Jamal Nichols

Product Designer in San Francisco, CA, United States

Member since July 3, 2019

Jamal is a German-American design expert with over a decade of experience working with global brands like Google, Wells Fargo, and WalmartLabs. His expertise ranges from interaction and product design to spearheading comprehensive design projects and beyond.

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Digital Design

Kyte Rental Cars
- UX Design
- Mobile UI Design
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- Wireframing
- Mobile Design
- Workshop Facilitation
- Writing & Editing
- Mobile UX Design
BMW Global Search and Accessories Finder
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- UX Design
- Stakeholder Management
- Web UI Design
- Web Applications
- Visual Design
- Wireframing
- Axure
Walmart Savings Catcher
- Web UX
- UX Design
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- Stakeholder Management
- UX Workshops
- Design Thinking
- Visual Design
- Mobile UI Design
- Mobile UX Design
Truth About Design
- Service Design
- Video Editing
- UX Mentoring
- UX Design
- Mobile UI Design
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- eCommerce UX
- E-learning
- Visual Design
- Writing & Editing
- WordPress
- Mobile UX Design
Equinix
- UX Leadership
- UX Mentoring
- Design Reviews
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- Wireframing
- Visual Design
- Mobile Design
- Leadership
- Lean UX
- Team Leadership
- User Experience (UX)
- Design Sprints
Wells Fargo
- UX Design
- Mobile UI Design
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- Mobile UX Design

Employment

Senior Product Designer
2019 - PRESENT
Facebook
- Helped build the enterprise-side software that Facebook recruiters and coordinators use to schedule the many candidates interviewed every year.
Technologies: MURAL, Figma, Sketch
Principal
2018 - PRESENT
Truth About Design
- Created the design industry's fastest growing magazine and online learning platform. The market response was clear: 90.000 reads per month just three months after launch.
- Handled branding, service design, wireframes, interaction design, visual design, and hiring and sourcing a video production team.
- Created an eCommerce and e-learning experience to allow people to buy and watch courses online.
Technologies: WordPress, eCommerce, E-learning, CSS, HTML, Sketch, Figma
Principal Product Designer
2017 - 2018
Equinix
- Helped spearhead the creation of a design practice from scratch at Equinix.
- Coordinated with recruiters to interview candidates, do screening calls, and lead in-person interviews.
- Defined product strategy and keeping the holistic design vision on course across all touchpoints and all new initiatives.
- Socialized design and educated stakeholders on the importance of design.
Technologies: OmniGraffle, Axure, Figma, Sketch
UX Design Immersive Instructor
2016 - 2017
General Assembly
- Taught the ten-week, full-time UX design immersive course to over 100 students. The top 25% of students all got jobs within four weeks at great companies.
- Created and taught two-hour lectures, mentored during 1:1 time, gave design feedback on a regular basis, and gave career advice and resources.
- Got very high NPS ratings.
Technologies: Paper Prototyping, Axure, Figma, Sketch, Teaching
Senior Product Designer
2015 - 2016
Google
- Used IA and user flows to give the team clarity on all user journeys across the product.
- Ran design sprints to make fast progress and get consensus from key people.
- Redesigned notifications, first minor, then major, resulting in an overwhelmingly positive reception.
- Created motion design explorations to help people understand the brand.
Technologies: InVision, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch
Senior Interaction Designer
2014 - 2015
Wells Fargo
- Redesigned parts of the desktop and mobile site according to brand standards.
- Led meetings with stakeholders in Charlotte, NC to get consensus on content strategy and design direction.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Axure
Product Design Lead
2013 - 2014
Walmart Labs
- Led product design on Classrooms by Walmart, a direct competitor to teacherlists.com.
- Led product design on Savings Catcher, Walmart’s biggest initiative of 2014.
- Connected across multiple teams to get consensus and move things forward.
- Led product design for an interactive nursery, where we worked together with external companies and internal stakeholders to create a page where people spent an average of 15 minutes.
Technologies: Visio, OmniGraffle, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Axure
Interaction Designer
2011 - 2012
BMW Group
- Provided interaction and visual design for all search pages on the European redesign of bmw.de.
- Ran meetings with BMW’s stakeholders and iterated on the feedback we got from them.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Axure

Education

Certificate in Virtual & Augmented Reality
2017 - 2018
Upload VR - San Francisco
Master's Degree in Media System Design
2004 - 2009
University of Darmstadt - Darmstadt

Experience

UX Design12 years
Interaction Design (IxD)12 years
Product Thinking9 years
UX Mentoring6 years
UX Workshops5 years
Teaching4 years
Augmented Reality (AR)3 years
Figma2 years

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