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Lainey Garretson

Sr Product Designer
Remote, US,TX

Summary

Achieved enhanced user satisfaction by designing experiences that directly address user pain points and needs. Delivered intuitive user interfaces through strategic use of JavaScript libraries. Established a reputation as a key connector among teams, facilitating improved project management and collaboration.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr Product Designer

Freelance
07.2024 - Current
  • Oversaw design project execution, working closely with cross-functional teams to integrate product vision with user needs.
  • Executed extensive research and usability testing to refine user-centered design solutions, significantly enhancing overall product experience.
  • Provided mentorship to junior designers, emphasizing skill development and adherence to industry best practices in design execution.
  • Formulated design guidelines that standardized aesthetics and functionality across various product lines.

Sr. Product Engineer (contract)

BCBS Florida Blue
02.2023 - 01.2024
  • Roles: Agile Stand up, Grooming design with Dev, Interactive Mockups, Helping many teams with mockups. Constructing compelling artifacts with Figma, (wireframes, conceptual diagrams, based on HFD, Interactive Prototype designs, and Human Centered Design with task flows storyboards, etc.) outlining present conditions and proposed solutions to gain strategic alignment and encourage innovation within and across the organization.
  • Ideated with a team to create realistic prototypes for internal evaluation, user testing, and cross-functional critique, Android, iOS Mobile devices.
  • Collaborate with business transformation and IT to perform tech audits to determine solution feasibility.
  • Created and modeled user interface prototypes based on customer requirements, use cases, and business objectives.
  • Produced hi/mid-fidelity prototypes often without the accompanying wireframes, based on the story requirements.
  • Designed UX that supports customers’ goals and behaviors.
  • Advocated concepts and ideas from the customers’ perspective among stakeholders.
  • Encouraged and foster proper UX best practice thinking within the teams.

Sr. Product Designer (contract)

RBI (Restaurant Brand International)
02.2022 - 09.2022
  • Roles: Agile Standup, meetings with PMs, Devs, and managers, Ideation of new application. Designed based on Human Factors Design. Story boards and flow based on Human Centered Design understanding. Key role: to design dashboards for Franchisee employees for Popeyes, Tim Hortons, and Burger King. Our design was dashboards containing data driven charts to keep Restaurant owners and Franchisee managers in the know of what is going on at their restaurant. Design components based on Flutter Charts and Material UI. Focusing on iOS and Android Devices.
  • Prototyping with Figma, Jira- ticket process and Confluence.

Lead Product Designer

BARBRI Global
08.2021 - 11.2021
  • Applications were based on Human Centered and Human Factor Design which were used from our interview process.

Sr. Product Designer, PROJECT MANAGER

Mindtree Consultant (USA)
11.2018 - 03.2020
  • 2019 Project Great American Insurance Group, Cincinnati, Ohio:
  • Roles: of meetings, Mostly, leadership plans and business goals. Gathering requirements, helping devs with components, accessibility issues, product flow, user flow, user personas, User interviews for mobile, Use-cases and user stories for walkthrough learning products and Bar Preps.Using UXPin (prototyping), Figma interactive prototype design focusing on sizes based on Media query points on both iOS and Android tablets, Adobe XD and CC. Jira. Miro. Helping to start a new Product group. Closely working with dev to ensure accessibility, branding, and style guides are used correctly, T.O., P.O., and Architects to build the best for Insurance internal application used by underwriters. I designed the UI built onto team-built wireframes on a REACT framework. Built out theme of UI with style guide and mood boards. Interpreted ideas from meetings with CEO and studying. Worked closely with development team in India.
  • Won A-TEAM Award for helping the Dev team with this project.
  • Worked with Adobe XD, Figma, and React Studio.
  • Helped other with their projects nationwide.
  • Interviewed Applicants for new projects.
  • 2018 Project AAMC: Added Color charts form style

Sr. Product Designer

SDG INTERNATIONAL contractor
10.2016 - 03.2018
  • (RushAssist) – UXPin, Figma, Wireframes, Axure and prototypes, research, and user personas. Inventing the application and building it out.
  • (All City Real Estate Austin) - UX Designer: Used Axure and hand coding Realtor sites with HTML and CSS

Sr. UX/UI Designer

EXPRESSIBLE
10.2014 - 02.2015
  • Lead UX, UI design and development on a social media application initially built by backend devs going to market.
  • This start-up was small but needed the UI, UI and SEO experience to simplify the process of use so that we could sell it and market it.
  • Extensively went through the SEO best practices for

Sr. UX/UI Designer/Developer

LWS SERVICE WORLDWIDE contractor
04.2014 - 10.2014
  • Roles: Research for companies, comparative testing, user flow, personas, Story boards, Wireframes, UI prototyping. Implemented Branding strategies for UI from guides. Intuitive naming conventions for modular design. Developed new user-centered design for new sites that I created code for to replace existing graphic components used in non-responsive websites. Helping the customer decide what code library works Using Creative Suite, JQUERY, CSS3
  • MDbuyline (contract) Designed UI/UX for medical application smaller devices. Utilizing Bootstrap 3, CSS3, user persona.
  • Symphion UI designer for B to B software built on DevExpress integrating HTML5

UI/UX Designer, Web Developer, Developer Team Lead

NERIUM INT.
02.2012 - 04.2013

SR UI/UX WEB DESIGNER

ALWAYS AT AUCTION
08.2012 - 02.2013

Education

Responsive Web Design

University of London and Goldsmiths

Introduction to User Experience Design

Georgia Institute of Technology

User Research and Design

University of Minnesota

Prototyping and Design

University of Minnesota

Introduction to UI Design

University of Minnesota

Design Thinking for Innovation

University of Virginia

music

Richland College

Skills

Executed design strategies focused on creating user interfaces that prioritize simplicity and maximize operational efficiency

Accomplishments

    Helped organizations increase worth. Earned award for working with overseas teams. Earned praises for streamlining processes for affiliate web spaces.

Timeline

Sr Product Designer

Freelance
07.2024 - Current

Sr. Product Engineer (contract)

BCBS Florida Blue
02.2023 - 01.2024

Sr. Product Designer (contract)

RBI (Restaurant Brand International)
02.2022 - 09.2022

Lead Product Designer

BARBRI Global
08.2021 - 11.2021

Sr. Product Designer, PROJECT MANAGER

Mindtree Consultant (USA)
11.2018 - 03.2020

Sr. Product Designer

SDG INTERNATIONAL contractor
10.2016 - 03.2018

Sr. UX/UI Designer

EXPRESSIBLE
10.2014 - 02.2015

Sr. UX/UI Designer/Developer

LWS SERVICE WORLDWIDE contractor
04.2014 - 10.2014

SR UI/UX WEB DESIGNER

ALWAYS AT AUCTION
08.2012 - 02.2013

UI/UX Designer, Web Developer, Developer Team Lead

NERIUM INT.
02.2012 - 04.2013

Responsive Web Design

University of London and Goldsmiths

Introduction to User Experience Design

Georgia Institute of Technology

User Research and Design

University of Minnesota

Prototyping and Design

University of Minnesota

Introduction to UI Design

University of Minnesota

Design Thinking for Innovation

University of Virginia

music

Richland College
Lainey GarretsonSr Product Designer