Joel Swick

Joel Swick

Product Designer in Greater Seattle Area

Work Experience

2021 — Now
San Diego, CA
  • Designed innovative components and solved complex problems for Capital One's internal design system, resulting in a 30% increase in user engagement with video content and 15% improvement in search engine visibility.

  • Built a user-centric digital platform for Capital One Ventures, leveraging journey mapping, visual design, design research, and human-centered design to improve market visibility and user experience, resulting in increased engagement and streamlined workflows.

  • Lead Product Designer for a $1.5 million contract, building and maintaining a Figma design system across 14+ sites, including migration to Contentful + Next.js/Vercel.

  • Built and maintained design systems, product strategy, and roadmaps for 30+ clients in B2B and SaaS products using tokens and variables, defining pattern libraries, and documentation, and ensuring agile design and scrum processes.

  • Demonstrated leadership in talent acquisition, conducting 25 interviews, making 8 hiring decisions, and managing a cross-functional design team of 10 designers encouraging idea generation and providing feedback.

  • Produced intuitive web experiences for Webstacks and clients using research data, user journeys, mockup wireframes, thoughtful storytelling, and stakeholder interviews to give constructive feedback and ship prototypes with Figma, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Webflow, Framer, and Origami.

  • Collaborated with engineers, product managers, SEO and QA analysts, and clients aligning on design goals, resulting in a 20% increase in project alignment and 15% reduction in development time. Applied information architecture and iterative design processes ensuring high-end decision making.

2018 — 2021
Bellingham, WA
  • Produced in-house designs and marketing materials, including web ads and emails, resulting in a 25% increase in brand visibility and a 13% improvement in audience engagement.

  • Built over 60 animations and art directed a team of 4 in-house motion artists encouraging creativity, leading to a 50% increase in content production and a 30% improvement in animation quality.

  • Contributed over 30,000 assets to Proclaim Presentation Software, tripling its media library.

  • Collaborated with the Software Development team to enhance products based on user needs through effective user stories and user testing.

Education

2014 — 2018
Bachelors in Design at Full Sail University
Winter Park, FL

Certifications

2023
Inbound Marketing Optimization Certification from Hubspot

Refine and optimize your inbound marketing strategy. Develop successful inbound marketing projects. Uncover key customer insights.

2023
Growth-Driven Design Certification from Hubspot

Introduction to agile web design and project management. Build and optimize a website with GDD methodology. Transform the way you work and attract more leads.

2023
‍Content Marketing Certification from Hubspot

Learn a content creation framework for producing effective content on a consistent basis. Create and repurpose content that both humans and search engines will love.

2023
‍Mutiny Fundamentals Certification from Mutiny

A high-level overview for all levels of your team to understand key conversion rate optimization learnings that can be applied to websites.

Contact

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