Steph is a product designer based in Brooklyn. Currently making cool shit with NOVA. Teaching Intro to User Experience at Maryland Institute College of Art.
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About Me
I’m currently a Lead Designer at NOVA working on a early-stage product connecting creatives and those who hire them. I love the intersection of business and design and enjoy the high impact nature of start-ups.
I teach user experience design at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Previously, I spent time at two early stage startups Luxury Presence and Dorsal Health. Before that, I was at Instrument working with some amazing clients like Marriott, Sonos, Salesforce, Epic Games, and more.
NOVA2024
current
Currently a lead designer at NOVA where I spearheaded the design and launch of NOVA’s first web application, prioritizing user experience best practices and ensuring feature parity with an existing native mobile app. I concepted and designed hiring flows helping users review and categorize applications, message applicants, and mark hires for jobs they hired for. Other flows include applying to the app, posting a job, reviewing applicants, posting projects and more. Currently, my responsibilities include designing new features, designing a new logo, contributing to rebranding efforts, and occasionally enhancing iOS features.
Luxury Presence2023–20241.5 years
Redesigning various tools for real estate agents. A highlight project included redesigning an entire home search tool. I collaborated closely with a product and engineering manager to introduce 20+ improvements across the tool improving search, filtering, map browsing, and more. Other work involved designing tools for real estate agents allowing them to better collaborate with buyers and sellers.
Dorsal Health2022–2023
1.5 years
As the first hire at a pre-seed, cutting-edge tele-health startup aimed at helping individuals with chronic pain find relief, I led many pivotal projects. First, a large re-branding effort aimed at blending the right balance of approachable and trusted with modern and fresh.
I also led the design of a web application and mobile application aimed at providing chronic pain services like physical therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy, all through a multi-person care team. I collaborated with one other designer and an engineering team.
Epic GamesInstrument - 2021
6 months
With a team at Instrument, I worked on two project initiatives for Epic Games. The first initiative: to unify their notification panel. Over time, different notification types created by different teams fell out of consistency. Through iteration, pressure testing, and collaboration we created a new cohesive set of notification UI. The second initiative: to improve and revamp the UX of moving products back and forth between the shopping cart and wishlist.
Marriott BonvoyInstrument - 2019
12 monthsWith 30+ hotel brands under the Marriott umbrella and a newly introduced Marriott Bonvoy™ loyalty program, I helped to design a mobile app and design system from scratch. My team at Instrument and I focused on designing an app that adapted contextually to different key stages of a guests journey, elevated the importance of the Bonvoy loyalty program beyond hotel stays, and allowed each individual hotel brand to shine at certain moments while still giving the Marriott brand elevated spaces.
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SalesforceInstrument - 2020
12 months
I worked on a series of projects for Salesforce including a revamp of their brand and a redesign of salesforce.com/blog. The brand evolution work focused on finding ways to use Salesforce’s core brand elements: product, people and planet in a fresh, cohesive way. Redesigning the blog utilized the aforementioned brand evolution artifacts and focused on implementing categories, tagging for wayfinding, and elevating author voices.
SonosInstrument - 2019
6 weeks
Worked on a series of content projects including mobile app banners, advertisements and promotions, website pages, emails, and other marketing tidbits. Explored layouts and brand moments adhering to Sonos brand guidelines.
IntuitiveInstrument - 2020
6 weeksDesigned an app store logo for Intuitive Surgical and their series of products. This project consisted of several weeks and 100s (maybe even 1000s) of logo iterations.
CannondaleInstrument - 2018
9 monthsAssisted with the design of Cannondale.com. We revamped the site with an emphasis on e-commerce best practices and refreshed the visual identity giving Cannondale a new, sporty fresh look.