Product Designer Design
Resume:
JOYCE D’APRILE
PROFILE
Brings *+ years in product design, UX research, marketing, project management and business growth. Brings Fortune 500 company experience in tech strategy, marketing, sales, and design innovation.
EXPERIENCE
Fferrone Design, Product Designer Chicago — Sept. 2024 - Nov. 2024
• Conducting marketing research studies on recent glassware and furniture product lines with over 35,000 monthly ad. reach via Instagram. Analyzing existing sales data to determine products and services generating revenue.
• PPC and SEM expert in training. With adjustments in auto-campaign and friend invites, advertising ad reach increased 5.4k people/day. Building my personal marketing and advertising design work as well.
WasteNot Compost Chicago, Sr. Product Designer Chicago — Mar - May 2025
• Designing mailers for delivery to Chicago residents in Figma, OpenAI for icons.
• Web development and design re-vamp recommendations in Figma and HTML. UX Designer & Researcher at Accenture Chicago — April 2022 - Jan 2024
• Experience designer & researcher to Fortune 500 companies in healthcare, AWS tech, and sustainability. Aligned to legacy Fjord Design Consultancy, London.
• Delivered insights on consumers through primary DTC research using ‘dScout’ for an e-Commerce shopping platform. Increased customer satisfaction by 35%.
• Created UI wireframes, spatial and UX design using Figma, Sketch, and Miro. Product Design UX Research, mHUB Chicago — August 2021 - April 2022
• Designed, developed & marketed a CPG device for a Northshore manufacturing company.
• Developed an app and UX designs for a University of Chicago, Booth MBA student startup using wearables and AI to improve elder caregiving. Research Assistant, Northwestern University Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering & Argonne National Lab — January 2019 - August 2020
• Studied under Dr. Jennifer Dunn of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department and Argonne National Laboratory Partnership with Northwestern.
• Collected a data set for use in life-cycle analysis on energy consumption and material efficiency and analyzed data from Argonne National Laboratory's GREET (Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy Use in Technology). Product Design Intern, Motorola Solutions Inc. Chicago — Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
• Integrated an IoT product with a digital prototype using Sketch and InVision. AWARDS
• Water bottle collection design for Owala, Gatorade, Glossier, and Nalgene included on my portfolio. Acclaimed by fellow Northwestern engineers and designers in Chicago, NYC, and Los Angeles inspired by UIC Professor Sung Jang. User Experience Designer
Education:
B.A.Sc. in Manufacturing &
Design Engineering (3.3)
Northwestern University
Highest Honors Diploma
Saint Ignatius College
Preparatory of Chicago
Skills:
- B2B Marketing Strategy
- Pricing Analysis
- Economic Modeling
- Marketing Strategy
- Instagram Analytics
- Advertising Strategy
- Data analysis
- Corporate research
- Business Insight
- Executive Communications
- Powerpoint
- Slides
- Figma (for App. Web &
Software)
- Research
- Graphic Design
- Sketch
- Miro
- InVision
- Excel
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Customer Experience
- Agile Methodologies
*************@*****.***
Contact this candidate