# Stephanie Chen Gulla > Graduate Student, Marriage & Family Therapy | Design Leader Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/stephaniechengulla Leader with 15+ years experience in design. Passionate about creating safe and joyful environments for ICs through cultural stewardship. Empowering cross-functional teams to create delightful, user-centered experiences that deliver on service and increase value. ## Work Experience ### Senior Design Manager @ Lyra Health Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Lead the Care Experience for our core therapy service, overseeing our Client and Provider tools as well as our Self-Care library. ### Design Manager, Patients & Providers @ Alto Pharmacy Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Apple Store Rating: 4.9 stars (1000+ ratings) Managing 6 designers/researchers across two teams. Passionate about creating safe and joyful environments for ICs through cultural stewardship. Empowering cross-functional teams to create user-centered experiences that deliver on service and increase value. Notable achievements: •  Identified and shepherded critical strategies for the provider experience that are now readying for release •  Worked closely with directors of product and engineering to create and evangelize product development process that has increased team velocity by 150% •  Recruiting and hiring multiple designers in high-growth environment, including senior/staff level and contractor •  Served as interim co-head of design, reporting directly to CTO and managed through a staff reduction •  Developing design ops processes such as design critiques and executive reviews •  Built Alto UX's external presence through Medium articles and Twitter ### UX Product Design Manager @ Google Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area In partnership with Product and Engineering, lead design for business critical initiatives that spanned multiple teams and ICs. Directly managed 2 reports, including both junior and senior levels. Spearheaded design team practices including critique rituals, interaction pattern documentation and ship/release approvals. Notable achievements: •  Designed feature concepts in collaboration with engineering and product that have helped set feature roadmap and vision •  Lead accelerated design and engineering spike to prototype refreshed UI framework •  Developed processes for improved transparency across teams and disciplines, such as Wikis, design templates. •  Managing 2 designers, mentoring many more Customer reactions: "It's so user-friendly, it takes no time for [us] to get in there and start using it." "Easy to use, good-looking interface." "Hire’s intuitive and simple UI makes it easy for recruiters, hiring managers or even interviewers to take an active part in the recruiting process.” ### Co-Founder & Creative Director @ In Progress Labs Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Collaborated with engineering partner to create a popular productivity app, Redline, that logged over 2.5k users over its lifetime. Developed exclusive partnerships with leading product management tools. We sold Redline to Usersnap in 2015. Product requirements and all experience designs, including: • user requirements and user flows • annotated wireframes • user testing and customer success • pixel-perfect assets and GUI Designing all brand and marketing materials, including: • animated demos and teasers • writing and mockups for all ads and blog posts Customer reactions: "I enjoyed how easy it has made submitting bug reports to the development team." "We are really enjoying Redline! We kicked off a large testing cycle last week and have had close to a thousand Redlines come in. It has been a great tool!" ### Product & UX Design Lead @ Freelance Jan 2002 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Product design lead for high-impact app, web, mobile, editorial and brand solutions in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Notable achievements: Doctor On Demand mobile app - Redesigned brand and UX with executive team in accelerated timeline, resulting in 100+% increase in daily video visits. Launch included 2 new services for psychologists and lactation consultants. Flinto Profiles - Managed, wrote and designed in-depth articles of some of the most exciting new voices in the industry. Reaction quotes - "Beautifully-designed and a great read." "This article is really inspiring." "Great way to present a case study." Other clients include: Zepp (innovative sports accessory and app). GreatSchools (leading school ratings aggregator). The Bold Italic, GOOD Magazine and The New York Times (editorial). Experience design skills include strategy, customer research and testing, wireflows, wireframes, mockups and prototyping. ### Lead Designer @ Sequence Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area Lead design and teams to create vision prototypes and to-market experiences for mobile phone, tablet and web. Typical project timelines included user research, conceptual strategy, interaction models, look and feel, screen design and final production files. Notable achievements: • Food Network's On the Road Mobile app for iPhone and iPad. Won 2013 Webby Award. • WebMD's Pain Coach for iPhone and Android • Disney's Pix app for iPad ### Senior Designer @ frog Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco Bay Area Lead small, agile teams in researching and creating prototypes for Fortune 50 clients on multi-million dollar accounts, including: • Conceptualization of a multi-entry check-in process • Vision for a fast casual food service company • Re-design of digital maps Designed and presented key deliverables: • Conceptual consumer solutions • Web and mobile prototypes • Animated demos and teasers • In-person user research • Style guides and playbooks In-studio contributions include: • Spearheading a monthly creative workshop series • Building an internal library ### Product Designer @ Blurb Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 Designed solutions for features including: • "About the Book" • Search • PDF Upload Designed marketing collateral and concepts for: • Holiday launch • Pro Photo Council • Photography Book Now Contest Worked closely with engineers to develop new leads in software, including an online bookmaking experience. ### Design Intern @ Prologue Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 Developed concepts and designed storyboards for various movie title and broadcast sequences. Clients included NASCAR and MTV Video Music Awards. ### Designer @ MSLK Inc. Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 Designed websites and print collateral for fashion and creative brands. Developed studio self-promotionals. Programmed online store and updates of company website. ## Education ### Master's degree in Integral Counseling Psychology California Institute of Integral Studies ### M.F.A. in Graphic Design California Institute of the Arts ### B.A. in English University of California, Berkeley ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/superchen - Portfolio: http://www.superchen.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/stephaniechengulla JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stephaniechengulla/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13