# Monica Girel > Senior Designer @ Adobe | User Experience | Product Designer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/monicagirel Innovative professional with 15+ years of experience in UX, interaction, and visual design. Creates intuitive, delightful experiences for complex enterprise SaaS, AI/ML-powered tech, and financial services. Applies design thinking, research-based decision making, curiosity, meticulous attention to detail, and works strategically and collaboratively to deliver successful new products and features Specialties: • Strong interpersonal & written communication • Product strategy • UX research: plan, design, conduct customer interviews, report • Designing for AI/ML • Prototyping • Agile / Scrum • Mentoring • Works well under tight deadlines • Established in working with remote, distributed, international teams ## Work Experience ### Senior Designer @ Adobe Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Senior Designer, Experience Cloud ### Senior UX Product Designer @ Anaplan Jan 2016 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, CA • Lead designer for platform ML/AI capabilities • Lead design for workflow execution feature enabling end-users to easily engage with the platform via a guided task experience and notification system • Designer for platform features such as navigation, search, data discovery, and more. ### Senior Visual Designer, Experience Design @ Intuit Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 Designed QuickBooks Online • Lead designer on Customer Center – where users manage all their customers and sales transactions • Redesigned to include a directory view allowing users to easily navigate from customer to customer, add notes, and designed tiles to display more relevant information to users • Lead designer for Migration initiative: created a timed communication experience to migrate users to the new QBO • Collaborated with engineers to solve for maintaining experience continuity through a browser upgrade required during migration when cookies could not be stored • Designed guides to help both new users and migrating users with the new product • Worked with localization department on every project to facilitate translation of designs and screenshots • Actively engaged with user testing by serving as the interviewer during customer sessions and participating in customer empathy program including taking accounting 101 class ### Visual Designer, User Experience @ Deem, Inc. Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 • Lead visual designer on travel search redesign: reconceived and designed new travel search experience including simple search, one-click itinerary, flight, hotel and car rental results, and check out and purchase flows • Worked on user experience flows for mobile ground and car service application • Designed facebook connect and sign on system for offers platform • Conceptualized and designed out-of-box experience (OOBE) for new storyboard feature, a web application that brings social to travel and enables business colleagues to plan travel together • Created prototypes for user testing and assisted in test development • Developed user flows demonstrating cross-pollination strategies between different applications within the Rearden platform • Designed expense application filtering UI • Delivered thorough and accurate specification documents to engineering for product development ### Designer @ HP Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 • Lead visual designer on travel project consisting of custom travel guide book, Web site UI, iPhone app., destination-themed photo book, and print-at-home custom travel guide • Collaborated with a team of developers engaging in agile software development • Designed Frommer's Remix for development feasibility and scalability to mass audiences with a design that works for 40+ destinations • Initial design of iPhone travel app: defined user flows, brainstormed functionality, and designed UI; app to work conjointly with guide book • Designed stunning destination-themed Italy photo book prototype, showcased by HP VP Vyomeshi Joshi • Worked with developers to convert designs to templates for use as photo book backgrounds for any destination • Designed Frommer's Remix Web UI. Tasks included: designing site landing page, collaborating to solve challenging User Interface problems, writing all copy and messaging • Wrote and executed HP Beta tester e-mail marketing campaign • Design of HP ePrintCenter application for print-at-home custom guide book: designed final printed output as well as setup UI on traditional web and printer screen • Thoroughly and accurately designed specification docs to guide engineers in development • Worked on WallArt Project, designed wall paper themes using licensed content from DreamWorks and Warner Brothers, including Looney Tunes, Puss In Boots, Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon • Worked on WalMart graduation themed collateral (poster, cards, etc...) and prepared files for launch into store kiosk system • Designed MySchoolOasis.com home and landing pages, part of Digital Oasis pilot program in schools • Conceived new ideas for printer applications and designed prototypes of customer-facing output including TV Guide, Gardening, Highlights Magazine, and Safeway newsletter • Increased designer and manager productivity by creating and implementing a project management and tracking system for all R&D design projects ### Graphic Designer @ TrellisWare Technologies Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Specialized in creating info graphics to explain complex radio technology processes to clients and new business. Created power point presentations, worked on web site redevelopment, designed product user guides, and customer proposals. ### Contract Graphic / Web Designer @ FanBox Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 • Responsible for effective, user-friendly visual design of Web pages, Web elements and banner ads for Social Network with over 50 million users world wide • Designed User Interface for Interactive Web applications • Worked as part of Product team to conceptualize and problem solve use cases and user flows • Collaborated with engineers and programmers to support and ensure efficient project work flow ### Junior Designer @ Comet Creative (formerly Studio 2055) Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 • Designed logos, business cards, brochures, newsletters, web pages, environmental and trade show graphics, PowerPoint presentations, e-mail marketing campaigns and managed projects from concept to completion • Wrote and edited press releases; advertorials; ad, print and web copy and e-mail newsletters • Created flowcharts and conceptualized usability for web sites • Met with clients and vendors to ensure on-time delivery • Drove Studio 2055's marketing efforts by creating a customer relationship management process and system • Conceived big idea for "Behind the Numbers" campaign, which was then incorporated into all Studio brand collateral and web site • Innovated and designed various direct-marketing promotional campaigns ### Art Director @ Spartan Daily Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 Created newspaper ads and campaigns to meet client's objectives, laid-out newspaper, prepared camera-ready art for print, sold ad space ### Freelance Account Supervisor @ Los Gatos Morning Rotary Club Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 • Identified need and secured project consisting of a marketing campaign for Los Gatos Morning Rotary Club's Lobster Block Party benefit event • Organized and led a team of 14 to develop web site, promotional posters, point of purchase displays, newspaper, radio, and TV ads • Exceeded goal of 1,500 attendees at event ### President @ Spartan Ad Society Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 • Established club goals and created committees: Advertising Department Reform, Marketing/Recruitment, Pro Bono, Club Newsletter and Events • Organized educational events and recruited and hosted guest speakers and other support from local companies and professionals • Organized 2nd annual Meet me After School Networking Event including venue, sponsors and speakers • Attended by over 50 students and professionals ### Graphic Artist @ AAF National Student Advertising Competition, client Yahoo! Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 • Worked with creative team on print, TV, and online interactive pieces to produce a stunning campaign for Yahoo! • Designed layout, wrote copy and created graphic art for campaign book; researched preferences and interests of target market • Invited to Yahoo! after competition to present campaign to top marketing executives ## Education ### BS in Advertising, Graphic Design San José State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/monicagirel - Portfolio: https://www.monicagirel.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/monicagirel JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/monicagirel/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13