Designing small-business banking at Nav

Design Leadership: Lead the end-to-end design process for the app and workout recorder, from research and wireframing to high-fidelity design and usability testing.

Design System Development: Build and maintain a scalable design system using design tokens, Style Dictionary, and Tokens Studio in Figma.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product, engineering, and marketing teams to align design goals with business objectives.

Prototyping & Development: Utilize code to create interactive prototypes and contribute to production code, ensuring design intent is fully realized.

Worked on a number of different things including front end development, design systems, and bringing ideas to market. Having a good understanding in both design and development also gave me the opportunity to speak at conferences and meetups, on topics ranging from design, prototyping, and embracing code as a design tool.

• Lead the work for design systems serving SYSTM Training Program & Workout App. Developed internal tools (Figma plugins) and processes to increase team productivity. Working pragmatically with stakeholders to bring the product to market in September 2021.

• Empowering, mentoring and developing other team members.

• Produce design wireframes and coding interactive prototypes for Wahoo Fitness apps on all platforms. The user experience work contributes to the success of Wahoo products. The Wahoo KICKR BIKE was regarded as the “biggest product launch” of Eurobike 2019, highly anticipated and reviewed by major cycling publications.

• Lead and iterate on an internal design system, assist in the product onboarding for Wahoo Fitness Apps. Worked closely with developers to ensure high standard software releases. The redesign was well received and instrumental for improving App Store ratings from 2.3 to 4.8 stars.

Exercised in design, development and advocate for great user experience for Koordinates - Geospatial data publishing platform.

• Lead the inception of a design system and a platform-wide style guide.

• Assist in the redesign of the entire web application, directly contributing to the securement of large government contracts for using Koordinates as the official data publishing platform.

• Design and develop the Koordinates marketing website.

Assist in designing, prototyping and user testing for Vend - Cloud based Point of Sales.

• Lead frequent user testing sessions with customers for product feedback.

• Produce wireframes and prototype ideas for future features.

• Worked closely with development team to ensure high quality releases.

Design and documentation of various projects.

Holiday Internship

Worked voluntarily during my holiday in Taiwan. Gaining office experience was invaluable to me as I assisted the team with interior design and 3D architecture renders.