# Alanna Fein

> Product Design, AI @ PayPal

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alannafein

thecreativechicken.com

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ PayPal
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States
Consumer App

### Staff Product Designer | Visa Innovation Studio @ Visa
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
Lead design engagements for North America clients, delivering B2B2C mobile and web payment experiences that drive growth and customer loyalty.

### Senior Interaction Designer @ Code and Theory
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area
Clients including:
PGIM • Chase Private Client • Spotify • Amazon • Party City • Xerox • The Commonwealth Fund

### Senior Product Designer @ 360i
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
Clients including:
MINI Cooper • Nespresso • Performance Health • Canon • Plated

### Senior Product Designer @ LifeBEAM
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
Vi is an AI personal trainer who lives in biosensing earphones. She finds your ideal path to fitness and coaches you in real time. 

-Senior Product Designer for Vi-iOS/Android/Voice interaction/Web-native experiences
-Redesigning native app for a better user experience. Wireframing - low to high fidelity
prototypes and adding features such as treadmill, accountability, notifications, mindfulness, etc. 
-Designing within data, user testing, and case studies
-Creating the right persona and making sure the user needs are met 
-Provided IXD/UI specs and worked closely with engineers to implement new designs

### Senior Product Designer @ AOL
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
-  Lead UI/UX product designer for AOL - iOS / Android / Web native experiences.
-  Participated in extensive user researching with continuous iteration on UX
    solutions. Identifying issues with user feedback and performed iterations.
-  Coordinated with several internal teams across AOL to define AOL
universal style guide and requirements for desktop, mobile, iOS, and Android.
-  Provided IXD/UI specs and worked closely with engineer to implement new designs
-  Naming, branding, Logo design and marketing

### UX Designer @ RAPP
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area
Designer for client: HPE 
-Wire-framing website
-Sketching wireframes for Mobile / Tablet / Desktop 
-Concept mapping 
-Sketching Wireframes by hand and on desktop 
-Problem Solving interface

### Designer @ Eyesave.com & Gabriel + Simone
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Dumbo Brooklyn
-Manage websites with HTML, CSS and Java Script
-Email Blasts 
-Brand Identity
-Redesigning the main homepage each week
-Photographer 
-Photo Editing / airbrushing

### Designer @ WikiReviews Inc
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area
Wikireviews is a community collaborative review site that provides the ability to review anything and everything. 

As a Product and UX designer, I researched competitors, organized data, wireframed and made app maps, designed prototype, worked with a developer and worked with a beta.

### Graphic Designer @ Ovation In-Store
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
At Ovation I designed prototypes, that went into actual in-store displays for renown brands. I created graphics and renderings using adobe creative suite programs. I worked heavily on a Victoria Secret in-store make-up display. Coming up with ways to help organize there product as well as visual design display.

### Visual Design and Merchandising @ Anthropologie
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Towson MD
- Led the design direction of window display
- Organized and display layouts as well as inspiration imagery 
- Created and tested prototypes and discussed inspirational concepts

### Intern @ Alexander Wang Inc.
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | NYC
Organized product / accessories for runway shows.


## Education
### AI Design
Pratt Institute
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024

### UXDI - User Experience / User Interface Design
General Assembly

### Art and Design in Graphic Design
Towson University

### Study Abroad in Graphic Design
UNSW


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alannafein
- Portfolio: http://www.thecreativechicken.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-30