University of California, Los Angeles

Corona High School

Design Manager for Education at Adobe

San Francisco Bay Area

Adobe

Design Manager

- Through effective storytelling, serves as the voice of the user, aligns cross-functional teams on goals and design solutions, and illustrates both current state and future vision• With a foundation in both ethnographic and usability-focused research methods, serves as a central source of design knowledge on needs of educators and students across age level• Advises and strategizes on priorities, roadmaps, and opportunities in partnership with other functions• Guides and critiques the work of other designers• Works effectively across end-to-end design process, with ability navigate opportunity windows and appropriately craft quick-fix as well as blue sky design• Advocates for design priorities with presentations and negotiation, with a perspective on business metrics and end-user experience

Lead UX Designer, Education

Senior User Experience Designer

Imagining, prototyping, building, testing, and iterating great experiences for Adobe Stock!• With heavy investment in user research and testing, partnered with business leadership to shape the messaging and visual communication of a new pricing model. • In collaboration with Product, Content, and Engineering, produced a new content vertical which is currently available to the public. This involved some heavy work in taxonomy and task flows/systems implementation, and lots of flexibility to address new requirements as they evolved. • Driving every project with a voice for the user, an empathetic ear, nose for business, and curiosity for technical constraints.

Experience Designer

Obeo Health Inc.

UX Designer

- Developed and delivered a 3-person project for an HR startup to help them find product-market fit. Contextual inquiries (interviews), customer development, competitive analysis, and data synthesis.• With a B2B2C tablet + desktop financial app, addressed user dropoff in onboarding throughusability testing. Solutions spanned interaction, form design, and content strategy. • Concepted a spec feature for Venmo using personas, design stories, whiteboards, task flows, sketches, wireframes, and interactive prototyping.• Solo service design case study for mHealth app. Heuristic analysis, usability techniques, emotional maps, and storyboards. Shared findings with Executive and Design teams.

Tradecraft

UX Research and User-Centered Design projects, including wearables and web. Supported in-home research interviews with journey mapping, directed storytelling, card sorting, ethnographic observation.Responsibilities: critical incident recognition, design proposals, heuristic direction, participant recruitment, interview support, survey analysis.

Contract

Freelance UX Researcher

As a nonprofit-specialized recruiter, I connected talented jobseekers with world-changing nonprofits and high-growth startups. The natural curiosity and attention for detail that made me a great Recruiter has made me a very empathetic and aware Designer.

Scion Staffing

Recruiter

- Advised a set of culturally diverse students in residence halls to create strong relationships, healthy self-sufficiency, and mental and physical safety among students. • Planned and executed 100+ attendee women’s violence awareness program “Take Back the Night” as recognized by The Daily Bruin and Chancellor Gene Block.

UCLA Office of Residential Life

Resident Assistant

- Led a team of producers by establishing understanding of roles to maintain accountability.• Wrote scripts for bimonthly, national-broadcast TV show about UCLA Athletics.• Worked flexibly with last-minute changes and tight deadlines to ensure up-to-date information.

Lexi Hradisky