Malia Young

Experience

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  Superica (Avalon)

  Nov 2017 - Jul 2022

  Bartender
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  Axle Club

  Oct 2022 - Jun 2023

  UI Designer

  - Cooperate with a team of five UX designers to seamlessly integrate an “Experiences” page into a B2C luxury car service website, ensuring a harmonious alignment with the existing design while adhering to industry best UX practices and standards- Work in an agile environment to create user-centered, low and high-wireframes and prototypes using Figma to align with client’s goals while maintaining their previous design aesthetic.- Develop and refine the style guide by improving the accessibility of button components and updating the fonts to a more contemporary choice, leading to a unified product.- Produce a meticulously curated developer handoff to facilitate the smooth production and implementation of the ultimate B2C product for developers and engineers. Show less

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  Whole Foods Market

  Oct 2022 - Jan 2024

  - Partner with the Store Team Leader and Associate Team Leader(s) to ensure the smooth and efficient function of a high-volume store, consistently achieving weekly sales exceeding one million dollars.- Assist in training new team members in a manner that sustains a high-performance team and minimizes turnover.- Communicate the vision and strategic plan of Whole Foods Market (WFM) ensuring all team members are well-informed and aligned to achieve the highest standard of retail execution.- Maintain awareness of volume flow to properly foster customer empathy with team members and satisfy exemplary customer service by tailoring individual customer needs.- Ensure physical inventory in store matches recorded inventory as precisely as possible to reduce financial losses and improve overall management of goods. Show less

  • Front End Supervisor

    Jun 2023 - Jan 2024

  • Front End Associate

    Oct 2022 - Jun 2023
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  Sense Co

  Jul 2023 - Feb 2024

  UX/UI Designer Lead

  - Direct an agile team of four skilled UX designers in transforming a B2C website and mobile interface, elevating organizational e-commerce efficiency, and enhancing a user-centric, visually striking design.- Cultivate an effective, modern user experience by careful heuristic evaluation and competitive analysis to revive the flatness of the original, FourSquare “Home Page” template to increase user adoption.- Craft user flows to reflect findings from user research, to tailor product design catering to distinct user groups.- Act as the main point of contact (POC) through Slack for team, client, and stakeholder strategies toward product roadmap to cohesively collaborate on the best user-centric framework.- Prepare a clean handoff file containing components, measurements, and concise annotations to lead a seamless transition for development. Show less

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  RenoAssist

  Feb 2024 - May 2024

  UX/UI Lead

  - Lead a cross-functional team to transform a B2C home renovation website in order to improve the visual hierarchy of the homepage and projects pages while also enhancing contractor and homeowner matchmaking.- Utilize strong stakeholder and team management to provide updates, address concerns, and gather feedback for iteration, leading to improved project alignment and the successful, timely completion of deliverables.- Implement strategic initiatives to streamline the user journey by removing distracting cosmetic details, enhancing accessibility, and ensuring content is easy to scan to seamlessly execute previously created user stories. Show less

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  Core Education

  Mar 2024 - now

  UX/UI Designer

  - Collaborate on the full website redesign of St. Ambrose University's website, ensuring a seamless user experience by creating a mobile-first design to improve accessibility and responsiveness.- Develop and maintain a design system, ensuring adherence to style standards for fonts, colors, and images, and bridging the gap between UX research and UI design to create developer-friendly deliverables.- Collaborate closely with the development team to effectively hand off detailed design specifications, ensuring accurate implementation and consistency across all devices and screen sizes.- Create high-quality deliverables including user flows, low to high-fidelity wireframes, and prepare designs for developer handoff, with implementation of feedback via rapid design iterations for optimal UX and product success. Show less