Hi, I’m Evan!

I’m a Product Designer who is obsessed with nature. I’ve been building first-of-a-kind digital products for 14 years.

My Wheelhouse

Discovery

I define the user experience with deliverables – app diagrams, wireframes, prototypes and specs.

UX Design

I define the user experience with deliverables – app diagrams, wireframes, prototypes and specs.

User Research

I will validate product-market fit, discover pain points, gather requirements, and test usability.

Discovery

I define the user experience with deliverables – app diagrams, wireframes, prototypes and specs.

UX Design

I define the user experience with deliverables – app diagrams, wireframes, prototypes and specs.

User Research

I will validate product-market fit, discover pain points, gather requirements, and test usability.

Experience

Senior UX Designer (first design hire)

Syllo
JUN 2024 – present (seed – Series A equivalent)

Syllo is the first end-to-end litigation platform with agentic AI document review.

As the first full time design hire in a rapidly evolving startup environment, I overhauled the look and feel of the platform across a half dozen different applications. I also established best practices for design handoff, user testing, QA and helped grow the Product Department from 3 to 8 people.

Senior UX Designer

Dom & Tom
FEB 2019 – DEC 2023

Product Agency working with startups, gov and nonprofits.

Lead UX Design and strategy for clients, from kickoff to launch. Working with 2-3 clients at a time, I lead Discovery and Design phases, then worked with developers to estimate, implement and QA. Figma became an essential tool for me here, especially for clickable prototypes and building design libraries. Increasingly I also filled the role of visual designer.

Contract UX Designer

ustwo
OCT – DEC 2018 (Seed)

Product Studio working with pharma clients and big tech.

Concept development of next-gen apps for T2 Diabetes patients for major pharma client. Unique challenges included learning about diabetes lifestyle changes, hardware and software for T2D patients, FDA requirements for apps as medical devices, and leveraging latest medical and academic research on habit change and gamification to propose clinically validated design solutions.

SENIOR UX Designer

Motivate Design
OCT 2017 – OCT 2018

Product Agency working with pharma, startups and big tech.

Lead UX design efforts for clients and project managed as needed. Ran discovery workshops for corporate and startup clients and travelled domestically to lead kickoffs and user testing sessions. Worked with stakeholders to discover requirements, turn them into wireframes, prototypes and high fidelity mockups. Worked with Otsuka Pharmaceuticals on Abilify MyCite, the first FDA-approved app, wearable & medication combo for Schizophrenia & Bipolar 2.

SENIOR UX Designer

Ordergroove
AUG 2016 – SEPT 2017 (Series B)

The original ecommerce subscription platform.

Lead usability testing, designed wireframes and high fidelity comps, and wrote functionality specs. Worked with product owners, developers and data scientists to build new features & optimize our products based on user behavior and devised product roadmap.

UX Consultant

B&H Photo
DEC 2015 – AUG 2017

World famous camera and electronics store in NYC.

Optimized responsive design behavior across an award-winning ecommerce site. Redesigned main nav header, filtering UI, and live chat / user feedback flow for multiple breakpoints. Trained a 9 person UX team in Jira and Sketch. Built Google Analytics dashboards to continuously monitor user engagement and conversions, and compare that to customer feedback. Redesigned static pages and features across the site.

UI & UX DESIGNER

The Orchard
2010 – 2015 (acquired by Sony 2015)

Independent music and film distributor.

Lead UI and UX design on the client platform (and admin backend) with 15,000+ active users. Worked directly with leadership, product managers, other designers and tech leads to create user flows, clickable prototypes, and hifi mockups. Lead UI audits and updates, wrote and maintained UI style guide.

Skills

UX Deliverables
  • Prototyping
  • Wireframing
  • Developer Handoff & Documentation
  • Design Systems
  • Visual Design
  • UX Microcopy
  • Brand-aligned Design
UX Research
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Product Briefs & User Stories
  • User Flows & Journey Mapping
  • Usability Studies
  • User Interviewing
  • Product Analytics
People Skills
  • Mentoring junior designers
  • Leading design teams
  • Working with executive stakeholders
  • Design Workshops
  • Agile & Lean UX Practices
Technical
  • Figma
  • Adobe CC
  • Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub
  • Writing Automated Tests
  • Fluent in CSS, HTML
  • Familiar with React, Vue, Angular
  • WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Framer
  • Mailchimp
  • Web hosting & Domain management