Hi! I'm Allie.
I’m a senior product designer based in Chicago, IL, with 5+ years of experience delivering design solutions for mobile and web products.
I apply user-centered design principles to craft beautiful and intuitive experiences that solve user and business needs.
Click into a project to check out my work!
Currently looking for my next opportunity.
I would love to hear from you if you think I could be a good fit for your team!
ABOUT ME
I am a naturally curious and self-motivated designer with a passion for uncovering and defining user challenges, then crafting the best possible solutions.
My journey as a designer started a couple years after college. I held roles in marketing and client services and found myself yearning for more opportunities to use my ability to think both analytically & creatively and to do more problem solving. I had initial exposure to UX while completing my Interactive Media Studies minor in college, so I decided to complete a course in UX Design.
Shortly after completing that course, I began my first design role as an Experience Designer at Arity. In this role, my focus was on the UX and UI of Arity’s telematics insurance app, as well as their crash detection offering. In my role at Foxtrot, my focus was on their retail technology product offerings. My team built internal tools that are used by store team members, store and district managers, merchandisers, guest relations, and many other teams at Foxtrot.
In my design style, I bring my eye for detail and curiosity about everything. I work to balance user needs, business needs, and technical constraints to shape useful, usable products and services that bring value to users’ lives. I love to tackle problems that sit at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds, with 5 years of experience doing just that.
In my downtime, I love spending time with family, catching up on my favorite podcasts, exploring new restaurants in the city, and more often than not, taking a power nap.
If you have any questions or would like to get to know more about me, please get in touch!
Pronouns
She/Her
Education
B.S. Marketing, Farmer School of Business, Miami of Ohio
My superpowers
Communication, organization, adaptability
Sun sign
Virgo
Myers-Briggs
ISFJ-A
A few of my non-design related passions
Spending time with my family, traveling, dogs + cats, astrology, skincare + makeup, pilates, making matcha lattes
Experience
2024 - Present
Crafty
Senior Product Designer
At Crafty, my focus was on designing solutions to help Crafty employees and clients manage their office food and beverage programs. I owned end-to-end design work on their Platform, a suite of web and mobile products used by both internal users and client users.
In addition to my product work, I led efforts to advance Crafty's UX research efforts - collaborating with the VP of Product to develop client personas, creating a research plan template, and acting as a SME on user research within the technology team.
2022 - 2024
Foxtrot
Senior Product Designer
I led product design for the Retail Experience Group. This team built technology for Foxtrot employees (store team members, marketing, finance, supply chain, etc.), including a react native mobile app and react web app.
2019 - 2022
Arity
Experience Designer
In my time at Arity, I gained 3 years of experience working on mobile products and developed an expertise in mobile UX/UI design, working primarily on Arity's mobile telematics app. I also practiced human centered design methods and techniques, and became a LUMA Certified Facilitator of Human-Centered Design.
2018 - 2019
Springboard
Certificate in UX Design
I completed a six month online course in order to gain more knowledge and experience with UX. Some topics the course covered include user centered design, user research, content strategy, wireframing, and visual design.
My final project was selected to showcase on Springboard’s “Best UX Design Portfolios” list.
2018 - 2019
Ansira
Account Executive
My main duties were to publish media and content online, test webpages from a usability viewpoint, edit and update webpages via HTML, and QA layouts and imagery of web content. I also acted as the primary manager of an internal marketing content toolkit, taking ownership of client communications, webpage updates, collaborations with creative, and developing process documents.
2017 - 2018
HMT Associates
Account Coordinator
My primary role was to act as the backbone and organization of the client service team. I created and managed weekly timelines to ensure the team met all key deadlines, developed client presentations and communications, and assisted in creating a comprehensive suite of training documents for future team members.
2013 - 2017
Miami University
Bachelors of Science in Marketing
Minors in Interactive Media Studies and French