LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER

Skills

My work focuses on finding simple, elegant solutions to complex problems all while ensuring great user experiences. Through research, design, and strategy, I strive to improve peoples’ online experiences one click, tap, or scroll at a time.

 

Hard Skills

  • UI Design

  • UX Design

  • Usability Testing: Conducting Qualitative Interviews | A/B Testing

  • Working with and contributing to a design system

  • Wireframing

 
  • Information Architecture

  • Interaction Design

  • App Design

  • Content Strategy

  • Illustration

  • Copywriting/Editing

  • Art Direction

  • Basic understanding of CSS/HTML

 

Soft Skills

  • Collaborating across teams including: product designers, stakeholders, content strategists, user researchers, and developers

  • Experience and passion for making designs accessible to everyone

  • Excellent communication skills; can effectively bring various stakeholders to the same vision and objectives

  • Ability to balance the right business goals with the right decisions for the users

  • Using empathy to design and create enjoyable experiences

  • Experience working and collaborating with diverse teams in a dynamic, rapid growth environment.

  • Extensive experience partnering with Product Managers to develop the strategy and rationale for features.

  • Extensive experience with prototyping as a means to explore and convey design solutions.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

 

Tools

  • Figma

  • Protopie

  • Slack

  • Whiteboards | Markers | Pen/Paper

  • Notion

  • Whimsical

  • Usertesting.com

 
  • Sketch

  • Keynote

  • Usability Testing Tools: Zoom, Airtable, Google Docs

  • Agile / Jira

  • Adobe Suite: Illustrator | Photoshop | InDesign 

Currently focusing on improving interaction skills with:
Protopie.