United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Interaction Design

UX Testing

Chelsie Christian

Senior Product Designer

Usability Testing

Relationship management

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Human computer interaction

Information architecture

Product roadmap

Optimal Workshop

SurveyMonkey

Tableau

Trello

UserTesting

Balsamiq

Canva

ChatGPT

Figma

Jira

Lucidchart

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

Confluence

Workday

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Negotiation

Forecasting and reporting

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Dove into an adaptive standardized testing study platform design and later, another project with GenAI and Multimodal AI product features. Focused on creating experiences grounded in learning science data demonstrating UX principles and methodologies in practice. Worked cross-functionally with UX researchers, instructional designers, product strategists, and developers supporting global user needs and speculative market fit.

• Led the end-to-end design for digital products, ensuring alignment with business goals and usability.
• Defined intuitive information architecture and created user flows, wireframes, and complex multi-variable mode prototypes in Figma.
• Redefined key features and navigation on TestReady, a platform that helps international students prepare for the TOEFL exam through personalized study guides, pacing plans, and practice tests.
• Built interaction design foundations for 2 new modules in SkillScope, an innovative EdTech suite designed to assess durable skills beyond traditional subjects like math and science, aimed at preparing higher education students for their careers. This project had not yet launched in its intended scale due to ongoing marketing efforts.
• Collaborated with developers in agile environments to ensure designs adhered to technical and accessibility standards.
• Mentored junior designers and facilitated design-thinking workshops to drive innovation.

Transformed customer and business objectives into product design solutions that have purpose, simplicity, and are feasible to build. Inspired systems thinking across over 13,000 in-network shelters/rescues accounts with bias for action and customer focus which resulted in cutting steps in the e-commerce donation workflow by 50%. Led design process from beginning to end on each project I had. Scaled wish list creation to at least 200% while maintaining consistency to unite Chewy Gives Back with Chewy's flagship design system. Influenced stakeholders and executive leadership during design discovery, iterations, and final decisions.

• Innovated shelters/rescues internal portal within Chewy platform aimed at helping them create more targeted wish lists, marketing, and being able to visualize donation data.
• Re-defined some systems of user workflows using research data that enabled organizations to create, post, and scale profiles, wish lists, and lists of adoptable pets to create awareness and encourage donations and adoptions.
• Collaborated with product managers, developers, content strategists, user researchers, other designers, and executive leaders in relevant steps while improving process to be more lean by 25%.

Led and mentored 80% of company's designers in design strategies and screen execution within cross-functional teams when consulting clients on creation and improvements in multi-platform digital products. Exercised 100% of company design-embedded client strategies and introduced more. Managed conflicting inputs to make the best decision for client and project outcomes. Balanced multi-tasking in team leadership and execution on several projects and clients simultaneously. Facilitated discovery sessions within vastly different domains. Planned, coordinated, implemented, and synthesized generative and evaluative research. Crafted workflows, prototypes, and iteration presentations into high-fidelity polished UI. Introduced designer and developer collaboration that cut implementation time by 40%.

• Worked on 23 different client projects, including web-app, mobile, desktop, embedded, and IoT.
• Coached cross-functional teammates and stakeholders on how to participate in and practice design discovery methods for group ownership and user empathy growth.
• Taught interaction design methods, low-to high-fidelity UI skills, product strategy lenses, and how to work collaboratively with a full team to move closer to user and business objectives.

*Fellowship took place parallel to full-time employment
• The Indy Tech Fellowship is a two-year program for new grads*, crafted to place developers, designers, and product managers with leading Indianapolis companies, where we hone skills, each get involved in community service opportunities, and catapult our career development
• Fellows network, play, and work with other fellows and city leaders combined with hard and soft skills development programs

Produced UI screens and workflows, with a particular sensitivity to interaction design, within cross-functional product teams for clients who wanted to create new digital products. Built design practice with my director and interviewed/hired designers of all levels to increase design representation to roughly 1:10 designers to developers. Partnered and paired with developers to form awareness of tech stacks, development possibilities, and engineering prioritization. Learned end-to-end product design processes on teams for small and large-scale projects leading to new customer adoption rates to as high as 55%. Participated in discovery sessions. Increased user and usability research use on teams by 75%.

• Normalized practice of interaction design in UI, information architecture, usability research and synthesis, ideation workshops, journey maps, wireframe interactive prototypes, and pairing with engineers based on contexts, product maturity, and subject matter expertise.
• Utilized best practices in prototyping, visual design, and interaction design for user adoption to inform design decisions, resulting in a 75% increase in user research use and a 55% increase in multi-designer teams.
• Collaborated cross-functionally to create UX strategies and designs that aligned with business goals, driving a 25% increase in design-led projects.
• Informed company design practice and interviewed/hired designers of all levels to increase design representation to 1:10 designers to developers.

Crafted user experiences driven by problems I found from 35% market data and 65% generative research alongside user researchers and product managers. Contributed and shaped new use cases 2x faster for the Salesforce design system (Fuel) in the Marketing Cloud by having a more nimble position as an intern. Practiced engaging with customers, inspiring teams, sketching ideas, and ensuring flawless implementation.

• Collaborated with product designers of all levels, researchers, product managers, and engineers to produce design deliverables and prototype solutions at various levels of fidelity to move product forward.
• Produced component toolkit consistent with the Fuel UX design system to provide designers with new consistent UI controls for the platform.
• Updated outdated workflows with new design system standards while balancing UX for current users co-mingled with users from acquired platform.

• Designed, created, made layouts, and implemented company monthly e-newsletters about Healthcare CRM in HTML5
• Created landing page designs for hc1.com resources/subscriptions and made hero banners for the customer-facing website destinations
• Developed data sheet and one-pager layouts, designs, and templates for mass company use
• Made recruitment flyers, handouts, and banners, along with Beckman Coulter partnership ad, booth sign, and logo
• Made co-branding and company program logos (5) for use on hc1.com and co-branding marketing materials

• Increased awareness of job opportunity in the interdisciplinary nature of technology and design campus-wide, particularly towards the woman and minority students, via individual and professional mentoring meetings and events
• Teamed up to develop the inaugural year of the annual “CEWiT Summit” conference with the Center, created marketing materials and provided student outreach
• Aided in the usability testing and the site map organization of the new website and accompanying sites for events
• Taught free HTML/CSS workshop classes for students in the center
• Researched the market on other women in tech organizations to enhance and build the new center

Chelsie Christian🇺🇸