Carly Lugus

About

I’m a product designer based in New York. I've had proven success in collaborating with a wide-range of teams to create exceptional product experiences. I love all things design, startups, and learning!

Experience

• Product Designer · Patch.com06-01-2022

  ● Transformed an outdated, ad-ridden email newsletter product into a modern web platform. ● Served as the main point of contact for users and business owners, utilizing key insights to overhaul the business, event, and social categories—increasing usability and overall revenue for Patch's promoted products. ● Led design vision as the sole product designer, advocating for usability, consistency and analytics within each product decision while balancing a variety of projects, user research, and stakeholder opinions.

• UI/UX Design Consultant · The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson03-01-2021 – 05-01-2024

  ● Designed 10+ internal data platforms, including the JRDDS Portal and Med.ai. ● Created complex mockups and prototypes, producing production-ready user interfaces across all pages. ● Managed the full-product lifecycle for many teams with Janssen, collaborating with stakeholders from ideation and development, to production—abiding by all extensive brand guidelines and accessibility standards.

• Product Design Consultant · Redstar Ventures07-01-2020 – 06-01-2022

  ● Conducted user research, facilitated feedback sessions, and delivered production-ready web and mobile designs for each startup within the venture foundry (Kinto, Money Experience, and Encoder). ● Headed an in-app design overhaul for a new D2C model in relation to Kinto's current B2B model, redesigning all screens and highlighting the greatest value components within a consumer-first application.

• Marketing & Design Consultant · Massachusetts Institute of Technology09-01-2019 – 04-01-2022

  ● Contracted within the MIT EECS, Jameel Clinic, and RLE departments at MIT as a retained graphic designer. ● Produced all corporate, social, and graphic materials upon request, and designed a variety of faculty and event-based websites on an as-needed basis.

• Design & Marketing Intern · Dv0105-01-2019 – 08-01-2019

  ● Coordinated a full revamp and redesign of DV01's marketing assets, including all product explainer pages, to make each product's complex financial copy simple for external stakeholders.

Education

• Babson CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

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