Experience

 
 

Priceline

Design Manager

Promoted from Senior Product Designer

2021-2026

Leading design for Priceline’s Site Experience, Post Booking, Customer Care, and Package offerings

  • Set design direction and experimentation strategy, and did hands-on design, as design partner to up to four concurrent product teams, presenting work regularly in critiques and biweekly to the CPO

  • Led design across Site Experience (homepage, search, navigation), Post Booking (confirmation, account, VIP program), Packages (package path, cross-sell), Customer Care (internal tools and customer support experiences), and, later, Customer Growth (teams included Acquisition, Messaging, Cross-sell, Post Booking, Loyalty)

  • Managed and mentored a team of product designers, establishing critique structure, design QA standards, and continuous exploration practices

  • Partnered with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, and Business to define priorities, product roadmaps, and quarterly objectives

  • Led Recent Activity, a multi-quarter personalization initiative built with the Homepage and Post Booking teams, from early research and competitive audit through launch, validated through A/B testing and user testing

  • Designed Trip Inspire, an AI-powered trip preview feature for Packages that generates personalized trip content; the winning A/B test led to its adoption as a pattern across other booking paths

  • Led design for VIP program, evolving the loyalty program from a transactional discount tier into a clearer, more motivating experience, validated through research with members and non-members


Guardian Direct

Senior Experience Designer

2020-2021

Product design for an insurtech startup with a mission to bring insurance directly to the people

  • Redesigned the site experience for this insurtech startup into a friendly, evolving DTC insurance experience, validating decisions through user testing and designing for new product offerings

  • Designed with a conversion mindset, balancing user needs and business goals, and grew enrollments and revenue year over year

  • Led user testing and research, facilitating tests and building an insights framework that made findings easier to share and act on

  • Partnered closely with Product, Engineering, and executives on a new design system, improving designer efficiency and consistency


Corra

UX Designer

2018 - 2020

UX design and research for a leading digital and e-commerce agency.

Clients included Sanrio, Baked by Melissa, Wahoo Fitness, and James Perse

  • Delivered website redesigns and optimization engagements for e-commerce brands; managed concurrent client engagements, presenting to stakeholders, and iterating quickly; clients included Baked by Melissa, Sanrio, Wahoo Fitness, Riachuelo (10,000+ SKU catalog), and James Perse

  • Led concepts from ideation to development via sketches, wireframes, documentation, and user stories; utilized analytics, research, and user testing to guide work

  • Designed Baked by Melissa’s “Pick Your Own” customization flow, a build-your-own-order experience balancing flexibility with a clean path to checkout, driving a 29.8% year-over-year conversion increase

  • Developed consulting and workshop offers, including Customer Journey Mapping and Auditing services, delivering actionable metrics and heuristic insights, boosting client Hedley & Bennett’s revenue by 10%

  • Identified friction point for Wahoo Fitness via behavioral analysis, redesigned navigation and taxonomy, increasing purchases by 6%

  • Led design workshops that included sketching, card sorting, and component rating; lessening amount of ramp up time for UX and design, resulting in more succinct sprints

  • Created sitemaps and taxonomy structures, utilizing data and client KPIs to guide creation


Hylink

Interactive Designer

2017

UX, UI, & prototype design for China's largest independent advertising agency

  • Created UX and UI designs from low-fidelity sketches to high-fidelity designs for internal and client projects

  • Created prototypes for internal and client projects with a focus on interactive elements

  • Worked with developers to oversee the implementation of design and interaction specs

  • Led educational efforts within the agency to educate all teams on UX basics and best practices, advocating for the use of research and analytics to inform design decisions


Malia Mills

E-Commerce & Content Manager

2016 - 2017

Relaunched & modernized the website and digital presence for luxury swimwear brand

  • Owned e-commerce strategy and execution; led a full Shopify redesign, established brand guidelines, and managed digital marketing and email campaigns, reporting directly to the Founder

  • Executed content strategy informed by analytics, resulting in an increase in website visits and conversion rate as improvements were made each month

  • Designed UX and UI for key elements, including search, filters, and website navigation, resulting in clear purchase paths and less time spent on the homepage for consumers

  • Managed content calendar for marketing efforts and product launches; created and monitored email newsletters using MailChimp


Barrel 

Junior UX Designer

Promoted from UX Apprentice

2015 - 2016

UX design for lifestyle, health, & wellness clients at a boutique e-commerce agency.

Clients included Well + Good, Jacob's Pillow, and Vermont Smoke & Cure

  • Designed UX, from sketches to wireframes, for Wordpress and Shopify, gaining a technical understanding of each platform

  • Played an active role in internal UX education and research efforts

  • Spearheaded agency’s user research efforts, leading interviews, focus groups, and online surveys

  • Created sitemaps with corresponding content collection plans, resulting in a more refined and organized intake process for both agency and client


Skills

Tools: Design: Figma, Adobe Suite, Sketch, Principle; User testing: usertesting.com, Dscout; Analytics: Google Analytics, Full Story, Hotjar; AI: Claude, ChatGPT; General: Microsoft Suite; MailChimp
Understanding of: HTML & CSS; Shopify; Magento


Education

Boston University - College of Communication

Bachelor of Science in Communication- Concentration in Advertising

Graduated Magna Cum Laude 


Parsons School of Design - The New School

Graphic & Digital Design Certificate Program