Five years shipping B2B SaaS, compliance kiosks, and operator tooling for billion-dollar retailers. I close the design-to-engineering handoff for prototypes and small projects — vibe-coded, deployed, real. MS in HCI. Bilingual EN/ES. AI-augmented workflow that's actually documented.
Regulated and enterprise. Gaming compliance, national retail, fintech-adjacent operations. Industries where bad design creates legal, financial, or operational risk.
End-to-end ownership. Discovery through deployed code. This portfolio site, my consultancy site, and several case study pages were vibe-coded and shipped by me — not handed off.
MS, HCI · Bilingual EN/ES · 4 enterprise design system contributions · AI-augmented workflow with documented prompts and process · Cursor, Claude, Replit, Lovable.
The Value I Bring
Bringing over 5+ years of UX expertise, my work has a proven track record of driving significant business outcomes. I've been pivotal in doubling revenue streams for billion-dollar companies, dramatically increasing website traffic, and successfully reducing user friction — making digital experiences smoother and more efficient.
I leverage cutting-edge AI tools to produce higher-quality design work faster — without losing the human empathy that makes UX meaningful. This isn't a buzzword. It's my daily practice.
Selected Product Work
Gaming Tech · Compliance · Workflow Systems
Bad Dog Games · Lead Product Designer · 2024–Present · Shipped & live
Bad Dog Games needed a more reliable way to confirm machine activity, location, and route scan completion. I designed a QR/code workflow that reduced technician dependency, helped prevent lockouts, and made the scan experience clearer for older and bilingual users.
Enterprise SaaS · Loss Prevention · National Retail
Dick's Sporting Goods · Lead UX Designer · Sole designer on project
Store teams relied on paper binders to tag merchandise sensors, creating compliance issues, product damage, and time loss. I led UX across four stakeholder groups and designed a barcode-first workflow that improved efficiency and cross-team communication.
Mobile IA · Convenience Retail · Research
GetGo by Giant Eagle · UX Researcher & Designer
A bloated, poorly categorized menu created decision fatigue and order drop-off. I restructured the taxonomy through tree testing and validation, reducing add-to-order friction and improving ordering efficiency.
E-Commerce · Design System · Consumer Web
CALIA by Carrie Underwood / Dick's Sporting Goods · UX Designer
A third-party storefront was limiting the brand experience and burying key collections. I supported card sorting, surveys, information architecture, and design system work during the in-house rebuild.
Built with AI
AI Consultancy · Brand · Live Site
I created the brand positioning, site architecture, visual direction, and live website for Apex UX using an AI-augmented design and development workflow. This project shows how I use AI tools to move quickly from strategy to shipped product.
Why Choose Me
I leverage sophisticated AI tools to produce enhanced content and solutions with greater speed, while preserving the human empathy that defines great UX.
My designs are led by data and user-centric approaches — obtaining proven results for billion-dollar companies including 43% friction reduction and doubled sales YoY.
I excel in stakeholder involvement through solution-focused workshops, pivotal for project alignment and consensus-building across cross-functional teams.
I've co-managed 4 robust design systems at enterprise scale, maintaining consistency, scalability, and quality across component libraries and style guides.
Toolkit
Social Proof
"Stephanie is a passionate and energetic designer with a wonderfully thoughtful approach to problem solving. She is naturally inquisitive, asks insightful and probing questions to gain deep knowledge of her product space and its users. It was my pleasure to bring her into the DSG design org."
"Stephanie is incredibly driven and does not shy away from challenges — she's a sponge of knowledge within UX and makes it her personal mission to continue to learn, share, and support herself and her peers. She is the empathizer in chief!"
"Stephanie used surveys and data-gathering processes to achieve the highest web traffic numbers of all our school websites in the first quarter — five times higher than our elementary school average. She was very innovative and hard working."
Let's Connect
With a proven track record of boosting engagement and conversions, I deliver user experiences that drive substantial business growth. Let's create compelling, user-first designs that elevate your company's bottom line.
Prefer a call or text? Reach me at 323-813-5231
