Looking for a lead/principal/staff design systems role...
About
A midwest nerd with a penchant for Sci-FI UI/UX and design systems.
Work Experience
Collaborated with the founders and product owner to strategize the product roadmap and vision.
Led the creation of multiple product features including designs for a component catalog, comprehensive documentation for those components, and a refined Uiflow Studio UI.
Worked with the design team to establish a formal design process including discovery, user research, and design sprints.
Mentored new design team members through the use of workshops and tutorial sessions.
Skills: Software as a Service (SaaS) · User Experience (UX) · User Experience Design (UED) · Design Ops · Design Systems · Product Design · Visual Design · UX Research
Worked alongside customers and product stakeholders to research and design solutions that accelerated and improved subscription retention for Zuora’s customers.
Developed a design system strategy to deliver functional and visual consistency across the Zuora product ecosystem. This effort delivered substantial gains in feature completion rates and reduced the volume of customer complaints.
Skills: Web Applications · Software as a Service (SaaS) · User Experience (UX) · User Experience Design (UED) · Design Systems · Product Design · Visual Design · UX Research
Charged with creating security-minded, data-rich applications with visualizations for various enterprise applications for the Threat Systems business unit.
Led a small but agile UX team to adopt design system thinking and tooling which has helped bring consistency to patterns, fit-and-finish to the UI, and reduced overhead for engineers across business units.
Advocated to align all other business units to the design system in an effort to help scale the benefits seen in the Threat Systems business unit.
Skills: Design Strategy · Web Applications · Software as a Service (SaaS) · User Experience (UX) · User Experience Design (UED) · Design Systems · Visual Design · UX Research
Collaborated across various disciplines and teams to coordinate and conduct research, iterate and produce product designs for the Quickbooks Small Business financial product.
Mentored junior UX, visual, and product designers to help them adopt a systemic thinking model that would allow them to work more effectively as a team and take advantage of the Intuit Design System. This helped reduce friction between teams as they could better understand feature requirements and implementation needs.
Skills: User Experience (UX) · User Experience Design (UED) · Design Systems · Product Design · Visual Design · UX Research
Helped create the visual framework for the Company Pages feature. This allowed for white-labelling and substantial company profile page customization.
Formed the "Davinci" horizontal design and engineering team in an effort to create a living, extensible UI pattern library (now known as design systems) while fostering cross-team collaboration, implementing adoption & evangelization strategy, while including research and development teams as key stakeholders.
Worked to create and devise new ways for LinkedIn to scale monetization systems including the Premium account product, user-generated ad systems, and the LinkedIn Recruiter product.
Skills: User Experience (UX) · User Experience Design (UED) · Design Systems · Product Design · Visual Design · UX Research