# Nick Cernera > Building something new | Product design consulting and contracting Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nickcernera I love designing for early stage startups. It gives me energy. When I design I focus on pragmatism, speed, and consistency. I partner closely with frontend engineers throughout my design process. A design is only as good as its implementation, and an implementation is only as good as its frontend engineers are happy. I live and breathe design systems. I built the design system for Plural's products from the ground up together with their awesome frontend team and was pleased to see it stronger than ever when I returned after a year at a different company. ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Plural Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States Re-joined Plural as a Senior Product Designer to lead and execute on all design initiatives in the company. ### Product & Game Designer @ Lattice Labs Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | London, England, United Kingdom Leading the design of an onchain video game, Sky Strife. Executed on all non-technical aspects of the production of the game from conception to live launch. ### Product Designer @ Plural Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote As the eighth employee and founding designer at Plural, I've led the design of our design system, core product, and onboarding experience. I've also collaborated with my VP of Design to design our docs, blog, marketing website, and a brand refresh. Nowadays (Q1, 2023) I am working on improving our onboarding and core product through UX research and data-driven insights. ### Product Designer @ CentralReach Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote I maintained and contributed to the design system, prepared responsive delivery specs, and led the design of two products from conception to delivery—an iOS app redesign and a net-new feature, a SaaS dashboard. ### Product Design Intern @ CentralReach Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Matawan, New Jersey, United States ### Product Designer @ Psycho-Kinetic Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Remote • Designed a design system from the ground up for an early access video game and marketing website. • Conducted discovery research and competitive analysis to help gather requirements for various game features and design. • Produced over 25 user flows together with high-fidelity prototypes to test, and implement, key user flows and edge cases. ### Product Design Student @ Thinkful Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Five month immersive program: • Designed an iOS journaling app, called Voyage, over the course of 6 weeks. • Redesigned a client website. • Designed a simple transit app. • Experienced end-to-end product design and full UX process. • Designed and developed personal portfolio website using Webflow. Skills Learned: • End-to-end product design • UX research, usability testing • Wireframing and prototyping on Figma, Sketch, and paper. • Design systems on Figma ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Philosophy & Mathematics The College of New Jersey ### Associate of Science - AS Brookdale Community College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nickcernera - Portfolio: https://www.nickcernera.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/nickcernera JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nickcernera/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29