# Cat Curran > Designing Intuitive Solutions Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/catcurran With over 9 years of UX design experience, I have created engaging, easy-to-use, and effective design solutions for various domains and platforms, including mobile and web applications. My core competencies include user interface design, user research, prototyping, testing, and design system development. Most recently, I was the lead UX designer at Shiftboard, where I designed mobile and web applications that help thousands of organizations manage their workforce scheduling and optimize their labor costs. I collaborated closely with product management and engineering teams to conduct research, prototype, test, and iterate on design concepts and solutions. I also grew and evolved the design system of patterns, components, and styles across web and mobile. My passion is to design experiences that enhance people's everyday lives and products that deliver to users' needs. ## Work Experience ### Sr. Staff Interaction Designer @ Stryker Jan 2025 – Present | San Jose, California, United States ### Sr. UX Designer @ Shiftboard Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington - Lead designer for ScheduleFlex Responsive web, iOS, and Android apps - Lead designer for SchedulePro web, iOS, and Android apps - Solved complex design problems in simple and intuitive ways that span web and mobile apps - Worked closely with product management to do research, meeting with customers and internal resources to understand the needs of our users to inform product direction and user experiences - Grew and evolved the design system of patterns, components, and styles across web and mobile - Collaborated with product management and engineering to deliver practical and effective solutions - Lead the user experience design and prototyping through the full design and development cycle (including concepts, information architecture, visual design, and interaction design) ### Sr. UX Designer @ GoDaddy Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Kirkland, Washington - Conceptual development and the execution of UX deliverables. Creating and communicating concepts, implementing strategies, and developing interactive design solutions. - Responsible for communication and negotiation of critical path and scope with team members - Partnered with team leads to ensure shared understanding - Assisted team in thinking strategically when identifying project deliverables in support of project goals and business goals when determining overall design strategy - Lead a project or group of projects with limited input - Continually explored opportunities to enhance, improve, and expand methodologies and deliverables ### Sr. Interaction Designer @ Luidia Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Belmont, CA - Worked with team to take responsibility for all parts of the design, eg driving the design vision, design process and decision making - Championing and driving high quality user experience and visual design - Created engaging, easy-to-use design solutions that address complex business and user needs - Defined interaction models, user task flows, and UI specifications. Communicated scenarios, end-to-end experiences, interaction models, and screen designs to stakeholders - Produced design artifacts at the appropriate level of fidelity such as sketches, wireframes, interaction flows, prototypes, and visual design mock ups as needed to support productive cross-functional exploration, prioritization and usability assessments - Worked closely with Engineering and QA teams through development and implementation cycles in an Agile environment - Participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary team - Mentored and managed junior designer - Improved workflow efficiency to ensure timely delivery of projects that are driven by user research and quantitative metrics ### Interaction Designer @ Luidia Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Belmont, CA - Prepared user interface specification documents consisting of mock-ups, process flows, wireframes and interaction flow diagrams - Researched, developed and defined the interaction side of eBeam software offerings across multiple markets and varying user types - Collaborated with visual designers, product managers, and software engineering as a team to develop the product requirements, applications and releases - Tested various user interaction attributes and features across multiple applications - Wrote detailed specifications for use in development and QA - Conducted usability testing to foster design decisions and determine user experience - Worked closely with product marketing during alpha and beta phases of product releases in order to make final changes and refinements to the shipping products ### Freelance UI Designer @ Multiple Projects Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 CLIENTS: MadMen Apps, Auctiva - Redesigned or designed for a number of mobile applications - Developed workflows, interaction flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and navigational flows - Developed visual design and assets ### Visual Designer @ NearbyNow Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 - Lead designer for re-launch of Brides iPhone application, “BRIDES Wedding Genius,” and the initial launch of REDBOOK magazine’s iPhone application, “One Stop Shop” - Developed workflows, interaction flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and navigational flows for iPhone and iPad applications - Interpreted project scope requirements into effective UI design - Collaborated with engineers to specify how the product should behave, appear and function - Created specification documents for application assets - Designed visual assets for mobile applications - Designed iAds for application download ### Freelance Graphic Designer @ Multiple Projects Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 CLIENTS INCLUDE: Draftfcb, Clark Pest Control, Wedgewood Consulting Group, Edison Charter Academy and Integrity Consulting Services - Designed marketing collateral, information graphics, logos, Flash websites, flyers and invitations ## Education ### MA in Industrial Arts San Francisco State University ### BA in Cultural Anthropology, Art History UC Santa Barbara ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/catcurran - Portfolio: http://catcurran.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/catcurran JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/catcurran/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13