I’m Codey — Human Centered Product Designer & Strategist

Actively working with clients to bring their ideas to life.

• Launching Dice's 1st ever pricing page... leading to $40k in revenue within the 1st month
• Delivered key features, including a candidate recommendation page and customizable screener questions, to increase recruiter engagement and improve hiring efficiency
• Led user research and usability testing, gathering insights to drive data-informed design decisions and enhance the employer experience
• Facilitated cross-functional workshops with product and design leaders to align on user needs, address tech debt, and improve the platform’s competitiveness
• Supported the beta launch of a redesigned employer experience, ensuring a streamlined, user-centered solution that optimized workflows and usability.
• Collaborated with the design systems team to contribute scalable, accessible components, ensuring consistency across the platform and improving design efficiency

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• Led redesign efforts for native mobile app to enhance user experience, and increase adoption and retention rates according to user needs and business objectives 
• Developed the foundations of a new design system and interactive design elements to complement the existing brand and provide a cohesive user experience across all channels 
• Established streamlined collaboration processes between cross-functional teams and engineers, resulting in a highly productive and agile work environment 
• Conducted thorough research and testing of AI-powered solutions to expand the product's value proposition and user experience

• Improved user start rate by 30% by addressing user needs identified through research utilizing user interviews, surveys, and quantitative data 
• Developed and implemented a flexible, scalable information architecture framework to provide an optimal user experience that adapts to users' evolving needs and preferences 
• Partnered with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and designers in a fast paced, agile environment to ideate, iterate, and implement new features and product improvements.

• Provided feedback on students' user research, UX, and UI work 
• Worked directly with students to help them understand and apply UX/UI design principles using tools such as Figma, Invision, Miro, and more 
• Mentored student teams doing client work ensuring they delivered high-quality, professional research, designs, and documentation

• Collaborated with clients, designers, and developers to design responsive websites and web applications, and utilized qualitative and quantitative feedback to iterate on designs and meet business objectives 
• Solved user needs and business challenges through user research, information architecture, user flows, interaction design, visual design, wireframing, prototyping, and user testing 
• Managed clients and design teams, defined deliverables, set schedules, and managed deadlines 

• Served as UX consultant on the decision and integration of a new eLearning platform
• Managed and optimized the online shopping experiences of a storefront with over $1M in annual sales
• Designed and built landing pages using WordPress and basic front-end coding