Director of User Experience
Leading UI and UX after years as Product Owner. Ozone is pioneering the modern rig: one interchange file that plays the same in Maya, Unreal, Houdini, and Blender, in real time on CPU and GPU.
Kai Husen · Corona, CA
If it has amoving pixel,I've probablybuilt it.
Designer, developer, and creative director telling stories where physical space meets the screen. Director of User Experience at Ozone. Husband, dad of three, and a lifelong Corona kid.
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Story Technology & Experience Design
Former CTO, still collaborating with the Storyland team on experience design projects for theme parks, brands, and immersive spaces.
Where it began · 2006
Hired at 18, right out of Folsom High. PlainJoe is where I learned the craft, building websites for churches, nonprofits, and ministries as it grew into Storyland. Fun fact: that orange has followed me from PlainJoe all the way to Ozone.
Mars / M&M's ✦The Marvel Experience ✦NVIDIA GTC × SHI ✦AMD · Like! ✦Netflix · Love, Death & Robots ✦SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live ✦Saddleback Church ✦Willow Creek ✦Mariners Church ✦Crossroads Christian Church ✦Haven Today ✦Veritas ✦Kitestring ✦Media Social ✦Vemory (acq. by GoPro) ✦Deadly Viper ✦Mars / M&M's ✦The Marvel Experience ✦NVIDIA GTC × SHI ✦AMD · Like! ✦Netflix · Love, Death & Robots ✦SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live ✦Saddleback Church ✦Willow Creek ✦Mariners Church ✦Crossroads Christian Church ✦Haven Today ✦Veritas ✦Kitestring ✦Media Social ✦Vemory (acq. by GoPro) ✦Deadly Viper ✦
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Design / UX
The Designer
Design is the thing I do better than almost anyone in the room. Now leading UI and UX as Director of User Experience at Ozone.
- Design
- 10
- Taste
- 10
- Pixel Care
- 9
Special move: Right brain + left brain, same frame
THE PANELS
Ozone × SHI × NVIDIA GTC
The back of my head made the main stage.
SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live
Helped lead up Ozone's 2025 Real-Time Live presentation.
Like! · AMD
Product-managed Like!, an animated short made with AMD under the Ozone banner.
Netflix · Love, Death & Robots
Worked on an episode of the series. Credits also include boom operation and production support.
IMDb ↗Brands & experiences
Creative direction, design, and web for Mars (M&M's) and The Marvel Experience at Storyland.
Faith
The 11th-Hour Christian
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I grew up in church. Crossroads has been home since I was a kid. For a lot of my younger years, I was what I'd call an 11th-hour Christian: live the life you want, and at the 11th hour, rededicate your life to Jesus.
What I've come to realize is that people who plan to make that decision at the 11th hour...
They usually die at 10:30.
So I don't want to live with regrets. I want to spend eternity with Jesus, and that means living a life that isn't about me. It's about the people around me and the path Jesus has put in front of me.
POURED INTO ME
SWhere it all started
My DadPastor for 30+ years, law school later in life, laid-back surfer genius. My first call for advice.
Peter McGowanAlmost like an older brother. From walking into meetings with him as a young kid all the way to today, he taught me attention to detail, how to take feedback on my designs, and even how to think about investing.
APoured in deep
Mike Foster
Shawn Stewart
BShaped the journey
Joe & Kelsey Sibal
Ed McGowan
Mel McGowan
Kim Jetton
Blake Ryan
Richard Boyda
Rachapong Panichikit(A)
…and so many others. Thank you.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
— Sir Ken Robinson, "Do Schools Kill Creativity?"
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
— W.B. Yeats, quoted by Sir Ken Robinson about our children