Vetted Design Professionals

Tasmeena Maryam

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Senior Design Lead specializing in brand strategy and multi-channel digital campaigns

Atlanta, GA8y exp

“Senior Art Director/design lead focused on high-polish marketing creative and brand systems, spanning a packaging relaunch campaign and a B2B rebrand for a complex, data-driven product (ROIOn). Experienced building scalable Figma design systems and modular templates that enable rapid iteration and late-stage changes without quality drift, plus short-form social video production using After Effects/Premiere/CapCut in fully remote, async workflows.”

Federico Costa

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Senior Game Designer/Producer specializing in multiplayer F2P live-service systems

Barcelona, Spain14y exp

“Game designer who led two shipped cross-platform soccer titles (Monkers League / Champs), owning core mode and control design across mobile and PC (controller + mouse/keyboard). Drove a major gameplay pivot from controlling a full team to single-character play and tuned controls via playtests to expand appeal beyond traditional sports fans, while also building engagement systems like season passes, tournaments, and live events amid repeated platform shifts.”

“Product designer/hardware prototyper building Saccade (VR headset attachment for Apple Vision Pro) to enable earlier, lower-cost Alzheimer's detection via eye-tracking and on-device CV/ML; designed a custom biocompatible snap-on light-shield replacement with integrated cameras/PCB after Apple camera-data restrictions. Also has biomedical manufacturing experience (major fixture-driven throughput gains) and leads a 160-member Assistive Technology Club sponsored by Apple and Google.”

Stella Zeng

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Mid-Level Product Designer specializing in AI-powered UX and accessibility

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Product designer focused on complex, rules-heavy workflows, with recent end-to-end ownership of Casehero.ai (AI-assisted tooling for immigration lawyers) including interaction model, visual language, and a reusable design system. Uses deep field research (shadowing, live sessions) to simplify overwhelming experiences and reports ~70% reduction in manual effort/time after redesigns; also has accessibility-focused work on Captify for deaf and hard-of-hearing users.”

Todd List

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Senior Creative Designer specializing in performance marketing and scalable visual systems

Warren, MI7y exp

“Marketing creative/designer with experience producing enterprise digital campaign assets (General Motors) and statewide public awareness campaigns (MDHHS, reaching 100K+ residents). Specializes in scalable, system-driven production—building tokenized Figma design systems and modular templates plus a fast CapCut workflow to ship high-volume, on-brand variants quickly with strong clarity and accessibility.”

“Candidate declined to proceed with the text-based/AI screening format and did not share portfolio details, stating a preference to walk a human through their work and assess role/culture fit in a two-way conversation.”

“Product/UX designer with end-to-end redesign experience on the Discover Mobile Banking App, focused on rebuilding interaction models and a WCAG 2.1-compliant visual system to improve accessibility outcomes (including Lighthouse score). Also redesigned a restaurant ordering/management SaaS (RestroZap), translating complex operational and configuration workflows into guided, non-technical user experiences through field research, progressive disclosure, and iterative prototyping in Figma.”

“Game/content designer with experience at EA and on a mobile title (Ultimate Fishing), owning PvP mode UX/gameplay improvements and building UE5 Blueprint systems (state machine + modular weapon/ability architecture) to support multi-developer teams. Also designed College Football 2025/2026 challenge content grounded in real football culture and research, improved broken data-driven toolsets via spreadsheet formula work, and partnered with economy to rebalance rewards by rapidly shipping additional challenges.”

“Game designer with shipped experience creating and tuning alternative modes for a beer-pong-inspired title (Bounce Shot), including convention playtests that turned modes into fan favorites and sparked community-run tournaments. Also contributed to late-game retention improvements on Deer Hunter 2014 by increasing mission variety through themed animal randomization, generating organic buzz across forums and social channels. Prototypes quickly in UE5 Blueprints and writes implementation-ready mode specs with UX/animation/economy considerations.”

Bria Marks

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Entry-Level Game Designer & Gameplay Programmer specializing in Unity and Unreal Engine 5

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Game designer with hands-on experience shipping and tuning a branching memory-deletion narrative system in Unity (Echoes of Memory), focused on creating emotional tension through meaningful player choice. Also builds and iterates cooperative level layouts in Unreal Engine 5 with ~1-week idea-to-playtest cycles, collaborating closely with teammates on Blueprint implementation.”

Scott Stevens

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Mid-Level Level Designer specializing in Unreal Engine and multiplayer arenas

Nottingham, UK6y exp

“UK-based level/game mode designer who shipped Sniper Elite VR: Winter Warrior, owning multiple campaign missions and the Sniper Duel mode end-to-end. Strong Unreal Engine 5 Blueprint prototyping (built a playable 4v4 King-of-the-Hill mode with dynamic spawns in about a week) and experienced in VR performance tradeoffs for Oculus Quest while collaborating closely with engineering.”

Kevin Hand

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Senior Game Designer and Producer specializing in 3D/VR interactive experiences

Chico, CA11y exp

“Lead game designer/producer who shipped a Fortnite TMNT-themed rogue-like dungeon crawler, owning progression, economy, and tuning. Improved retention measurably by replacing a linear points system with an exponential economy formula, increasing playtime by ~50%, and iterated quickly via playtests (mini-boss pacing, weapon drop-rate balance). Also built UE Blueprints for FPS animation montages and state transitions to address clunky movement feedback.”

“Senior designer with experience delivering premium, performance-oriented marketing creative for brands including BFGoodrich, Modelo, Corona, Coway, and HydraFacial. Builds scalable Figma design systems and modular template frameworks for high-volume multi-channel output (web, email, paid, decks, events), and also produces short-form CapCut videos optimized for major social platforms. Has worked fully remote since 2017 and has executed full Spanish-language adaptations of campaigns to expand audience reach.”