nicklaus

nicklaus

product design in los angeles, he/they

About

Just a silly goofy designer.

Work Experience

2022 — Now
Los Angeles, CA
  • As the founding designer, led the product design for the MVP of a series A startup. This 0>1 product is aimed at making go-to-market insights available seamlessly by building an end-to-end solution: from one-click Salesforce setup changes to viewing, storing, and transforming sales and marketing data into charts & dashboards.
  • Consistently elevated designs by soliciting feedback and conducting research sessions with peers, stakeholders, and design partners through formal reviews and presentations on a weekly cadence.
  • Held design and product jam internal exercises to goal-set and align the team on product strategy.
  • Created content strategy, brand elements, and marketing collateral from the ground up.
2019 — 2020
Product Designer at Armada Chain
San Francisco, CA

My role as Armada’s first and only product designer involved product direction and management, wireframing concepts, UX, visual design, and prototyping. I worked closely with the 2 founders to redesign the entire product that aligns with their new direction and vision. After the first 3 months, we shipped the MVP of the web app.

2018 — 2019
Product Designer at Designation
Chicago, IL

I conducted user interviews, synthesized insights, created low- to high-fidelity wireframes, mapped user flows, and iterated based on feedback gathered from facilitating concept and usability tests. I evaluated business and user goals through research, ideation, and testing to create meaningful web and mobile interfaces for 2 early seed-stage Chicago startups.

2017 — 2018
Product Design Intern at Zoom Video Communications
San Jose, CA

I had full ownership and responsibility over the designs of many upcoming features, taking them from initial conceptualization to launch. Some notable projects I worked on were:

  • The desktop platform redesign, one of the design team’s biggest endeavors of 2018. I created hi-fidelity screens and wireframes while implementing the design system being established at the same time.
  • The Zoom product content and copy guidelines, a standardized document of rules I advocated the need for. After identifying the gaps in the consistency of copy across all their products and receiving approval, I authored and executed on Zoom’s product content and copy guidelines.

Education

2013 — 2017
B.S. Managerial Economics at University of California, Davis
Davis, CA

Contact

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