Vetted Design Professionals in the Chicago Metro

Jourdan Smith

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Executive UX design and research leader specializing in AI, voice, and digital commerce

Chicago, IL15y exp

“Product and UX leader with high-profile experience across Amazon Prime Wardrobe, Amazon Fashion, and Alexa smart home, plus consulting work for large enterprises like Hy-Vee. Particularly compelling for roles at the intersection of product, design, and AI: they’ve built zero-to-one consumer experiences, applied ML to reduce fashion returns, and led scalable UX systems across complex ecosystems while navigating heavyweight enterprise politics.”

“Product/UX designer with hands-on experience designing AI-driven products end-to-end, including an AI shopping assistant (Stylaire) with multimodal conversational search (text/voice/image). Uses rapid prototyping and usability testing to simplify complex flows (e.g., reducing filter overload via progressive disclosure) and collaborates closely with engineers with working knowledge of HTML/CSS and component systems.”

Jiayi Huang

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Junior Product/UX Designer specializing in FinTech and conversational AI

Chicago, IL2y exp

“Founding product designer at a startup building RealSpend, an AI-powered fintech product centered on conversational decision support (contextual insights and in-flow actions). Also designed the companion app for Lasso Loop, an in-home recycling appliance, translating an industrial process into a warm, kitchen-friendly UX using layered information architecture and progressive disclosure, with strong design-system alignment to React/Tailwind/Ant Design engineering stacks.”

“Product/UX designer with hands-on front-end implementation experience who has worked across both consumer and enterprise contexts, including a veterinary hospital funnel redesign and an AML fraud detection system. Stands out for tying UX decisions to measurable business outcomes, including a 17% reduction in dropoff after redesigning package selection and validating changes through usability testing.”

“Marketing/brand designer with lead design experience on Aurelio's Pizza creative (including a responsive website redesign that improved mobile engagement and 'Order Now' clicks). Also contributed to maintaining and scaling a Figma design system at Cars, upgrading components for Auto Layout consistency and enabling high-volume, modular campaign production with strong async collaboration (Slack/Figma/Jira).”

“Lead creative who built and extended the NRCA PRO initiative identity on top of an earlier corporate identity system they created, producing all associated print/digital assets and supporting a successful market launch. Operates with strong process discipline (brief-as-North-Star, proofing checks/balances), high-volume production workflows (Adobe + Campaign Monitor, Teams/OneDrive, traffic management), and multi-format video planning for efficient cross-platform delivery.”

“Graphic Designer for a large auto dealership group responsible for all web and print creative, including taking photos and writing copy while adhering to strict brand guidelines across 8 vehicle manufacturers. Built a high-volume template library (200+ templates) to scale output across web/social/print, and produced ongoing video content for 10 YouTube channels using Premiere Pro and CapCut.”

“Product designer with experience owning healthcare mobile app redesigns end-to-end, from sketches and user flows through developer handoff and post-launch iteration. Has worked closely with QA, engineering, and customer support to improve engagement and build accessible experiences for both younger and older users, and is currently redesigning event pages in an Agile coaching platform environment.”