# Emily Houser > UX Designer | Educator | Creator of Digital Experiences Location: Kansas City, Missouri, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/emilyhouser I’m a UX Designer with startup and enterprise-level experience and a talent for building the plane while it’s already in the air. I enjoy creating and revamping design systems, as well as designing wireframes and hi-fidelity prototypes for both external and internal-facing desktop and mobile products. I lean on my coding background to keep developer empathy at the forefront of my design decisions, using Figma to bring designs to life for easy translation to code. I also have experience training other designers in Figma best practices and use. I love going down a rabbit hole about user experience design best practices and am always eager to have a kind and open conversation about design decisions. ## Work Experience ### Product Designer 2 @ Garmin Jan 2024 – Present ### UX Designer @ H&R Block Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Organized H&R Block's large, intricate design system to be more consistent and usable. Worked with both the Digital Drop Off team and MyBlock team on creating and sprucing up digital experiences in their products for both desktop and mobile. Updated existing design system components to reflect the modern, simplified needs of today’s products and ensure consistency across Figma designs. Spearheaded a multi-team effort to establish enterprise-wide best practices and unify principles and guidelines in order to promote more consistent design work across the product suite. ### UX Designer @ Lumifi Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | remote Designed themes and visuals for a new cyber security mobile and desktop application, including customized components such as charts, graphs, and tables, and developed high fidelity wireframes to gain layout consensus. Consulted with the development team, product managers, and additional stakeholders to design Lumifi’s first SaaS product. Worked hand-in-hand with the development team to ensure that designs could be turned into code using frameworks such as Tailwinds UI and Material UI. ### UX Designer @ CloudSaver Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Kansas City Metropolitan Area Modernized the product team by promoting Figma as a primary design tool and providing education on its use. Built foundational design system components based on existing design patterns and style guide. Made strategic and tactical UX decisions related to design and usability as well as features and functions. Developed documentation and design style guides in an Agile work environment to empower software engineers and others to operate independently while maintaining a consistent look and feel across the product suite. ### UX Designer @ Hyphen, LLC Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Kansas City Metropolitan Area Completed top quality UX/UI deliverables on time for both mobile and desktop applications that demonstrated clear expertise in overall user experience and design. Worked alongside a cross-functional team to design user experiences by translating product requirements into engaging design concepts and interactive prototypes. Led the implementation of a design system and color theme to be implemented and used by multiple products within the SaaS suite. Ensured consistent user experiences across a suite of products by creating a design framework and shared documentation system for designers, developers, and managers. ### Product Owner @ Berkshire Risk Services Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Remote Effectively utilized a short-term contract to accomplish primary business goals that will serve the company moving forward. Applied UX and design-thinking concepts to products and services that will be used by non-technical internal and external users. Lead ideation processes for both new features and redesigns. Generated and documented detailed requirements, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria for product and process enhancements. Leveraged usability engineering methods to establish user requirements, test design solutions, and evaluate product implementation. Established brand and design libraries in Figma to ensure uniform and consistent designs across the business. Used Miro to ideate, track feature roll-outs, and map user flows with the development team. ### UI/UX Designer and Developer @ reThought Insurance Corporation Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Remote Lead developers and underwriters to reach collaborative user and business goals for reThought's first outward-facing product. Spearheaded reThought’s first external and internal user research campaign and incorporated the findings into outward-facing product designs ranging from small features to complex experiences. Presented design work and user data to the underwriting, development, and executive teams for review and feedback before I turned those designs into functional React code. Consistently designed for developers using both frontend coding knowledge and developer empathy. Handled relations and task-management between external users and technical requirements team, including managing JIRA tickets and leading meetings. Collaborated with developers on software testing to find bugs and improvement areas, as well as designed fixes for those issues. Functioned as a liaison between the underwriting team and the development team to communicate pain points and help shape software to meet specific user experience needs. ### Student @ Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 The online Bachelor of Science in graphic information technology provides students with a creative, technological, and managerial understanding of graphic information and content creation. The program lives at the intersections of creativity, visual design and technology, preparing students to create visual content for multi-channel distribution – print, web, photo, video, animation. ### Elementary School Teacher @ Summit View Elementary School Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Highlands Ranch, CO Designed lesson plans aligned to state standards while also ensuring accessibility to all student's learning styles, and reading levels in an engaging, effective and supportive environment. Integrated technology each day through our one-to-one Chromebook initiative that honed in on skills necessary for success in the next generation of technology. Responsible for communicating with parents, and administration about classroom updates via weekly emails and class events. Utilized formative and summative assessment data to drive quarterly and daily instruction. Created assessments based on benchmark standards set by the state and district. ### Contract Substitute Teacher @ Douglas County School District Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Highlands Ranch, CO - Created an engaging learning environment with lessons that successfully presented state-required material. - Adapted smoothly to a variety of subjects, grade levels, and teaching styles to present information effectively. - Worked with learners of all ages and of differing abilities. - Quickly identified student needs and picked up material to ensure uninterrupted learning processes. - Was ultimately hired as a full-time educator at Summit View Elementary after subbing there. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Graphic Information Technology Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Elementary Education and Teaching Emporia State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/emily-houser-designs - Portfolio: https://www.ekhouserdesigns.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/emilyhouser JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/emilyhouser/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31