electronic Arts, Activision, id Software, King, and Google.

I specialize in outsourcing UI and 2D art for companies great and soon-to-be-great as a one-stop shop; from conceptualization to wireframing to asset creation all the way to marketing!

Available for contractual or full-time consultation and always ready to talk, I’d love to bring my experience, expertise, and energy to your current project!

Call of Duty Ghosts

When I was an in-house user interface Artist, I made a lot of connections – many of whom would go on to start their own companies. Enter our hero – Seismic Games, made of the old guard from Pandemic (Electronic Arts). Seismic had been tasked with bringing Call of Duty Ghost’s companion app to life and tapped me to do some of the product design. This was an especially important project because Battlefield 4, Call of Duty’s closest rival had just released and simultaneously launched their companion app. Everybody was bringing their A-game for this one.

The work was a bottom-to-top construction from conceptualization, wireframing, to interactions with Activition’s art director to refine the ui asset creation. After a lot of hard work and a few hotel trips later, the companion app hit the market, making it ever more feature-rich than its longstanding competitor. The companion app was even spotlighted in Activision’s keynote address!

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Genre: FPS, Companion app

Platform: mobile/tablet

Duties: conceptualization, user experience, user interface, wireframing, animation, effects, asset creation

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