Experience / Sean Nana

Creative
Technologist.

I build products, creative workflows, and experiences that help people put new technology to work.

My background connects creative direction with product experience, team leadership, and adoption. That thread runs through Apple, Enjoy, CR3 Labs, and my own creative studio.

I’m drawn to the moments before a playbook exists. Working alongside people, figuring out what matters, and building something they can put to use.

Creative judgment.Hands-on building.Real adoption.

NANA WORKS

Creative technology practice

Where creative direction meets hands-on building. AI gives me more room to experiment, test directions, and refine the work. I build on what works, then create the tools, guidance, and learning experiences that help teams make it their own.

CR3 Labs

Head of Experience & Creator Growth

Led product experience, creative direction, and creator adoption across an AI and 3D product studio. Worked with engineering to shape the experience, then built the guidance and support that helped creators use it.

  • Product experience

    Helped shape OpenPage’s interface around the challenges creators faced bringing designs into 3D, publishing collections, and rewarding community members.

  • Creator adoption

    Built documentation and support systems, led onboarding workshops, and provided hands-on guidance. Brought those conversations back into product decisions.

  • Creative leadership

    Directed brand, content, and product storytelling. Collaborated with engineers and 3D artists, and recorded, narrated, and edited demos that made new capabilities easier to understand.

  • Ecosystem development

    Built the ambassador program and supported creator partnerships. Produced content and decks that helped build community support for grant initiatives.

OpenPage platform outcomes during my tenure

25K+Active users
$500K+Earned by creators
$1.6M+In grants
Explore the OpenPage project ↗
Founder / Acquired by CR3 Labs in 2024

Other Space FM

Created weekly programming for ambitious builders working across AI, web3, and interactive worlds. Hosted conversations, surfaced projects, and connected creators with collaborators and opportunities.

The community became a source of product insights and creator relationships.

NANA LIFESTYLE

Founder & Creative Director

My creative studio and the ongoing home for my work with artists and brands. Building identity and worlds across art, music, design, marketing, merchandise, and live production.

NANA LIFESTYLE visual identity artworkExplore the studio ↗
  • Creative direction

    Developed visual and sonic identity systems that carried across releases, campaigns, physical products, and live experiences.

  • Production

    Directed and produced creative work from concept through delivery, assembling and leading collaborators around each project.

  • Studio operations & artist development

    Built and operated an independent label, managing release strategy, distribution, merchandise, and international touring alongside creative production.

Running the studio taught me to be resourceful, lead creatives, and be an artist in any situation.

Jul 2016 – Sep 2022

Enjoy

Senior Learning & Development Manager

An early member of the learning and development team. Built programs and led facilitators as the business expanded from four to 54+ markets.

3 weeks → 2Redesigned onboarding
  • Onboarding design

    Designed and delivered onboarding for approximately 100 new hires per cohort. Redesigned the program from three weeks to two, preparing teams for work in the field.

  • Team leadership

    Managed eight regional facilitators, developing their practice through coaching, feedback, and shared standards.

  • Partner enablement

    Co-developed training with partners including Apple, Google, AT&T, Sonos, Rogers, BT/EE, and Magic Leap.

  • Organizational change

    Facilitated cross-functional workshops to understand challenges and help teams improve their processes and ways of working.

Jul 2005 – Jun 2016

Apple

Instructional Designer & Facilitator

Spent 11 years designing and facilitating learning experiences for retail teams, Creatives, corporate employees, and customers. Progressed from market training to global curriculum design.

  • Learning design

    Created learning experiences for new employees, Creatives, Apple Business programs, and regional teams.

  • International train the trainer

    Designed learning programs and led train-the-trainer experiences at Apple headquarters for teams from China, Japan, Germany, Brazil, Italy, the UK, and other markets.

  • New store openings

    Delivered two-week onboarding experiences for more than eight new stores, including Grand Central in New York and Covent Garden in London.

  • Live facilitation

    Led market training, business workshops, and briefings, adapting the experience to the people in the room.

The lesson that stayed with me: helping others enrich their lives with technology is more rewarding than mastering any single tool myself.

Across the work.

  • Creative direction

    Visual and sonic identity, storytelling, production, and leading creative collaborators.

  • Product & workflow design

    Discovery, experience design, rapid prototyping, front-end building, creator tools, and AI-enhanced production workflows.

  • Adoption & enablement

    Facilitation, onboarding, documentation, team development, and workflows designed around an organization’s systems and culture.

Education / 2007

San Diego State University

B.A. in Art, emphasis in Multimedia