Experience
Currently:
Priceline
Design Manager
Promoted from Senior Product Designer
2021-Present
Leading design for Priceline’s Post Booking, Customer Care, & Package offerings.
Leading design initiatives from conceptualization to development, working closely & collaboratively with PMs, engineers, & design team to ensure proper prioritization & implementation
Distilling design concepts into iterative, lean A/B tests; leveraging findings to drive design decisions
Facilitating user testing & research to inform design work & overall direction for product initiatives
Working closely with the Priceline design system to establish & maintain design standards
Spearheading design initiatives & feature implementation, including:
Recent activity features that better highlight & allow users access to their browsing activity
Cross-sell design iterations & strategy
Connected trip features in post booking, across various touch-points
Leading team for Post Booking, Customer Care, & Package design, which includes:
Managing & motivating team
Establishing design processes & strategy for team to ensure both consistency in design as well as continuous exploration
Advocating for design & collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure expectations are aligned & there is buy-in for design work
Guardian Direct
Senior Experience Designer
2020-2021
Product design for an insurtech startup with a mission to bring insurance directly to the people.
Delivered designs with a focus on conversion optimization, balancing user needs with business goals; owning the design for individual product paths
Led the team’s user testing & research efforts, creating scalable systems for recording user insights and generating tangible goals and initiatives from research findings
Translated customer insights into concepts, user journeys, system maps, user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes
Collaborated with multi-disciplinary team including Product Managers, Engineers, Marketers, & Executives
Corra
UX Designer
2018 - 2020
UX design & research for a leading digital & e-commerce agency.
Clients included Sanrio, Baked by Melissa, Wahoo Fitness, & Jomashop.
Collaborated with clients to understand requirements, developed design concepts through sketches & wireframes, & refined solutions based on feedback, analytics, & user testing
Played an active role in developing agency offerings including User Testing, Customer Journey Mapping (CJM), & Audits; resulting in a robust output of metrics & heuristic findings that definitively guided client roadmaps
Worked in cross-disciplinary squads & presented work to client stakeholders; Client projects ranged from succinct quarter-long engagements to complete redesigns
Led design workshops that include sketching, card sorting, & component rating; lessening amount of ramp-up time for UX & design, resulting in more succinct sprints
Created sitemaps & taxonomy structures, utilizing data & client KPIs to guide recommendations
Hylink
2017
Interactive Designer
UX, UI, & prototype design for China's largest independent advertising agency.
Designed UX & UI from low-fidelity sketches to fully functional prototypes for internal & client projects
Worked with developers to oversee the building & implementation of design & interaction specifications
Designed mood boards & visual assets for web designs
Created sitemaps & user flows for internal & client-facing projects
Led agency-wide UX training series on best practices & the role of research in design
Malia Mills
2016 - 2017
Digital Designer
Relaunched & modernized the website & digital presence for luxury swimwear brand.
Relaunched maliamills.com, assisting in the migration & relaunch of the website on Shopify
Designed UX & UI for key elements including filters & site navigation, resulting in an increase in conversion rate
Worked directly with the CEO & Founder to define brand guidelines & design system
Designed homepage banners & layout twice monthly, resulting in higher CTR to featured categories
Executed content strategy & monthly digital marketing calendar informed by analytics, resulting in an increase in website visits & purchases as improvements were made each month
Wrote copy & designed graphics for email newsletters, resulting in an increase of email opens & consistent growth of email list
Barrel
2015 - 2016
Junior UX Designer
Promoted from UX Apprentice
UX design for lifestyle, health, & wellness clients at a boutique e-commerce agency.
Clients included Well + Good, Jacob's Pillow, & Vermont Smoke & Cure.
Designed UX for Shopify & Wordpress websites, gaining a technical understanding of each platform
Spearheaded agency’s user research efforts, leading interviews, focus groups, & online surveys
Created sitemaps with corresponding content collection plans, resulting in an improved intake process
Created user flows & personas, bringing a new level of depth to creative brainstorms & sketch sessions
Led client presentations, showing rounds of work & explaining research & strategy behind UX decisions
Played an active role in internal UX education, specifically focused on utilizing Google Analytics & user research
Skills
Tools: Design: Figma, Adobe Suite, Sketch, Principle; User testing: usertesting.com; Analytics: Google Analytics, Full Story, Hotjar; General: Microsoft Suite; MailChimp
Understanding of: HTML & CSS; Shopify; Magento
Education
Boston University - College of Communication
Bachelor of Science in Communication- Concentration in Advertising
Graduated Magna Cum Laude
Parsons School of Design - The New School
Graphic & Digital Design Certificate Program