# Chris Peloquin > Founder | Product Designer Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/chrispeloquin As an accomplished product designer, I help small to medium-sized businesses make smarter product decisions, fast. Here's my skillset: • Lean Research techniques to gather quick, actionable insights directly from your customers. • Expertise in visual design, prototyping, and user interface design, ensuring your product is both functional and engaging. • Alignment of product decisions with user needs and business goals. • Delivery of meaningful results that drive growth, without lengthy or costly processes. Let's collaborate to turn your product vision into intuitive, valuable experiences that resonate with users and drive results. ## Work Experience ### Founder / Product Designer @ Pelican Product Design Jan 2024 – Present I founded Pelican Product Design to help traditionally underrepresented entrepreneurs—women, people of color, and those aged 50+—bring their tech-related product ideas to life. Many of our clients are aspiring entrepreneurs who need a structured, efficient way to validate their ideas before investing significant time and resources. Through a step-by-step design process, we help them refine their concepts, prototype, and user-test their products to determine real market demand. My goal is to empower these innovators with the insights and proof of concept they need to confidently take the next step in their entrepreneurial journey. ### Head of Product Design @ Issuer Direct Corporation Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States Lead a small team of designers; and planning, concepting, and designing innovative public relations and investor relations products. Lead the design strategy, vision and detailed product design of a corporate communications solution with a total addressable market annually of over $5 billion. ### Head of Product Design @ Newswire Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States (NOTE: Newswire was acquired by Issuer Direct) Lead product design and user experience strategy for a suite of media relations and investor relations products that enable customers to connect with their targeted audiences using engagement analytics and A.I. technologies to provide unique, data-driven feedback. Recently lead the design of a cutting-edge A.I. writing assistant and recommendation engine for marketers, copywriters and creators. ### Head of Product Design @ Localist Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 Led the design vision and strategy for the Localist platform, a community events management and marketing solution. Owned the design cycle from beginning to end, and partnered with Heads of Product, Engineering, Marketing and Sales to develop and execute a customer-focused, strategic research-based product design to millions of users. ### Senior Product Designer @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States Designed new-to-market business intelligence/customer analytics product at Microsoft Dynamics 365. Created personalized interactive dashboards and data visualizations. Defined and designed the onboarding experience for engaging and acquiring new customers. Ensured accessibility and inclusivity best practices were an essential component in all designs. ### Senior User Experience Designer/Researcher @ Cengage Learning Jan 2011 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, WA and San Francisco Bay Area • Led the design of higher education technology products with upwards of 20 million users in 165 countries. • Implemented and trained others in best practices for user-centered design methods, incorporating business strategy and analytic tools to measure the effectiveness of design. • Led a brand reorientation resulting an initial $10.2 annual additional net revenue. • Led the UX design and strategy to modernize the registration and identity management of all users across multiple products and platforms, improving privacy, security and efficiency. • Managed a small team of designers and worked closely with engineers on cross-functional teams. ### User Experience Designer @ Nokia Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 • Designed interfaces for Nokia’s Ovi Suite of apps (calendar, contacts and mail) for mobile and web. • Designed and conducted a variety of user research studies, analyzed results and produced data driven insights. • Created interactive prototypes, wires and visual design specs. ### User Experience Program Manager @ Microsoft Corporation Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 • Defined the end-to-end experience for 2 generations of TMobile Sidekick mobile device. • Lead Design and Strategy for Danger’s Facebook for Sidekick application. ### User Experience Designer/Researcher @ Danger, Inc. Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 • Designed user experience for multiple applications for Danger Hiptop®/TMobile Sidekick® Platform. • Managed 2 visual designers. ### Info Architect/Technical Writer @ Nimblefish Technologies Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 ### UI Designer/UI Developer @ CIBER Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 ### Application Developer/Product Manager @ Document Solutions, Inc. Jan 1998 – Jan 2004 Designed and Engineered interactive CDs and DVDs, and web applications. Managed large volume digital publishing projects from ideation to launch. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in in Human Centered Design and Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in American Studies Wesleyan University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chrispeloquinux --- Source: https://flows.cv/chrispeloquin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/chrispeloquin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30