Vetted Design Professionals in Illinois

“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 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.”

“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.”

“Print-shop and freelance graphic designer who has delivered end-to-end branding work (Hospice House of Hampton Roads logo) and produced a self-published recipe book using professional layout practices (style sheets/master pages), including cover design and basic food photography. Has some Adobe After Effects experience (stop-motion edits) and is actively looking to upskill into tools like Figma and lightweight marketing video workflows.”