www.connorlarsen.com
connorlarsen@gmail.com
I'm a product designer with a focus on design systems, though have experience in user experience and user interface design as well.
I find myself naturally taking a leadership role and enjoy mentoring others.
Designed, built, customized, and managed a multi-product design system within Figma, enabling all Science products to leverage a shared set of components
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Wrote, built, and managed design system documentation on Zeroheight, providing a go-to resource for both designers and engineers to reference when working with the design system and its elements
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Worked cross functionally with engineers and product designers to incorporate additional elements into the design system, ensure consistency between design tools and the codebase, and streamline team tools and processes
Streamlined UX for common user tasks within the product dashboard, significantly reducing the amount of hands-on time required by the support team to remedy customer issues
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Designed a form builder tool, allowing customers to create fully secure forms and customize them to align with their product’s UIs
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Interviewed VGS customers to better understand their needs, thereby uncovering new product opportunities as well as insights for improving the design of current offerings
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Organized, managed, and contributed to company-wide design system, working toward aligning multiple product areas under one consistent look and feel
Streamlined agency-wide digital processes and implemented brand-level design systems, contributing to digital business growth (+25-30% profit) over 2 years
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Design lead for all digital tactics supporting a major product launch for agency’s largest client ($2M+ account); projects included three websites, two iPad sales apps, and an email campaign
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Led creation of an agency-wide design system template, resulting in a reduction of design and engineering lead time for the agency’s most common digital projects
Led page redesign project, reducing bounce rate (-40%) and increasing time spent on site (+36%); as a result, our client awarded the agency the remainder of its digital business
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Brought on as the first UX/UI designer at the agency and through showing the value of the UX/UI role, pushed the department to grow to eight designers in less than two years
