renaise
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renaise

designer, she/her

lpd @soot

6 days ago

About

Indie designer shaping brand, web, and software experiences…

Projects

2024

Established brand identity "Hieronymous", MVP, and new distribution models for the Flora editor. Planted seeds. Convinced founder to change name from "flowers.ai" to Flora (thank god)

2023

Mythra (mith-ruh), (noun), is the concept of a latent space of available internet resources that LLMs can request by turning natural language queries into HTTP request strings.

2023
TapTime

Designed a management tool for employers to track employee clock-ins, alerts, and schedules.

2022
Racer Brands

Articulately designed and pitched cuisine product brands to my client, Racer, to bring to production.

2020
Magic

Designed and prototyped a smart Youtube extention that detects products listed and generates a quick link to the following purchase site.

Work Experience

2024 — Now
SOOTWORLD

Designing the spatial file system and liquiding the metal
Holding the stakes of Linear + Figma

2023 — Now
Product Designer at renaise.com

Renaise is a single person studio and is the creative consultancy and design practice of (mainframe) based Product Designer - Renaise. The studio has a reputation of producing striking visual identities and imagery for early stage companies.

2024 — 2024

Led redesign sprint for the global customer-facing site for Aputure - a manufacturing company for industrial pro-lighting

2022 — 2023
rememe

Founding designer for two products; rememe (formerly Collage) and rememe friends. Carried out tasks cross-functionally with growth, research, and development.

2021 — 2022
Product Designer at Racer

Core Experience and User Acquisition (Growth). Initiated the brand identity for virtual brands from conception to direction. Designed, managed, and A/B tested static and user generated ads.

2021 — 2021
Product Designer at WITH

Core Experience - Mobile. Conductive qualitative interviews and internal ideation workshops. Designed and maintained core design system and style library application.

2020 — 2021
Product Designer at Vokal

Contract role

2020 — 2020
UX Design Intern at Legion

Side Projects

Ongoing

Artifice is a cultural index (basically event series) of gallery concepts we call Black Box (digital media) and White Box (physical media) every season.

Curation and direction done by Bobi, Ethan, Sarah and I.
Conducted brand identity and production design.
Renaise leans into White Box production
Bobi leans into Black Box production

Artifice exists so more artifices can happen!

2024

A collective of technologists trying to build the future of IRL/URL experiences, decentralized technologies and distributed companies, with past experience working with unicorns, top creatives, artists, musicians, entertainers & brands

Exhibitions

2024
NYC

The human condition under late-stage capitalism as told through subject matter centered around toilets.

Awards

2023

Proof of Concept: protocol summoning natural language queries into HTTP requests. Re-imagining the paradigm of resource accessibility on solving modern-day problems (booking flights, asking for weather, etc)

2020
Creative Jam Airbnb x Adobe Winner from Adobe

Collaborated with a team of 3 to present Airbnb Journals - a networked documentation and itinerary tool for Trips and Experiences on Airbnb.

2019
Facebook Community Hackathon Productivity Winner from Facebook

Worked with a team of four to launch Munchbot - a Messenger bot streamlining nearby quick bite recommendations nearby filtering from cuisine to budget for the end user.

Volunteering

2020 — Now

Offering portfolio critique and university/early career advice to incoming and post grad students.

Education

2017 — 2021
Chicago

Visual communications + art and technology concentration.

Contact

Teams

Current
SOOT