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Jacob M. - Remote product UI/UX designer

Jacob M.

Product Designer
Based in: 🇺🇸 United States
Timezone: Pacific Time (US & Canada) (UTC-7)

About

I’m a Product Designer in the San Francisco Bay area with 5 years of experience in B2B SaaS.

At Inkling, I drove value for the business by leading the design of four major product features: the search experience, printing and exporting documents, a front-line worker checklist iPad app, and user management tools. These projects delivered measurable results, including a 50% increase in user satisfaction, and reduced task completion time by 21%.

I also owned the design system, crafting over 100 components across web, iOS, and Android to unify the Inkling platform. With 10 years of experience as a front-end web developer, I brought a unique perspective to design-development collaboration. I successfully implemented new processes to integrate design and development efforts, addressed a backlog of accessibility issues, and improved designer workflow efficiency by 34%.

Beyond project work, I’ve helped shape design culture by facilitating cross-functional design sprints, running design critiques, and leading co-creation workshops with both internal teams and enterprise customers. I’m passionate about solving complex problems and creating intuitive, impactful experiences. I'd love to connect and discuss how I can bring value to your team.

Work Experience

UX Designer
Inkling | Aug 2022 - Jun 2024
UI design
Usability testing
User Research
Ideation
Figma
UX design
  • Led user research and overhauled search feature design, resulting in a 50% increase in user satisfaction.
  • Owned the design system, crafted 100+ Figma components, designers estimated increased workflow efficiency 34%.
  • Redesigned document print/export experience reducing users’ task completion time by 21%.
  • Led design sprints and cross-functional collaboration, resulting in completely new product concepts.
  • Spearheaded co-creation workshops, design critiques, and UX study group, improving team communication.
Senior Front End Designer
Inkling | Nov 2018 - Aug 2022
HTML/CSS
Web Development
RWD
Adobe Photoshop
User Research
Figma
Sass
  • Mentored junior designers, establishing and promoting best practices for content design and reusable code.
  • Collaborated with customers to design and implement 16+ design systems for high-volume training content.
  • Engineered custom WYSIWYG templates utilizing HTML, CSS, SCSS/Sass, JSON, and proprietary code.
  • Enhanced content authoring UX by driving 6 iterations of the Master Template code-base, improving user workflow.

Projects

Inkling Search
HTML/CSS
Wireframing/prototyping
Visual design
User Research
Figma
UX design
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Inkling Design System
Visual design
Figma
Design Systems
Design system for web and mobile.

Education

San Francisco State University
Bachelor's degree・Visual Communication Design
Sep 2016 - May 2018

Certifications & Awards

Product Design
Dribbble | Jun 2022
Computer Studies: Web Graphic Designer
Santa Rosa Junior College | May 2013