THN Design
Trent Nguyen · Portfolio
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Human-centered design,
driven by behavioral insight
and real-world impact.

I'm Trent Nguyen, Director of UX Design & Research. For more than 20 years I've helped Fortune 500 brands turn complex digital experiences into clear, measurable, and genuinely useful products.

Selected Work

More case studies.

Recent engagements across automotive, energy, logistics, and luxury sectors.

Luxury Automotive Infiniti
UX Lead Architecture Prototyping

Modernizing Infiniti's Vehicle Research Section

A modular, future-ready research experience balancing exploration with shopping readiness, delivering measurable engagement gains.

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B2B / Commercial Nissan NCV
Field Research Configurator

Empowering B2B buyers through research-driven design

A vehicle visualizer for tradespeople, fleet managers, and upfitters, grounded in dealership field studies and behavioral data.

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Accessibility SWGas
WCAG Audit Screen Reader Testing

Enhancing accessibility for Southwest Gas

WCAG 2.1 AA compliance and inclusive design for a utility platform serving 2M+ customers, across web and a third-party MyAccount portal.

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Redesign · CMS Migration SWGas
UX Director UI/UX Design Art Direction

Redesigning swgas.com on Oracle WebCenter Sites

A 15-month UX-led redesign and platform migration moving Southwest Gas from a legacy CMS to Oracle WebCenter Sites.

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Revenue Cycle · Workflow HCA
UX Director UX Design Workflow Design

Systematizing dispute resolution for HCA Healthcare

A tracked workflow tool that replaced email-and-spreadsheet claim dispute tracking, recovering more in reimbursements than it cost to build.

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Field Hardware UPS Devices
Heuristic Evaluation Field Hardware

Heuristic evaluations of UPS's handheld devices

Usability findings across the DIAD V, the hands-free Ring Scanner, and a rugged Zebra handheld, with full evaluations available for two.

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UX Strategy UPS
UX Maturity Org Strategy

UPS UX Maturity Assessment

An organizational evaluation that reframed UX as a strategic business partner, resulting in formal ResearchOps and KPI alignment.

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Travel & Hospitality · Concept LVCVA
Vision Work UI Design

A Vision for Visit Las Vegas

A concept exploration for the LVCVA showing how hotel discovery, booking, and interactive tour video could evolve for the modern traveler.

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Hospitality & Luxury · Concept Wynn | Encore
Personas Journey Mapping

Defining guest personas and journeys for Wynn | Encore Las Vegas

Three distinct guest personas, a VIP gaming guest, a milestone couple, and a convention attendee, each mapped end to end across their stay.

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Featured Nissan USA
Strategy Lead IA Research

Redesigning NissanUSA.com

A 13-month research-led redesign of Nissan's flagship platform, used by millions of shoppers monthly across desktop and mobile.

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Senior Care · Dashboards ClearWellness
UX Director Personas Journey Mapping AI-Assisted Research

Role-based wellness dashboards for ClearWellness

A connected system of four dashboards, coach manager, agency, corporate, and member, built on one shared wellness scoring model.

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Capabilities

What I practice.

The specific disciplines I bring to every engagement, applied where they move the needle, not as a checklist.

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Services

How I help teams ship better experiences.

End-to-end UX leadership, from foundational research and strategy through design execution and team enablement.

Foundational Research

Understand your users before a single pixel is designed.

  • Stakeholder interviews
  • Behavioral & attitudinal research
  • Persona development
  • Customer journey mapping

Usability Testing

Test early, test often. Eliminate guesswork.

  • Remote & in-person testing
  • Moderated & unmoderated sessions
  • Accessibility testing (VoiceOver, JAWS)
  • Task-based testing with real users

Heuristic & Expert Reviews

Rapid expert review to identify and prioritize what's actually broken.

  • Heuristic evaluation (Nielsen's 10)
  • Accessibility audit (WCAG)
  • UX scorecards
  • Competitive benchmarking

Strategy & Leadership

End-to-end UX strategy, planning, and team enablement.

  • UX leadership & consulting
  • Team mentorship & training
  • Cross-functional workshops
  • RFP evaluation & UX roadmaps

Analytics & Synthesis

Bring data and user stories together.

  • UX metrics & KPIs
  • Session replay & heatmap analysis
  • Survey design & interpretation
  • Executive insight reporting

Research-Driven Design

Translate insights into clear, usable, accessible design.

  • Wireframes & clickable prototypes
  • Interaction & behavior patterns
  • Responsive web & mobile UI
  • Design systems & documentation
Selected Clients

Designed for organizations operating at scale.

Enterprise engagements spanning automotive, healthcare, retail, travel, and technology.

Audi
Honda
Hyundai
Infiniti
Kia
Mazda
Mitsubishi
Nissan
Toyota
AutoNation
HP
AT&T
Nike
Adidas
Etsy
Humana
McKesson
HCA Healthcare
UPS
United
Southwest Gas
SoCalGas
Southern California Edison
San Diego Gas & Electric
Raytheon
About

Research-led. Outcome-focused.

User Research Journey Mapping Information Architecture Usability Testing Design Strategy Accessibility (WCAG) Design Systems Team Leadership Workshop Facilitation

UX Design and Research Leader with 20+ years working with Fortune 500 clients across automotive, healthcare, energy, and retail.

I focus on the gap between what analytics show and what users actually do, and on fixing it in ways organizations can sustain. That's meant leading everything from full site redesigns and accessibility overhauls to research practice builds and UX maturity assessments.

I also mentor designers and researchers, and treat inclusive design as part of the definition of done, not an audit at the end.

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Let's Connect

Need research-backed UX leadership on your next engagement?

Whether you're rethinking a flagship product, scaling a research practice, or trying to make sense of complex user behavior, I'd love to talk.

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Phone
714.300.5586
Location
Las Vegas, NV 89120
Availability
Open to new engagements