Corey Lewis
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Toptal member since July 26, 2017
Corey is a passion-driven senior UI/UX designer specializing in crafting results-driven websites and mobile apps. Known for modern, forward-thinking interfaces, he has designed for companies including Toyota, Pfizer, Disney, DoorDash, Roche, Genentech, Elevance Health, California Department of Education, and Yosemite National Park. Corey's agile product design experience drives high-impact digital solutions for startups and enterprises alike.
Experience
- Interface Design - 15 years
- User Interface (UI) - 15 years
- UI Design - 15 years
- User Experience (UX) - 15 years
- Design Systems - 15 years
- SaaS Design - 15 years
- Figma - 15 years
- Product Design - 15 years
Portfolio
Work Experience
Senior Product Designer
Freelance
- Led end-to-end product design engagements for startups through Fortune 100 companies, delivering high-impact digital experiences across web, mobile, and SaaS platforms.
- Partnered directly with executive stakeholders to translate business goals into strategic product solutions, driving measurable improvements in user engagement and conversion.
- Designed and launched custom SaaS platforms across multiple industries, simplifying complex workflows and improving usability for both internal teams and end users.
- Built scalable design systems and component libraries for enterprise clients, increasing design consistency and accelerating product development cycles.
- Directed UX strategy and execution across high-profile brands, including DoorDash, Disney, Toyota, and National Parks, ensuring alignment between user needs and business objectives.
- Conducted user research, usability testing, and heuristic evaluations to uncover actionable insights, leading to more intuitive and effective product experiences.
- Transformed underperforming digital experiences into modern, user-centric interfaces, improving overall product perception and customer satisfaction.
- Managed cross-functional collaboration between design, engineering, and product teams, ensuring seamless delivery from concept through launch.
- Delivered consistently high-quality results by maintaining strong client communication, proactive problem-solving, and a commitment to exceeding expectations.
- Established long-term client partnerships by acting as a trusted design advisor, helping organizations scale their digital products and elevate their user experience maturity.
Senior Design Lead
Pfizer - Customer Experience (CX) Design team
- Led the end-to-end redesign of internal financial and operational dashboards, improving data accessibility and reducing time to insight by around 30% across cross-functional teams.
- Transformed legacy, fragmented reporting tools into a centralized platform, enabling a single source of truth for financial planning, R&D insights, and competitive intelligence.
- Defined and implemented a scalable design system for internal enterprise tools, accelerating design-to-development workflows and improving consistency across multiple product teams.
- Identified critical UX inefficiencies in financial workflows and redesigned user flows, resulting in a 25% increase in task completion efficiency for internal stakeholders.
- Partnered with product, engineering, and business leaders to align on product strategy, shaping a dashboard-driven experience that supports enterprise-level decision-making.
- Designed intuitive data visualization frameworks that simplified complex financial datasets, improving usability and reducing cognitive load for executive and analyst users.
- Established standardized interaction patterns and reusable components, reducing redundant design efforts and increasing scalability across multiple internal platforms.
- Led stakeholder workshops and discovery sessions to uncover pain points and opportunities, directly influencing roadmap priorities and product direction.
- Elevated the overall UX maturity of internal financial tools by introducing modern design principles, improving adoption and engagement across business units.
- Collaborated cross-functionally to deliver user-centric solutions that enhanced operational efficiency and enabled more data-driven decision-making at scale.
Senior UI/UX Product Designer
DoorDash
- Discovered main issues and pain points with the financials section, particularly around financial reconciliation. Strategized solutions to improve the user experience and the relationship between restaurants and DoorDash.
- Created reusable design system templates for email templates, PDF documents, invoicing, and order fulfillment.
- Reimagined the user experience for opting in to receive capital and cash advances.
- Contributed to the DoorDash design system components in Figma.
- Supported all teams in strategizing and improving solutions for the restaurant user experience when managing their DoorDash account.
