Brock Willsey

UX Designer • UI Designer • Brand Designer • Chicago, IL, US • Open to relocation

Operations Management

Mobile Design

Growth Hacking

DevOps

Systems Design

User-Centered Design

Product Development

Design Research

UX Strategy

Design Systems

UI/UX Design

Product Strategy

Product Design

Available for hire fromNegotiable

Contracts

Full-Time Roles

Product & Design Leadership | Design Systems | Director, User Experience (UX)

Hello my name is Brock, I’m a product & UX designer and product operations consultant whose career’s mission is to help product teams maximize their ROI. Some of my notable achievements include: Design system extraordinaire - Effectively built and managed design systems at several notable startups including Briq, Kin, and Back At You over the last 10 years. Effective collaborator - Over 10 years of experience effectively working on agile product teams with engineers, product managers, marketing, and stakeholders. Champion of quality - Able to seamlessly transition between IC design work and leadership/strategy work to effectively push projects and features across the finish line.

Projects

Sign and send documents at lightening speed

Signing and sending documents is a core action of any professional realtor. I helped make our realtor users work less painful by designing the electronic signature mobile app which empowers users to easily sign, send and track documents. *Please contact me for password access. See More

Kin: Home insurance shopping made effortless

I helped improved Kin Insurance customer binding rates by improving the high visibility customer facing funnel that Kin customers used to bind their insurance policies. *Please contact me for password access. See More

A CRM optimized for real estate experts

At the core of this suite of products is the CRM. I had the opportunity to redesign the entire CRM without sacrificing any of the powerful capabilities that our users had grown to love. *Please contact me for password access. See More

Briq: The building blocks for construction tech users

Briq’s customer facing product suite included 4 main products. Each of the 4 products worked in synchrony with one another. Briq’s design system was built to effectively support Briq’s entire suite of products. *Please contact me for password access. See More

Work History

Product Design / UX Consultant

Brockwillsey.comCustom software design and development agency. Supporting organizations with product design, development, and user experience solutions. Complete redesign of the shopping experience for an electrical parts supplier - reduced bounce rate at checkout by 20% generating $20,000 additional monthly revenue. Redesigned onboarding user flow for a large automotive auctioneer client - decreased user setup times by 70%.

Founder / Product Operations Process Designer

Common LanguageDeveloping a product operations playbook and community. Beta coming soon commonlanguage.io.

Mentor

adplist.orgCoach and mentor product, design, and UX professionals from around the world. Helping product designers and product managers articulate their top-level career goals and the necessary steps to achieve those goals. Provide feedback to product professionals as they navigate various career challenges and projects.

User Experience Design Instructor

General AssemblyJan 2022 - Dec 2023 • 2 yrsAs part of GAs global network of expert instructors, I help shape the next generation of industry leaders by leading transformative courses and workshops on user experience and visual design. Taught design students the fundamentals of user experience design and visual design including building design systems, design thinking, building component libraries, typography, user research, prototyping, and wireframing. Helped students understand and incorporate proven problem-solving methodologies in their final case study projects.

Visual Design Instructor

General AssemblyOct 2021 - Dec 2023 • 2 yrs 3 mosAs a Visual Design Instructor, contributed to teaching design students the principles of visual design, including typography, color theory, and layout design.

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