# Courtney Curtis > Product Designer | UX Strategist | Design Systems Advocate | SaaS apps Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/courtneycurtis Shrinking the Gap Between Design and Development: Product Designer with years of experience bringing design, engineering, and product teams together. Thrives in collaborative environments, leading projects from user research to launch with a focus on user-centered design that utilizes existing patterns and design systems. Excited to leverage my skills in collaboration with a talented and diverse creative team. PORTFOLIO https://courtneycurtis.com EMAIL ccurtis.design@gmail.com UX SKILLS User Flows, User Journey Mapping, Personas, Creative Problem-Solving, User Research & Testing, User Interviews, Affinity diagrams, Card Sorting, Usability Testing, Heuristics Evaluation, Qualitative & Quantitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Competitive Analysis, Sketching, Wireframing, UI SKILLS Sketching, Wireframing, Responsive Design, Prototyping, Design Systems UX ENGINEERING Design Systems, Scrum, Responsive Design, Agile Methodology, HTML, CSS, JS, React, Typescript TOOLS Figma, Miro, Sketch, Balsamiq, Trello, JIRA, Usertesting.com, Optimal Workshop, Maze, Material UI ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ Alexandrite Creative Jan 2023 – Present PERCH HOUSES Sketched, designed, and prototyped a new homepage to better inform users about Perch Houses' unique offerings; the redesign built trust and integrated clear, non-intrusive action items, improving user readiness to proceed. Continuously refined designs based on stakeholder feedback until final approval was obtained on over 30 Atomic components that increased design flexibility and consistency while reducing development time. Ran usability testing with 4 users to evaluate the effectiveness of new designs in optimizing conversion rates, the tests identified remaining pain points and resulted in user flow iterations and additional clarifying microcopy. Conducted comprehensive competitor analysis and designed a guided onboarding process. Testing revealed that the feature caused confusion and did not improve conversions, leading to its strategic removal. This decision increased clarity and streamlined the user experience by eliminating unnecessary friction. ### Product Designer @ I&CO Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States ### Product Designer, Design Systems @ Femmecubator Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 Contributed to the creation of the Femmecubator design system. Responsibilities included designing and documenting accessible form components in Figma. Led a new brand theme using modes, global, semantic, and component tokens, increasing product marketability. ### User Experience Design Consultant @ The Rebel Mama Inc Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada Initiated the implementation of brand partner carousels featuring 3 forms of social proof to cultivate user trust, strategically positioned in high-traffic areas to maximize brand partnership monetization. Set up opened and closed card sorts on Optimal Workshop to inform the restructuring of the taxonomy, 2 main categories were added, allowing the reduction of the largest subcategory from 13 to 7, making content discovery more intuitive and efficient. Restructured and updated button copy in global navigation to add clarity, reduced the button count from 8 to 7, and simplified button styles from 2 to 1, making the brand partner directory more discoverable and amplifying traffic to brand detail pages to support monetization efforts. Deliverables: Full Research Report, 3 Rounds of User Testing, Sketches, Wireframes, and a High Fidelity Prototype. ### Engineering Manager @ Casebook PBC Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States Managed six employees, attended several daily scrums, facilitated weekly 1:1s to ensure career satisfaction, and administered yearly reviews, achieving 100% employee retention and saving onboarding expenses. Assisted in maintaining and documenting Casebook’s Design System, a React component library based on Material UI documented with Storybook. This work ensured design consistency, accessibility, and improved product quality. Partnered with the senior leadership team as a member of the Leadership Council, to increase transparency and communication throughout the organization. Led monthly front-end department meetings with around 10 employees, and encouraged team members to share their knowledge, which generated more communication, increased job satisfaction and code quality, and bolstered the team rapport. ### Senior UX Engineer @ Casebook PBC Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater New York City Area Engineered and shipped features for the Casebook Saas website utilizing GQL, React, and Typescript with 90% test coverage, improving overall test coverage and strengthening product quality. ### Senior UX Engineer @ DigitasLBi North America Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area Introduced a living style guide utilizing available color variables, SVGs, text types, and components, reducing cross-functional communication by 10% and optimizing CSS code. Developed HTML, CSS, and Javascript prototypes 2-6 times a year, to advise on technical feasibility. Collaborated weekly with the user experience team to refine the responsive design and address structural challenges in component layouts. Built a component-based website for Whole Foods Market, led/onboarded several in-house and offshore developers, scoped out sprint work, and collaborated with the client’s tech team for alignment. Broke down sprint work to create smaller component-based tasks for front-end development and QA to ensure deadlines were met. This method also created more consistent, maintainable, and scalable code. Clients: Whole Foods, Comcast, FIS, BlackRock ### User Experience Engineer @ DigitasLBi North America Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | New York, NY Handed off frontend code for both e-commerce and account sites to the client’s in-house development team. Componentized and continuously refactored code into sass partials and component-based js files to make components flexible and globally accessible. Clients: Pitney Bowes, SunRun ### Interface Engineer @ MRY Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | New York, NY ### Associate Interface Engineer @ MRY Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | New York, NY Worked on a range of projects from small independent 1 page sites to large sites with a CMS and a full team of developers. Clients: Neutrogena, Listerine, Coca-Cola, Moleskine, Jägermeister, Change For Kids ### Senior Web Designer @ ADP Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 Designed and created websites using ActionScript 3.0 and XML at a larger volume than Web Designer II, with minimal to no supervision or assistance. Assisted other designers with design and implementation of the dealer website. Acted pro-actively and independently to create a design questionnaire, formulated to generate more input from our clients, so that we may better serve and understand their needs and wants Appointed to lead the design team, delegate tasks, and approve designs on several occasions when the Design Manager and or the Creative Director were out of the office ### Web Designer II @ BZ Results Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Coventry, Rhode Island, United States Worked with 2-3 project managers on 4-6 website projects simultaneously, while maintaining deadlines and producing quality products using ActionScript 2.0, HTML, CSS, and design skills to install Flash websites Assisted co-workers with design and ActionScript problems daily. Improved user interface on automotive dealer websites, by using promotional boxes that created a hierarchy and organized content ### Web Designer I @ BZ Results Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Coventry, Rhode Island, United States Used ActionScript 2.0, HTML, CSS and design skills to install flash websites while collaborating with 1-2 project managers. Created promotional flyers for events as a member of the events committee at BZ Results ### Intern @ (add)ventures Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | Providence, Rhode Island, United States While working as an intern at (add)ventures, I was able to gain valuable insight into how an advertising company operates, while also being able to participate in a few projects. ## Education ### Certificate in User Experience Design Immersive General Assembly ### Bachelors in Computer Graphics & New Media Johnson & Wales University ### Rhode Island School of Design ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/courtneycurtisux - Portfolio: http://www.courtneycurtis.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/courtneycurtis JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/courtneycurtis/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31