Hey there – 

I'm a designer with over 5 years of professional experience creating design systems,  building web and mobile products, and learning new things along the way. Currently, I'm a Senior Product Designer at CommerceHub.

Phone: 573-200-1640
Email: nielsen.samantha.m@gmail.com

Experience

CommerceHub / Senior Product Designer

  • Current position

Twenty Ideas / User Interface Designer

  • Own the visual design of a wide range of products including dashboards and mobile apps

  • Build and maintain design system libraries in Figma

  • Create and present high-fidelity prototypes and interaction flows

  • Contribute to design thinking and idea generation activities
  • Work closely with a cross-functional team of designers, product managers and engineers to build and ship designs
  • Participate and contribute to design discovery methods that include: user journeys, user flows, and personas

Trimble SketchUp / Graphic Designer

  • Responsible for researching, framing, and maintaining a design system for implementation on numerous SketchUp and Trimble websites

  • Support Trimble sites from discovery to completion by mocking up web pages, designing animations and pattern libraries, and creating wireframes

  • Instrumental in creating and maintaining brand style guides for events, design systems, email templates, and brand standards for SketchUp

Freelance Design Work

  • Supported various clients in a wide range of projects including brand design, email templates building, deck design, and website design

  • Managed deadlines, invoices, and communication with clients
  • Work with clients to identify their needs and pitch potential solutions

Truman Media Network / Design Lead

  • Worked with writers and editors to discuss and determine the graphics needed for each weeks paper

  • Managed a team of three designers and delegated tasks appropriately

  • Initiated design reviews and provided constructive feedback to designers

  • Ensured that the paper was completely ready to go to print on a weekly basis

MarketEdge Communications / Freelance Design

  • Performed website updates using HTML and CSS

  • Migrated content from older websites into new themes

  • Optimized and edited photographs for use on the web

  • Effectively worked remotely and delivered completed work in a timely manner 

Education

Truman State University

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication
Minor in Computer Science

Skills

Design Research
User Interviews
Miro Sketching
User flows
Requirements Gathering
XFT Collaboration  
Interface Design
Interaction Design
Prototyping
Design Systems

Tools

Figma 💘
Miro
Notion

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