Vetted Design Professionals in California

Gregory Koteles

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Director-level Art Director & Web Designer specializing in UX/UI, branding, and growth marketing

Los Angeles, CA26y exp

“Marketing-focused web and creative designer who ships conversion-oriented Shopify and WordPress redesigns, pairing premium UX/UI craft with practical SEO and measurement (metadata, analytics/KPI tracking, Search Console). Comfortable operating under strict brand guidelines (e.g., Microsoft/Disney) while iterating quickly with growth/product partners, and also produces lightweight, multi-format marketing videos in Adobe Premiere Pro.”

“Product/UX designer with experience digitizing Penske trucking operations and Ridecell fleet lifecycle/workshop orchestration systems. Designs complex, high-liability industrial workflows using a state-driven interaction model and a calm, high-clarity visual language, backed by targeted field research with drivers and ops teams and strong collaboration with engineers (React/Tailwind, Storybook, code-linked prototypes).”

Penny Asawadilockchai

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Mid-Level Product Designer specializing in human-centered UX/UI

Oakland, CA4y exp

“Product/UX designer with end-to-end experience building a borrower-facing intake platform that coordinates AI automation and human review across borrowers, loan officers, and processors. Emphasizes explicit system states, clear handoffs, and exception-based visibility to increase trust in high-stakes underwriting/document workflows, using Figma prototyping and close engineering collaboration to ship feasible, scalable interactions.”

“Growth creative specialist who builds and iterates high-volume, platform-native paid social ads for an AI app (Smarter Chat), using performance analytics (hook/hold rates) to engineer creative improvements. Developed a POV/"hidden camera" confrontation concept around infidelity that achieved a $2 CPA and influenced broader creative strategy toward more authentic, unscripted-feeling social content.”

“Senior product designer focused on high-polish growth/marketing creative across social and web, citing work on "Red Bean" (social app promotion) and "House to Home" (website + AI feature/shipping launch). Emphasizes scalable systems—Figma foundations/tokens + auto-layout components and modular CapCut templates—to produce high-volume, multi-format assets quickly while maintaining brand consistency and clarity.”

“Marketing-focused designer producing high-polish brand and performance creative across web and video, including a Lucyd x Nautica landing page aimed at improving conversion by 10%. Builds scalable Figma design systems and modular creative frameworks for high-volume output, and collaborates remotely with cross-functional teams using Workfront, Slack, and Loom.”

“Marketing creative with 11 years of experience spanning high-polish print catalogues and scalable digital/video campaigns. Has led fashion catalogue shoots through to print-ready layouts, and also builds Figma design systems and modular template frameworks to produce high-volume assets without brand drift. Comfortable collaborating remotely with UA/growth/product teams and delivering cross-platform video using CapCut, After Effects, Blender, and Premiere.”