# Anckia Treurnicht

> Senior Product Designer

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/anckia

I’m a UX/UI designer, with an affinity for creating design solutions that are aesthetically pleasing and enhances the users' experience. I do this through empathy, good communication techniques and my ability to work well with all personality types. 

My experiences with living on three different continents and having to constantly adapt to new cultures and environments, made me very empathetic towards other peoples needs. It made me realize the beauty and learning potential in our differences. This empathy and adaptability makes me an asset in team settings, where collaboration is valued. 

With a background in biological research, I contribute persistence and curiosity to my problem-solving approaches. In this case, my tendency to overthink everything, actually benefits me in the UX field, since I approach ideas and problems from all angles and really try to find the best solution to benefit all parties needs, both the clients and the users' respectively.
 
During my design travels, I’ve created a range of design deliverables from personal brand designs to a full design suite for a corporate brand. As well as UX-projects from concept, research to interactive prototypes. I’m well-versed in all aspects of the design process, including user research, developing user personas, planning and wire-framing design concepts, creating client-ready design mock-ups and application prototypes. I’m proficient with Sketch, InVision, and Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and Ud, and am constantly learning new tools.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ LeanTaaS
Jan 2025 – Present | Oakley, California, United States

### Senior Product Designer @ Grace
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Remote

### Associate director of clinical design @ Cerebral
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | United States

### Associate director of operational design @ Cerebral
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

### Product Designer @ Cerebral
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product Operations Manager @ Cerebral
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product Designer @ Cerebral (Stealth Start-up)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Freelance - UX/UI Designer @ Step Mobile
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | San Mateo
I'm responsible for increasing conversions rates by creating engaging visual content for social media advertisements.

### Freelance UX/UI Designer @ ResolveQ/ The Online Compliance Panel
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Santa Clara
ResolveQ is a startup, focusing on creating an information sharing platform for professionals. I was responsible for fir designing their webinar flow  (addition and viewing) screens from conception to hi-fi mockup.

### UX Designer @ Leap2Genius
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Leap2genius provides individuals and teams with the techniques and assets to leverage the unique talents of every person within their organization. This enables teams reaching their unique genius and increasing overall productivity.

As one of the User-Experience Designers on the team, my role included all processes from Research, Ideation, Mock-up production, annotated wireframes to Prototype production, as well as usability testing and client communications.

End results were well received by the client and are being implemented for development.

### User Experience design Apprentice @ General Assembly
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
User Experience Design Immersive | UX Design Apprentice / Fellow
General Assembly’s User Experience Design Immersive (UXDI) is a 10-week long full-time training program dedicated to preparing students to think like designers and approach problems creatively in order to design the next generation of mobile, web applications and digital products.

### Skillcrush Visual Design Apprentice @ Skillcrush
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Responsible for creating a range of design deliverables from personal brand designs to a full design suite for a corporate brand, including color scheme, typography, social headers and custom iconography.

### Lab manager @ Stanford University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, California
I was responsible for assuring that all lab processes ran smoothly and efficiently, with regards to time management, inventory and equipment maintenance. Contributed to the experimentation of novel trend biomarkers for identifying Type 1 Diabetes. The project lead to the ability to characterize novel diabetes biomarkers faster than traditional methods and is in the last phases before publication.


## Education
### User Experience
General Assembly

### Design and Visual Communications in General
Skillcrush

### Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons) in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Stellenbosch University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Microbiology, General
Stellenbosch University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anckia-treurnicht
- Portfolio: https://www.anckia.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13