# Melanie Paret Brown > UX Design + Research Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/melanieparetbrown I'm an experience designer with a background in education and the performing arts. I currently work for a global, on-demand manufacturing company redesigning the way large organizations build hardware products. I’m a well-rounded designer with experience leading the end to end design process in a fast paced, start-up environment. My recent work has focused on large, complex design initiatives that touch multiple systems, personas and business goals. Portfolio in the works: www.bymelaniebrown.com ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Fictiv Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Working on changing the digital manufacturing world. Currently researching and designing enterprise solutions for teams that build hardware products. I collaborate with internal stakeholders, engineers and PMs on a daily basis to inform our product roadmap and ship new features. ### UX Designer @ Originate Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Establish design research best practices for a growing software agency. Work closely with engineers and product managers in an agile environment to ensure final products meet user, business and technical needs. Touch end to end digital experiences, from qualitative and quantitative research to user flows, wireframes, prototyping and high fidelity designs. Highlights from client and internal work included the following: AI LABS - Qualitative research engagement to understand the needs of current and potential clients of financial advisors. Led the research program remotely and helped develop a product vision focusing on facilitating communication and engagement between FA’s and their clients. REPAIR CLINIC - Assisted in the completion of a multi-phase digital transformation effort centered around the overhaul and redesign of the RepairClinic online mobile, tablet and desktop experience. Worked with our product team to deliver the new architecture and front end design of the site. ORIGINATE TOOLKIT - Worked with the product and design team to create a living process playbook to establish internal best practices in design research, information architecture, interaction and visual design. Led the delivery for all UX focused design materials. ### UX Designer and Consultant @ Blumio Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Helped Blumio create a mobile app interface concept that allowed patients to track real time data of their blood pressure readings. Blumio was part of the Highway One accelerator program and is the first wearable device to collect BP readings continuously through radar. I was one of two UX Designers working directly with our client which consisted of their CEO, Project Manager and CTO. My responsibilities included stakeholder interviews, user interviews & synthesis, hosting participatory design workshops, concept ideation and feature prioritization, usability testing, prototyping and low fidelity wireframes. Our concept was presented at Demo Day for the Highway One Accelerator Program. ### UX Design Student @ General Assembly Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Completed a full time program in UX Design focusing on best practices in user research, design strategy and rapid prototyping. Worked both individually and collaboratively on 4 projects to address real world problems. Applied skills: user interviews, synthesis through affinity/journey mapping, stakeholder management, systems thinking, IA, user flow, sketching, hi/low fidelity wireframing and prototyping, interaction design, storytelling, visual design/branding ### Admissions Producer @ General Assembly Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Reached over 100% of admissions goal quarterly - Managed the on-boarding process for students in our full time career change programs - Designed programming initiatives to increase student conversions - Organized General Assembly’s Health and Wellness Committee on campus ### Development Associate @ AscenDance (www.ascendanceproject.com) Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Boulder, Colorado ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Dance/Arts Administration Butler University ### Washington Lee High School ### General Assembly ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/melanieparet --- Source: https://flows.cv/melanieparetbrown JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/melanieparetbrown/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13