Lead Product Designer
Anthem [Now Elevance] - AI
- Led the design and delivery of enterprise healthcare platforms, improving user experience across clinical, member, and provider workflows, resulting in an approximately 25% increase in task efficiency.
- Redesigned complex healthcare applications to simplify navigation and information architecture, reducing user friction and improving overall usability scores across key product areas.
- Partnered with product, engineering, and clinical stakeholders to define product strategy and deliver user-centric solutions aligned with regulatory and business requirements.
- Developed scalable design systems and reusable component libraries, increasing design consistency and accelerating development cycles across multiple product teams.
- Optimized member and provider experiences by leveraging data insights and usability testing, contributing to improved engagement and higher satisfaction scores.
- Led end-to-end UX processes, from discovery and research through design execution and delivery, ensuring alignment with both user needs and business goals.
- Streamlined workflows for healthcare operations teams by redesigning key tools, reducing manual effort, and improving operational efficiency.
- Conducted user research and usability testing with healthcare professionals and members, translating insights into actionable design improvements.
- Established UX best practices and design standards across teams, elevating the overall quality and maturity of digital products within the organization.
- Collaborated cross-functionally to deliver accessible, compliant, and intuitive healthcare solutions, ensuring alignment with HIPAA and accessibility standards (WCAG).
Senior Designer & Project Manager
Flagship Design
- Designed a medical tracking platform that collected and documented all adverse events related to medication intake.
- Managed and designed an internal portal project for biotech companies and medical corporations—Genentech and Roche.
- Provided UI/UX design solutions and recommendations for redesigning the Walt Disney shareholder website.
- Participated in the UI/UX design of the new Harley-Davidson website.
- Provided UI/UX design solutions for an internal shuttle scheduler application.
Project Manager and Lead UI/UX Designer
Digital Gear, Inc.
- Managed a team of designers and developers to create award-winning websites and mobile applications.
- Acted as project manager and lead designer of the Yosemite Tourism Bureau project and website.
- Led UI/UX design and project management of the California Grocers Association annual conference.
- Managed the California Capital Airshow website project as the design director coordinator.
- Led UI/UX design of the Sacramento Convention Center website project, a combination of three separate sites.
- Designed the UI/UX for the California State Fair website.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Web Design
Sacramento State University - Sacramento, California, USA
Associate's Degree in Web Design
Sacramento City College - Sacramento, California, USA
Certifications
Senior UX/UI/Product Designer + AI Career Program
Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)
Google UX Design Professional
Website & Computer Science Certification
Sacramento State University
UX/UI Design Specialist
Sacramento State University
Skills
Tools
Apple HealthKit, Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop CC, Zeplin, Adobe CC, Principle, Miro, Figma Component Library, Spreadsheets
Industry Expertise
Exercise & Fitness, Health, Education, Insurance, Fitness, Real Estate, Travel & Leisure, Education Technology (Edtech), Healthcare, Health & Wellness, Pharmaceuticals
Platforms
WordPress, iOS, Android, Figma, Web, Mobile, WooCommerce
Other
