Alex Rivera

Senior Product Designer

alex.rivera@email.com | +1 (555) 234-5678 | San Francisco, CA

alexrivera.design | linkedin.com/in/alexrivera | github.com/alexrivera

Research Interests / Profile

Creative product designer with 7+ years of experience crafting intuitive digital experiences. Passionate about the intersection of design and technology, with a track record of shipping products used by millions.

Education

California College of the ArtsSeptember 2014 – May 2018

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interaction Design, GPA: 3.9

Professional Experience

Senior Product Designer—Vercel, San Francisco, CA

March 2022 – Present

Led design for the new dashboard experience, improving user activation by 34%
Collaborated with 3 cross-functional teams to ship the Analytics v2 product
Established a component library used across 5 product teams

Product Designer—Linear, Remote

June 2020 – February 2022

Designed core issue tracking workflows from 0 to 1
Reduced task creation friction by 40% through iterative usability testing
Created and maintained the design system token architecture

UX Designer—Figma, San Francisco, CA

September 2018 – May 2020

Owned the design for prototyping features used by 2M+ users
Ran 50+ user interviews to inform the multiplayer editing experience

Publications & Projects

[1]

OpenPaletteopenpalette.io
An open-source color palette generator used by 20k+ designers monthly · React, TypeScript, Tailwind

[2]

MotionKitmotionkit.design
A collection of reusable Framer motion presets · Framer, React

Technical Skills

Design Tools: Figma, Framer, Principle, Sketch, Adobe XD

Frontend: React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, CSS Animations

Methods: User Research, Usability Testing, Design Systems, Accessibility, Prototyping