Kevin Cigolini, Designer in Hoboken, NJ, United States
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Kevin Cigolini

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Bio

Kevin is a product designer with experience in personal entrepreneurial ventures, startups, contract work, and large billion-dollar corporations. He focuses on user-centered and behavioral iOS, Android, and web design. Kevin is a people person who enjoys collaboration and working on new and challenging projects.

Portfolio

Work Experience

Product Designer

2020 - 2021
Attentive
  • Headed a self-service initiative, increasing adoption and use by eight times within four months and exceeding KPIs while achieving user and business goals.
  • Contributed to the new innovative payment platform, conducted testing with users, and iterated in an Agile environment.
  • Created and improved design processes related to critiques, sprints, VQA, analysis, and the interviewing and onboarding experience.
  • Built and owned a DLS for a payment platform and worked closely with engineers.
Technologies: Figma, Slack, Notion, Jira, Miro

Product Designer

2019 - 2020
Stash
  • Headed 1-week design sprints from discovery and strategy stages to launching the product using the user-centered design approach, behavioral models, design studios, and user journeys.
  • Completed business and user goals while designing, conducting A/B testing, and collaborating with data science and user research teams that utilized qualitative and quantitative data.
  • Met KPI targets, increased tier upgrades by nine times, lowered billing for customer experience (CX) tickets by 4.8%, saved over ten hours a week, increased the push notification opt-in rate by 282%, and increased bank links by 7.19%.
Technologies: InVision, Sketch, Figma, Slack, Jira, Miro, Usertesting.com

UX Designer

2017 - 2019
Michael Kors
  • Partnered with the C-suite, managers, engineers, and analysts to deliver business and user goals and simplify user journeys from the point of entry to product purchases.
  • Led the UX for the KORSVIP program and handled 2-week sprint cycles. The project exceeded KPIs with 1.2 million sign-ups in the first year, drove an increase in repeat purchases, and surpassed sales goals.
  • Collaborated on leading the design of Michael Kors' first apps, which were downloaded 200,000 times and had 60,000 monthly active users, exceeding the sales goal by 100% in under six months.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe Experience Design (XD), InVision, Proto.io

UX Designer

2016 - 2017
Amazon.com
  • Designed a shopping experience for users across six websites and drove the internal CMS adoption by creating human interface guidelines, which increased component use by 19%.
  • Led projects as a key designer and collaborated with teams across New Jersey and Seattle on implementing Amazon Prime.
  • Utilized data and research to identify problems and combined UX methods and tools to create solutions.
  • Built experiences for user personalization and discovery, ensuring that relevant messages reach the right users.
Technologies: Sketch, Principle, InVision

Education

2009 - 2010

Master's Degree in Communications

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) - Savannah, GA, USA

2005 - 2009

Bachelor's Degree in Communications

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) - Savannah, GA, USA

Certifications

JUNE 2015 - PRESENT

UX Design

General Assembly

Skills

Tools

Slack, Jira, Usertesting.com, Sketch, InVision, Miro, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Proto.io, Principle, InVision Studio

Platforms

Figma, iOS

Other

User Flows, User Experience (UX), UX Research, eCommerce, UX Design, UI Design, Product Design, Strategy, Affinity Mapping, Sitemaps, Behavioral Design, Fintech, Notion, Storytelling, Wireframing, Personas, Psychology, Finance, Apps, Marketing Technology (MarTech), Visual Design

Experience

  • UI Design - 7 years
  • Product Design - 7 years
  • UX Design - 7 years
  • UX Research - 7 years
  • Visual Design - 7 years
  • eCommerce - 4 years
  • Psychology - 3 years
  • Behavioral Design - 3 years
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