Resume
Product Design Experience
I lead feature design across large, evolving product ecosystems. From early discovery to shipped experiences, I focus on clarity, usability, and decision making that balances user needs with business and technical realities.
I’m a thoughtful, detail-oriented product designer who values clarity, collaboration, and momentum. I care deeply about building products that make sense to real people, working closely with partners across product and engineering, and making smart decisions within real constraints. I’m not here to chase trends. I’m here to ship work that holds up.
Design
Roles
2023 - Present
AT&T
Mobile Apps Design Team
Senior User Experience Designer
While at AT&T I lead the feature design for Top work streams like the Home Internet, Internet Troubleshooting, Services, and support others like Wireless, Security and Plans. I also During my tenure, I’ve evolved the experience as new technology and information became available to the app team.
Smart Home Manager App
MyATT App
2023
onX Maps Inc
Go - App Design Team
Senior Product Designer & Design Lead
I led the launch of a MVP hiking app. Designed user engagement through strategic UX/UI based on direct data from other OnX products and user feedback. I managed cross-functional teams and delivered user experiences that aligned with business goals, developed cohesive UX strategies across platforms/devices, and championed a human-centered design approach to ensure our solutions met both user needs and business viability.
Go Adventure App
2023
Purple Mattress
Digital Design Team
Digital Product Designer
During my time at Purple, I improved key parts of the web experience, including the Sales Promotion Homepage, product detail pages, and customer reviews, focusing on clearer layouts, better flow, and making it easier for customers to explore products and offers.
Purple Ecommerce
2021-2022
Microsoft
WXC - Design and Research - Ads
UX/UI Designer
During my time with Microsoft’s Ads team, I worked on creating new, research-backed standards for auto-generated ad templates and helped design the portal businesses use to build and publish ads across surfaces like MSN, the New Tab page, and the Windows Start menu feed.
Ad Personalization
Video Ads
Shopify Sales Channel
2020 -2021
T-Mobile
Tech Experience Design Team
User Experience Designer
I designed a wide range of interactive exhibits using touch, motion, and AR technologies, helping shape concepts into polished, functional experiences and supporting the team with creative direction and hands-on QA testing.
5G&me Center
Tech Experience
2020
Alias
Design Team
UX/UI Design Lead
As the design lead for Alias, I redesigned key flows and updated the app’s visual style, helping refine how users created and shared their digital business cards in a cleaner, more intuitive way.The Alias start up was later sold to Dot. Cards.
2019-2020
SWW
Design & Marketing Team
Junior Designer
Working at SWW.AI I focused on rebuilding and refining sections of the website. Improving layout, usability, and responsiveness across browsers while also creating supporting visuals like photos and graphics to keep the site fresh and consistent.
Web Design
2017-2019
Holodeck 3D Studio
Design & Creative
Multi-media Designer
At Holodeck 3D Studio, I refreshed the ecommerce website layouts, navigation, and HTML/CSS to make it more usable and consistent across all browsers and devices. I also supported the team by creating digital assets for marketing and social media.
Web Design
2015-2019
Freelance
Digital & Graphic Designer
Between 2015 and 2019, I freelanced as a digital designer, building and refining websites, improving user flows, and creating graphics and visual content for small businesses and personal brands.
Studies
Education
Bachelor’s degree
Applied Science in Design
Lake Washington Institute of Technology
Graduated Magna Cum Laude
Associate's degree
Applied Science in Design
Lake Washington Institute of Technology
Recommendations
What my colleagues
Daniel Hocker
Purple - Agile Delivery Manager
“His work was excellent and it showed in the attention he put into the little things like file names and structures as well as the larger design products.”
Amanda Westlake
Purple - Site Manager
“Steven has an incredible work ethic and willingness to tackle any project no matter how last minute the request may be. He's not afraid to ask questions, dive deeper, and truly get to the root of whatever problem we are trying to solve.”
Alison Watson Milbury
Purple - Site Manager
“He showed initiative, integrated seamlessly with the team, and delivered great work. He was an incredible asset to our team and I wish we could have kept him forever. “
Gary Anderson
Microsoft - Product Manager
“Steven was a key designer for our work with the Microsoft Audience Network, where he provided concept designs, facilitated user research and UX design across a wide variety of surfaces, including Edge, Microsoft Start, Bing, etc.”
Lauren Aldrich
Microsoft - Product Manager
“Steven is a competent designer. He is a powerhouse of productivity, great at executing on-demand. No matter how many high-priority requests popped up for our team, he quickly and nimbly tackled each one... He understands the user's point of view, needs, and desires. His designs are neat and clean, his files are easy to navigate (and his Figma knowledge is vast), and he knows how to set up our design content for easy consumption by stakeholders.”
