# Janet Blake

> Product Designer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/janetblake

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ Cisco Meraki
Jan 2022 – Present

### Senior Product Designer @ Cisco Meraki
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Senior User Experience Designer & Researcher @ Sliced Bread Design
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Defined user flows and created interface mockups based on research insights.

Wrote screeners and discussion guides, conducted qualitative needfinding interviews, moderated usability studies.

Synthesized needfinding research insights into actionable roadmaps and led brainstorming workshop sessions.

Redesigned the agency’s deliverable templates.

Modernized video & audio equipment setups and trained the team in their use.

### Senior User Experience Designer, Client and Advisor @ Charles Schwab
Jan 2011 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco
Led UX activities from project definition to launch of business-critical features like money movement, account opening, and advisor account servicing across multiple platforms.

Integrated business requirements and user feedback into product updates. 

Reviewed the work of new designers on the team and external agencies.

Projects range from adaptive and responsive websites to iPhone, iPad and Android apps.

### Senior User Experience Designer, Internal Applications @ Charles Schwab
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco
Integrated features into a unified experience via a complete UX lifecycle of activities: from task analysis and user interviews to specs and design QA.

Articulated ideas persuasively to business owners and tech teams. 

Spearheaded the first visual and interaction guidelines for the platform.

### Freelance User Experience Designer @ Freelance
Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 | San Francisco Bay Area
Selected clients: Yahoo!, Harcourt, CompuMentor, Mercado, Novo, Laudus

Focused the experience of the Yahoo News front page and news article templates. 

Provided services for feature prioritization, content strategies, interaction design specifications, and usability prototypes and scripts. 

Quickly revamped the visual design system for Harcourt's assessment and reporting site.

### User Experience Lead @ Classroom Connect
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led team activities to develop realistic and appropriate design requirements for Connected Tech, an online K-8 program that teaches students software skills within the context of the core curriculum. 

Convinced executive sponsors to remove complex features that did not address our primary persona's needs, and met aggressive, state-mandated launch dates.

### Senior Information Architect @ Hot Studio
Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 | San Francisco
Created long-term strategies for content-rich sites and complex web applications. 

Transformed user and business requirements into detailed wireframes with all client-side interactions, page flows and error conditions, and functional documentation.

### Information Architect @ Rare Medium
Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 | San Francisco
Developed information architecture and specs for sites about beauty e-commerce, news, and products for disabled people, mp3 communities, and streaming media.

### Design Technologist @ Rare Medium
Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 | San Francisco
Responsible for client-side programming including complex DHTML, JavaScript, ASP and graphic production.


## Education
### Digital Media Arts Program
Michigan State University

### BA in Economics - High Honors
Michigan State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/janetblake
- Portfolio: https://janetblake.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13