United States

Product Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Certification

Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS

High School Diploma

Dana Darr

Product Designer

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Instagram

Product strategy

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Webflow

Asana

Buffer

Canva

ChatGPT

Figma

Jira

Miro

Confluence

Time management

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Social media marketing

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Working with engineers

- Designed UX initiatives, including user journeys, wireframes, and interactive prototypes, which ensured consistency and usability standards across the SaaS Manufacturing Excellence platform.
- Audited the current design library by cooperating with development and product teams to transform the previously disorganized design library into a highly functional and efficient system.

- Rebranded the entire mobile app experience, creating a newly updated design system to increase user retention and acquisition, also speeding up design processes by ~10% a week. 
- Pivoted away from rebranding to continue to meet business goals, decrease the workload on engineers, and strategize the best way to break down major problems into bite-sized solutions to streamline efficiency.

- Developed a data visualization dashboard within Figma with engineering and marketing for their enterprise SaaS platform, improving decision-making for users through more educated decisions and reducing errors caused by misinterpreting data by 8%.

- Established and maintained a living design library within Figma for multiple sports and entertainment clients, intending to improve the design to engineering handoff by at least 10%.
- Revamped existing UI and UX for a mobile sports betting app on iOS and Android, resulting in a 12% increase in user engagement.

- Presenting usability strategies directly to future clients, convincing them of our agency's value, and increasing resources allocated across all projects by approximately 10%.
- Delivered multiple MVPs through an agile end-to-end design process In the agricultural and education sectors, completing 100% of all contracts within budget.

- Strategizing UX solutions for a 100+ employee insurtech company, collaborating with the product manager, developers, marketing team, and stakeholders.
- Working in a cross-functional design team end-to-end to simplify insurance shopping experiences on multiple projects with the goal to improve drop-off rates that were as high as 68%.
- Improving drop-off rates in the customer’s insurance shopping experience by a minimum of 5% across 2 different projects
- Facilitating UX research in a team of 2 designers using methods such as competitive analysis, journey mapping, and surveying.

- Maintained a design system of 1000+ assets to create consistent, accessible UI across the mobile experience before successfully launching onto the iOS marketplace.

- Coached ~10 e-commerce account managers by documenting Seller Central processes through SOPs, resulting in smoother processes and a ~10% reduction in escalations to external teams.
- Acted as a liaison between multiple Amazon teams, EPA Marketing, and our clients to provide account-level support for 15+ businesses, resulting in a ~9% increase in client satisfaction.

- Assisted with gathering product research by gathering consumer preferences and information data.
- Followed strict guidelines to create wireframes that delivered security solutions for users' private data.
- Created and tested different user interface designs by creating graphic user interface elements like menus, tabs, and widgets.

- Achieved multiple team MVP awards for best customer handling within a single month in a team of 15 employees.
- Cross-trained in 2 departments within an enterprise company to improve the customer’s experience and reduce my handling time by 5%.

- Discovered a gap in leadership and took the initiative to earn a promotion to a lead driver in our company of 30+ employees
- Capitalized on Amazon's delivery metrics for speed and accuracy, working my way to the top 10 out of 30+ employees

- Awarded for winning highest sales average and highest total sales of the entire store out of 10 employees
- Fielded social media campaigns, raising customer foot traffic by 20% in the first year of opening
- Ran competitive analysis on stores to see what sales and inventory worked for our area with a goal to boost quarterly sales by 5%+

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