Curriculum vitae
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Curriculum vitae *
Experience
Lead Product Designer (Design System) / Everwell
November 2024 – Present
Lead Product Designer (Design Systems) owning end-to-end system strategy and component development. Maintained and scaled tokenized libraries across multiple product surfaces. Partnered with engineers and designers to drive adoption, improve documentation, and build tools that elevated design quality and velocity. Championed design ops initiatives and helped evolve org-wide design practices.
Lead Product Designer / Femmi
April 2023 – November 2024
Sole Product Designer (startup) leading UX initiatives and complete redesigns of app. Work alongside Lead Dev sharing responsibility of product management.
Senior Product Designer / Thematic
April 2023 – September 2023
Senior Product Designer (Design System) / Xero
April 2022 – April 2023
Lead and influence initiatives that speak to our larger objectives and business strategy. Includes collaboration with PO, stakeholders and wider team. Define work to be done, roadmap and scope of projects.
Personal fave projects:
Working on an education to better onboard our users into our system, allowing better collaboration, scalability and understanding of quality implementation.
Product Designer / Timely
November 2019 – April 2022
Collaboration with PO on gathering project requirements, building a project canvas, assumption mapping, user research and environment study, plus stakeholder meetings.
Personal favourite projects:
Leading conversation, exploration and conception of design system + implementation with FED.
Consultation feature that allows business owners to build their own consult forms and set up automation so forms are sent automatically with certain services (hugely beneficial during COVID).
UX/UI Designer / Somar Design Studios
2018– 2019
Working alongside UX designer to build complete websites or apps. Understanding and implementing customer brand into a cohesive style guide and UI components.
Personal fave projects:
Complete redesign of Metlink web and mobile app. Design of DIA Pae Hokohoko Marketplace.
Freelance Product Designer
2017– 2018
Product Designer / Raygun
2016– 2017
UI and UX design. Wireframing, prototyping and testing.
Personal fave projects:
Getting to lead the visuals of the new User Monitoring Feature. This included exploring new styles for data visualisation within the app.
Product Designer / SaferMe
2015– 2016
Designed app from scratch. This involved working with dev and stakeholders on defining requirements and ongoing research. Defined brand and style guide.