# Melissa Samworth

> Founder at Sacred – Digital design studio

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/melissasamworth

Founder of Sacred, a results-driven digital design studio – We provide product design, web development,  graphic design, and branding services for high impact non-profits and early-stage startups

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10 years of industry experience, including:

Product design, UI/UX – i.e. design for web apps and mobile apps

Research
 – User research
 – Usability testing
 – Competitive analysis
 – Usage data analysis
Design sprints
Product management, Product strategy
 – Feature ideation
 – Feature prioritization
Information architecture
 – User flows
 – Site maps
 – Wireframes
UI and visual design
 – Mockups
 – Design systems
 – Typography
 – Grid systems
 – Layouts
 – Responsive design
 – Iconography
 – Illustration
Code
 – GitHub
 – HTML/CSS
 
Marketing design

Website design
 – Layout
 – Typography
 – Grid systems
 – Iconography
 – Illustration
 – Responsive design
 – Content strategy
 – Competitive analysis
 – User research
 – Usage data analysis, A/B testing
Website development
 – Webflow
 – HTML/CSS
Branding
 – Logo design
 – Brand identity design
 – Brand guidelines
 – Graphic design: branded assets for digital and print
 – Brand strategy

## Work Experience
### Product Manager, Designer @ AIsafety.info, AIsafety.com
Jan 2023 – Present

### Founder @ Sacred
Jan 2023 – Present
Digital design studio specializing in product design, website development, and branding

### Product Designer @ Global Food Partners
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Product Designer @ Ought
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
• Collaborated closely with product manager and front-end engineer to rapidly scope, ideate on, push, and assess the success of, exploratory features
• Conducted weekly (even daily) user research, dogfooding, and competitive research
• Developed an understanding in two new (and niche) domains: (1) the product user base–academic researchers, and (2) GPT-3, the technology that powers Elicit’s artificial intelligence
• Developed and maintained design system, coded from Google’s MUI design system framework

### Product Designer @ Camelot Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
• Worked closely with the founder to formulate and implement a standard Product Design process from ground 0 to a full-fledged, developed MVP! Warranted user research, feature ideation & prioritization, information architecture, UI, mockups, and usability testing
• Created a design system and 100+ mockups
• Design and strategy for marketing assets, including landing pages, pitch decks, and executive summaries
• Worked closely with a front end and back end developer to communicate the vision and get things perfect

### Product Designer @ Volunteer Forever
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Remote
• Projects included Volunteer Forever–online resource providing content for all things volunteer-travel-related–and it’s sister site Abroadly–a double-sided “marketplace” in which prospective volunteers search through, research, and apply to projects
• Created a brand strategy, and synthesized a responsive design system for web (both back-end UI components and consumer-facing visual components) based on this strategy
• Crafted landing pages and marketing pages based on market-research informed content-strategy, as well as aforementioned brand strategy
• Crafted and refined user flows, content maps (i.e. site maps), and wireframes for web apps
• Refined a communication and implementation process between a development team in India and myself, to ensure my vision was implemented correctly, and to do it as efficiently as possible
• Considered business goals, engineering limits, usability, aesthetics, up-to-date best practices, feedback from user interviews, and brand strategy in every step of each project

### Product Designer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Interviewed users to understand pain points in specific workflows
• Ideated solutions with fellow designers and product managers
• Created lo-fi wireframes and basic prototypes to compare and contrast solutions with fellow designers and product managers
• Created final visual mockups based on Blueprint, Palantir's design system

### Product Experience Intern @ Jawbone
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Lead Designer on project UP Developer Platform Redo
• Leveraged incite from user research and competitive audit to thoroughly understand the product and how it is used by developers
• Refined and perfected user flow and wireframes based on user feedback (usability) and feedback from fellow engineering employees (feasibility)
• Created a visually professional-looking design based on feedback from the target audience, and with the pursuit of elegantly reflecting Jawbone’s brand

### Web Design Intern @ Agoranet
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Newark, Delaware
• Visually re-skinned client websites; developed designs using HTML/CSS
• Created graphic, illustration, and animation assets for client websites and mobile apps


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in New Media Design
Rochester Institute of Technology
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/melissasamworth
- Portfolio: http://www.melissasamworth.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-30