Christopher Sayas

With a robust educational background, including a Bachelor's Degree in Design and History from the University of San Francisco and a User Experience Design Immersive from General Assembly, I have honed my skills in UX and product design. My professional journey includes impactful roles such as Product Designer at ModernTax, where I led design initiatives and ensured accessibility compliance, and at Fieldwire, where I conducted comprehensive user research and collaborated with cross-functional teams. At Hi Dev Mobile, I designed digital products for mobile and desktop, while at SmartThings, I translated high-level requirements into detailed user flows and visual designs. My experience also includes a significant redesign project at Alpha & Omega Semiconductor, where I revamped a legacy B2B enterprise GUI tool. My expertise spans user research, wireframing, prototyping, and collaboration with engineering and product teams to deliver intuitive and delightful user experiences.

Work History

Product Designer

ModernTaxApr 2023 - Apr 2024 • 1 yr 1 moSpearheaded design through iterating user flows, wireframes, and prototypes for qualitative user testing, research, and demos. Maintained, built, and adapted design system for accessibility and WCAG standards. Supported engineering with design documentation, flows, and early/often collaboration for handoffs. Created visual design assets like icons and logos alongside marketing material to support branding and outreach campaigns.

Product Designer

FieldwireSep 2021 - Dec 2022 • 1 yr 4 mosConducted qualitative and quantitative user research to identify long term product direction and near term feature improvements on both web and mobile (iOS and Android). Visually articulated product direction and produced low and high fidelity designs, mock ups, prototypes, wireframes, visuals, and user flows that guide engineering throughout the development lifecycle. Worked directly with cross-functional teams including product management, marketing, engineering and customer success from ideation all the way to delivery. Continuously advocate for a simple, intuitive, and delightful user experience.

UX Designer

Hi Dev MobileSep 2018 - Aug 2021 • 3 yrsDesigned digital products for both mobile and desktop spaces. Created wireframes, mockups, and prototypes through an iterative design process using Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, and InVision. Leveraged data from user research through surveys and interviews. Worked in an end-to-end design capacity from ideation, through discovery, design, and hand-off. Collaborated closely with an international team of remote developers, product managers, and designers.

UI/UX Visual Designer

SmartThingsFeb 2021 - Jul 2021 • 6 mosWorked closely with both product and engineering teams to translate high-level requirements into detailed user flows. Created wireframes, prototypes, visual designs in Figma for engineering to consume while also helping to spec out features. Worked with engineering as the owner of UX requirements and be able to answer questions or address concerns. Developed the overall layout for developer web consoles. Followed an agile process and participated in daily scrums, planning, and design reviews.

UX Designer

Alpha & Omega SemiconductorNov 2019 - Mar 2020 • 5 mosCompletely redesigned a legacy B2B enterprise GUI tool used for testing and customizing company products by both in-house and client engineering teams. Created hi-fidelity wireframes, mockups, and prototypes using Adobe XD and Figma while following an iterative design process. Collaborated with engineer, business, and design teams to test prototypes while working on product strategy and vision.

Education

General Assembly

User Experience Design Immersive2018 - 2019

University of San Francisco

Bachelor's Degree, Double Major in Design and History2014 - 2018

St. Francis High School

2010 - 2014

University of San Francisco

Bachelor's degree, Design2014 - 2018

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