Experience

Product Designer, Hudu - 08/2023 - Present

  • Established and maintained design system of accessible styles and components; lead a complete overhaul of dark mode theme to improve appearance and meet WCAG AA color contrast requirements

  • Lead design for all new product offerings and features in existing web app, native mobile app (iOS & Android), and browser extension (Chrome & Firefox)

  • Conducted external and internal research to understand needs and pain points to inform feature requirements and design decisions

  • Established and implemented design QA process to ensure products and features met all design acceptance criteria and expected behavior prior to release

  • Established and maintained beta program to gather feedback from users prior to releases, drastically reducing the number of bugs in production

Product Designer, Science37 - 06/2022 - 04/2023

  • Established and maintained design system of accessible styles and components that were utilized daily by 7-person design team for all mobile and web designs

  • Worked with front-end engineers to maintain design system parity across Figma, Storybook, and in-platform to increase consistency across both web platform and mobile app

  • Created and managed a library of 20+ web platform templates, enabling fellow designers to quickly mock up multiple hi-fi, reliable iterations of a given flow

User Experience Designer and Education Specialist, Quickly, Inc. - 09/2020 - 06/2022

  • Established and maintained a design system of font styles, colors, and components along with user-centered designs for all product offerings across web and mobile app (iOS and Android)

  • Conducted user interviews to understand unique product needs and establish feature acceptance criteria

  • Conducted internal testing and QA for new features and products, finalizing with developers prior to release

  • Coordinated cross-functionally with development and marketing teams to create release notes and support materials

Education

Pratt Institute

Digital Product Design

UX/UI Mobile Design

W3C

WAI0.1x Introduction to Web Accessibility

University of Florida

B.S. Public Relations

Skills

Design

  • Product Design

  • UX/UI Design

  • Mobile Design

  • Wireframing

  • Prototyping

  • Design Systems

  • Information Architecture

  • Copywriting

  • Accessibility

Research

  • User Interviews

  • Usability Testing

  • Empathy Mapping

  • Journey Mapping

  • Affinity Mapping

  • Persona Building

  • Competitive Analysis

Tools

  • Figma

  • Shortcut

  • HubSpot

  • Jira

  • Confluence

  • Miro