# Bryce Watson > Senior UX Designer at Costco Wholesale Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brycewatson I design and build user-centered, inclusive software ## Work Experience ### UX Designer IV @ Costco IT Jan 2024 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States • Senior UX/UI Designer for Costco Wholesale IT • Run unmoderated user studies to understand our members • Design and prototype features for web and mobile eCommerce in Figma • Contribute to the company design system • Perform frontend development for the design system website ### Product UX Designer @ GitKraken Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 • Create sketches, wireframes, medium and high fidelity mockups, and fully interactive prototypes in Figma • Help plan, coordinate, and run user testing within the company on upcoming features • Analyze and plan analytics to assist in design decisions • Contribute to projects by assisting with full stack development and QA • Remediate accessibility issues across the company • Created and maintain a design system in Figma based on GitKraken Client. Components in Figma are a 1:1 match with their implementation counterparts • Wrote all designer facing documentation for the design system • Primary designer for Launchpad, a cross-platform developer dashboard, across 4 products within the company ### Senior UX Designer @ YOKE Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States • Design Lead for a sports focused crowd fundraising platform. • Created high fidelity mockups using user-centered design that are informed by analytics. • Acted as the technical accessibility consultant to ensure compliance to WCAG 2.1 AA standards and best practices. • Originated and maintained an atomic design system based in Figma. • Was responsible for training design interns, working with stakeholders on design requirements, and leading design strategy ### Full Stack Developer @ AllVoices Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ● In addition to the responsibilities of the Product Design Lead ● Wrote clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code. ● Took ownership of end to end feature development working closely with Product Management and Engineering Leads. ● Supported testing and deployment of new products and features. ● Participated in code reviews. ● Built dynamic, responsive, low latency APIs. ● Worked in a team as well as independently to deliver on Product development schedules and goals. ### Product Design Lead @ AllVoices Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States ● Lead and perform design activities like user research, usability testing, customer journey mapping, wireframing, prototyping, and validating concepts. ● Be autonomous. Own design projects through the entire product life cycle. ● Develop and follow a user centric design process from concept to execution, balancing customer needs alongside business goals and technical capabilities. ● Collaborate with product, engineering, and QA throughout the product development lifecycle to find elegant and practical solutions. ● Be obsessed with our users and empathetic to their needs. ### Product Design Lead @ Functionize Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 • Product Design Lead and sole designer for the Functionize testing automation suite. • Originated and maintained an atomic design system based in Figma. Overhauled core functionality including the test editor and debug experience. • Co-led an international team in conversion of the legacy website in PHP to it’s total replacement in Vue.js. ### UX Designer @ Elavon, Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States • Develop UX documentation such as site outlines, process flows, sketches, scenarios, wireframes, personas, and navigation models for desktop, tablet, and mobile applications to define functionality and user behavior for Converge e-Commerce gateway platform • Create full stack coded prototypes to assist with implementation in a variety of languages and frameworks • Create vector illustrations and motion graphics in collaboration with our digital illustrator • Partner with development teams to ensure technical feasibility and proper implementation for multiple websites across North America and the European Union • Brainstorm and collaborate with business owners, product managers, and other stakeholders to determine user experience needs • Plan, conduct, and report user research findings through unmoderated usability studies ### Junior UX Designer @ Elavon, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Atlanta, Georgia • Develop UX documentation such as site outlines, process flows, sketches, scenarios, wireframes, personas, and navigation models for desktop, tablet, and mobile applications to define functionality and user behavior • Create full stack prototypes to assist with implementation in a variety of languages and frameworks including React, Next, Express, HTML, CSS, and Typescript • Partner with development teams to ensure technical feasibility and proper implementation for multiple websites across North America and the European Union • Brainstorm and collaborate with business owners, product managers, and other stakeholders to determine user experience needs • Plan, conduct, and report user research findings through unmoderated usability studies • Create vector illustrations and motion graphics in collaboration with our full-time digital illustrator • Write and edit technical documents while assisting in the migration of documentation to our current platform ### Primary Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States TA for an online cohort of UX/UI boot camp students at Georgia Tech. Assist with student comprehension and classroom management as a member of the instructional staff. ### Substitute Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Atlanta, Georgia TA for the UX/UI boot camp taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology as part of the Office of Professional Education and Trilogy Education. ### Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Atlanta, Georgia Provided quantitative research on Computer Science Education within the department of Human-Computer Interaction for the College of Computing ### Information Technology Support Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Atlanta, Georgia Assisted with Adobe Creative Cloud Suite and other multimedia programs for the Georgia Tech Library’s computer lab and provided customer service for printing posters off of a plotter ### Resident Advisor @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Atlanta, Georgia Advised students, organized student events, and maintained building safety while living alongside residents in Smith Residence Hall for the Georgia Tech Department of Housing ### Project Management Co-op @ Landis+Gyr Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Worked as a Project Management Intern in R&D. Learned the agile development method and project management tools and techniques ### 7th Grade Prealgebra Instructor @ Breakthrough Atlanta Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Greater Atlanta Area Worked as a mathematics instructor for a 3 month long summer enrichment program at The Lovett School. Taught 2 classes of 20 7th grade students on my own using preexisting curriculum. I also taught a 6th, 7th, and 8th grade astrophysics elective using my own curriculum with the help of a teaching assistant ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) with Honor in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bryce-watson-gatech - Portfolio: https://bryce-watson-design.vercel.app/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/brycewatson JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brycewatson/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31