About Rain
I'm a senior UI/UX designer with extensive experience working with startups, helping successfully launch Saas products from ideation to MVP and beyond. My products are used by millions today and past clients include Airstream, Arcadia Group, KPMG, Mastercard, News UK and more. I focus on product strategy, validating design decisions along the entire product lifecycle, creating a scalable design system, an MVP and product roadmap.
English
Native or bilingual
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Freelance UX/UI Product DesignLead Product (UX/UI) Design ConsultantNovember 2016 - Today (9 years and 7 months)1809 E 11th St, Tulsa, OK 74104, USAWorking as a consultant mainly with early stage startups to help them launch new products, grow existing ones and/or develop product strategy and vision. My responsibilities include:
- Leading the full product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch and post-launch iteration.
- Building a product strategy that sets a design foundations that help build a product from the grounds up.
- Collaborating with management and cross-functional teams to gather requirements and user needs, proposing creative and practical, design solutions.
- Managing and mentoring design teams and junior designers, reviewing the quality of their work, providing feedback and helping them hone their craft.
- Facilitating user research including: interviews, user testing, surveys and workshops to collect and integrate feedback into design updates.
- Presenting design concepts, progress and solutions to stakeholders, users and team members for clear communication, coordination and clarification.
- Creating and further developing design systems that are scalable, ensuring consistency with growth across the company products.
- Creating flow charts, wireframes, mockups, and clickable prototypes for testing and to effectively communicate the user experience. Clients include: Airstream - Designing a new e-commerce website for Airstream's products and accessories. Agoro - Designing a new B2B2C tool, helping agronomists calculate carbon potential in farm fields and discuss the benefits of farming changes both financially and environmentally. Arcadia Group - Creating a fully responsive platform to serve the group's 7 brands. (Topshop, Burton, Miss selfridges and more) Cera Care - A digital system consisting of an internal software and two apps within the home care industry. Mastercard - Creating a B2B platform ProFinda - Designing a new platform, based on a design system, to serve the big four in their HR management needs.
- SPRINGBOARDUX/UI Design MentorJanuary 2020 - Today (6 years and 5 months)1809 E 11th St, Tulsa, OK 74104, USAI mentor Springboard students, helping them achieve their dreams of becoming skilled UX/UI designers through weekly mentoring sessions.- Explain UX/UI design concepts, processes, and methodologies such as: UX research Wireframing & Prototyping Testing UI design Design systems- Provide detailed project feedback and teach them how to apply concepts they learn to tackle real-world problems on the job- Helping students achieve their goals and approving course completion
- SwygProduct DesignerJune 2020 - June 2021 (1 year)1809 E 11th St, Tulsa, OK 74104, USABeing the sole designer at this innovative early stage startup, I helped create the vision and designed the products that help companies identify the right candidates based on their skills. Some of my responsibilities include:
- Leading the team through the entire product design process; from initial strategy and research, to ideation and presentations, to prototyping and final designs.
- Working closely with the CEO and product team members to shape product strategy and vision, delivering industry-leading solutions.
- Collaborating with stakeholders, collecting, synthesizing and incorporating feedback. Communicating design decisions and process.
- Hiring and managing designers and design agencies for specific projects, crafting projects plans, specifications and deadlines.
- Managing ongoing design iteration through continuous research, prototyping, user testing, interaction mapping, pattern definition, and new component delivery
- Developing an innovative and creative products from the grounds up with solid foundations of design best practices including a design system and thinking.
- Designing a new B2B hiring dashboard from the grounds up, including: onboarding, product roadmap, a design system and rebrand.
- Optimizing the usability of the existing P2P Interview platform, including: Smoother onboarding, better user flow, additional features and UI design
- Managed the rebranding of the company, including: writing project specs, sourcing and managing a brand agency, overlooking the work and updating the website, implementing new brand guidelines in all other products and design system.
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Education
- Ux design immersive, User experience designGENERAL ASSEMBLY2014Ux design immersive, User experience design
- MA, Product DesignLondon Metropolitan University2010MA, Product Design