# Nicole Fiumara

> Founder, Continental Confessions | Designer & Storyteller | Travel x Style & Culture

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nicolefiumara

I’m the founder of Continental Confessions, an editorial fashion and lifestyle platform exploring how women live, dress, and move through cities around the world.
 
Through digital lookbooks, city guides, and storytelling, the platform blends travel, style, and culture, documenting life between places and the evolving identities that come with it.
 
My background spans fashion, design, and UX, with over a decade of experience working across creative direction, visual storytelling, and digital product design. These perspectives inform the editorial approach behind Continental Confessions.
 
I collaborate with brands, creatives, and cultural partners on storytelling, visual direction, and city-based fashion projects.
 
Currently open to thoughtful partnerships and collaborations.

## Work Experience
### Founder of Continental Confessions @ Continental Confessions
Jan 2026 – Present
The platform blends travel, style, and storytelling through curated digital lookbooks, city guides, packing lists, and the Continental Confessions Podcast. Each project explores the intersection of fashion, culture, and identity across global destinations.

Responsibilities include:

• Developing and producing editorial city lookbooks and travel guides
• Creative direction, brand development, and visual storytelling
• Designing digital products and editorial layouts
• Hosting and producing the Continental Confessions Podcast
• Building partnerships with creatives, photographers, and cultural collaborators
• Developing content across web, social media, and digital platforms

Continental Confessions documents life between cities, offering a perspective on travel, style, and the evolving identities of women navigating different chapters of life.

### UX/UI Designer @ BAR WARS
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Remote
Lead a team of four UX designers in the development of a music streaming app’s user experience.
-Spearheaded and designed the integration of a new voice feature for artists to enhance engagement and usability.
- Conduct comprehensive user research, including interviews and usability testing to gain insight for design decisions.
-Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, developers, and marketing to ensure
alignment and successful implementation of design solutions.
-Utilize user-centered design principles to create intuitive and aesthetically pleasing interfaces resulting in improved
user satisfaction and app usage metrics.
-Manage project timelines, deliverables, and team performance, ensuring the timing and high-quality delivery of design
projects.
-Implement design thinking methodologies to foster innovation and creative problem-solving within the team.
-Document developer handoff annotations, measurements, and flows, delivering in a timely manner to ensure clear
communication and understanding of the implementation of the designs.

### UX/UI Designer @ Kosmik Astrology
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Remote
UX/UI Designer, Contract, Remote January 2024-March 2024
Kosmik Astrology
- Leads a team of four for a full cross-functional remote collaboration of a mobile app for an astrology themed concept that includes a friend synastry, natal chart, psychic advisory, and a daily feed, implementing a comprehensive design system, integrating graphic elements to reinforce brand identity with the Gen Z sector.
- Acts as a liaison between stakeholders to ensure clear communication and goal alignment.
-Conducts Competitive analysis and research and user flows to ideate moodboard and elevate page design.
- Collaborate to create user accessibility with cited sources and visual aids
-Create and conceptualize low-fi, mid-fi, and hi-fidelity frames meeting with stakeholders between iterations.
- Create multiple UI iterations and did a full 360 redesign to appeal to the mass market and so the client could make an
informed decision about the functionality of the final project.
-Create a comprehensive style guide
- Document developer hand off annotations, measurements, and flows, delivering in a timely manner.

### UX/UI Designer @ dojj
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Remote
-Redesign a website for a B2B company conducting extensive usability testing and addressing pain points to establish more user-centric flows across the site.
-Explore multiple UI Iterations to develop a new aesthetic that aligns with industry standards to ensure that the final design exceeds user and stakeholder expectations.
-Integrate UI iterations into High-fidelity screens based on user insight for a more enhanced and consistent design through a collaborative approach, reinforcing information architecture.
-Create a prototype demonstrating user flows, features, and the overall user experience, reinforcing transparency and fostering trust with stakeholders.
-Annotate design and measurement methodologies to ensure uniformity and consistency in design elements, contribute to better communication,and create and impact the user experience.

### Fashion Instructor @ Preply
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Remote
-Provide online teaching support to individual students across the world emerging into the fashion field, aiding in the development of professionalism, networking, and business acumen to strategically set them up for success.
-Plan and deliver learning materials based on fashion concepts such as fashion management, buying fundamentals, fashion styling, color theory, and fashion sketching to elevate a student’s knowledge base.
-Assist students with professional documents required for career progression in the fashion industry, such as LinkedIn profiles, resumes, cover letters, and job applications to help students land jobs in their chosen field.
- Introduce and develop over 150 lesson plans yearly to cover visual merchandising principles, fashion and product styling, fashion color and design, and fashion PR.

### Senior Visual Merchandise Planner @ Gap Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area
-Lead the development and launching of brand-formatted stores through strategic planning, cross-functional, collaboration, technical expertise, quality assurance, and project management through feedback and iteration.
- Supervise and direct staff to perform operational activities that drive a brand image through cohesive visual identity, deliver high-quality visual displays, tell compelling brand stories, and implement an omni-channel experience.
-Align all merchandising solutions with store objectives, policies, and procedures that reflect the company's brand.
-Take charge of designing and maintaining store-wide displays across the district, including 12 stores, ensuring visual
representation and brand consistency across stores, and providing ongoing training and development.

### District Visual Sales/Marketing Manager @ Target
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | United States
-Research demographics, consumer lifestyle, and design trends to develop and propose design ideas to the Visual Director of Stores.
- Provide a visual interpretation by determining key design messages within brands, such as analyzing visual elements such as colors, typography, imagery, layout, and overall aesthetics to understand the brand’s identity.
- Handle merchandise, optimize costs, control inventory, review trend reports, and ensure strategic task execution within budget to enhance sales and profitability.


## Education
### MPS- Master's of UX/UI Design in UX Design
Maryland Institute College of Art

### MFS - Master's of Fashion Studies in Retail Management and Fashion Merchandising
LIM College

### License in Cosmetology in Cosemtology
Aveda Institute Portland

### Teaching English as a 2nd language in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor
International TEFL Academy

### Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Merchandising
Academy of Art University

### AA in Fine Arts
HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicole-fiumara-3b2a2631
- Portfolio: https://www.nicolefiumara.com/
- Portfolio: http://www.fiumaramodeling.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-29