Resume

 

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