Business Design, Business Strategy, Design Leadership, Startups, Early-stage Startups, High-tech Startups, Ideation, Consumer-facing Product Design, Digital Product Design, Premium Content Subscriptions, Research, Research Methods, UX Research, Research Analysis, User Research, UI Research, Web UI, Subscriptions, Web UX, Web UX Design, Web App UX, Mobile Apps, Mobile UI, Mobile UX, Mobile UX Design, Mobile App UI, Mobile App Design, Wireframing, UX Wireflows, Prototyping, Iterative Design, UI Design, UX Design, iOS UX Design, Web App UI, Web App Design, Web Layout, Digital Layout, Layout Design, Mobile UI Design, Web UI Design, Dark UIs, Innovation, Innovative UX, User Personas, User Stories, UX Flows, UX Prototyping, Design Sprints, Interaction Design (IxD), Interactive Design, Interactive Web Design, Market Research & Analysis, Video Calling, Video Conferencing, Personas, Marketplaces, Marketplace Design, Marketplace Platforms, Visual Design, Shopping Carts, Iconography, Portals, Reporting System Design, Online Tracking Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Analytics, Data Quality Analysis, Account Management, App Design, Fitness Trackers, Booking, Booking Systems, Booking UX, Project Planning, Project Design, Aviation Billing, Platforms, Platform Design, Platform Building, Content Management Systems (CMS), Stripe Payments, UX Strategy, Health Insurance, Medical Applications, CRM Design, CRM Systems, Web Applications, Web Portals, Enterprise Design, Agile, Information Architecture (IA), Form Design, Web Forms, UI Design Standards & Best Practices, Best Practices in Design, Interface Design, User Flows, Rapid Prototyping, Google Material Design, iOS App Design, Android App Design, eCommerce, Layout, Payment Gateways, Credit Card Processing, Insurance APIs, Wellness, Apps, Statistics, Aviation Projects, Dashboards, User Interface (UI), SaaS Design, Dashboard Design, Database Applications, App UX, App UI, Responsive UI, User Experience (UX), iOS UI Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), E-learning, Technical Design, Edtech Design, Design, Instructional Design, Web Design, Product Design, Responsive, Responsive Design, Responsive Layout, Responsive Web Apps, Responsive UX Design, Responsive Frameworks, SaaS, Enterprise SaaS, Software as a Service (SaaS), Web Dashboards, Analytical Dashboards, Interactive Dashboards, Financial Design, Financial Reporting Dashboards, Solar, Commercial Real Estate, Residential Real Estate, Biotechnology, Pharmacy, Pharmacology, Fintech, Finance, Financial Data, Scheduling, Task Scheduling, Job Schedulers, Medical Software, Graphical User Interface (GUI), Software Interfaces, Immersive Experiences, Customer Experience, B2B, B2B2C, B2C, Enterprise, Leadership, Enterprise Systems, Enterprise Software, Enterprise System Design, Design Systems, Data Visualization, UX Leadership, Design Thinking, UX Testing, UI Testing, User Testing, Heuristic Evaluation, Heuristic Analysis, Portal Design, Portal Websites, Interactive Prototypes, Graphic Design, Websites, UI Prototyping, High-fidelity Prototypes, High-fidelity Mockups, User Validation, Content Strategy, Product Development, Financials, A/B Testing, User Experience Strategy, Strategy, Intranets, User Interviews, Social Networks, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), Functional Design, Mockups, Usability Testing, User-centered Design (UCD), Web App Testing, Adobe Creative Cloud, Complex Application User Interfaces (UI), Complex Web Systems, Science, User Experience Design, Mobile Design, Mobile Web Design, Mobile-first Design, Usability, Web Usability, Workflow Design, User Journey Maps, Web Architecture, UX Architecture, Workflow, User Journeys, User Workflows, AI Design, AI-powered Product Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Chatbots, AI Chatbots, AI Prompts, Agentic AI, Conversational AI, Agentic Frameworks, Chatbot Conversation Design, Conversational Design, Voice UI Design, Large Language Models (LLMs), Conversational UI, Conversational UX, Internal Apps, Design Strategy, Service Design, Direct to Consumer (D2C), Matching Systems, Audits, K-12 Education, Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS), Component Design, Tailwind CSS, Tailwind UI, Accessibility, Design Management, Journey Mapping, People Management, WCAG 2, WCAG 3, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Experience Design, Prompt Engineering, Brand Design, Visual Brand Guidelines, Tracking Systems, Healthcare Software, Aviation, B2B Marketing, Business to Business (B2B), Business to Consumer (B2C), Empathy, AI-assisted UX, Human-centred Design, Human-centered AI, UX Management, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Cognitive Science, User Psychology, Object-oriented Design (OOD), Object-oriented UX (OOUX), Product Management, Project Lifecycle
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