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Lisa Kovacevich

Verified Expert in Design

Product Designer

Location

San Francisco, CA, United States

Toptal Member Since

May 28, 2020

Lisa is a product designer with over ten years of experience in digital design. Notable clients include Life360, Folio, Zumper, and eBay. She has helped companies increase sales, optimize processes, and deliver user-centered experiences. Lisa is proficient in the entire design process from strategy, user research, prototyping, to final UX, and UI. Her expertise includes small to mid-stage startups for consumer and business-facing apps.

Sketch User Interface (UI)User Experience (UX)UI Design UX Design Wireframing Prototyping eCommerce Product Design User Flows UI Research UX Flows User Research iOS UI Design Android App Design

Work Experience

Contractor/Freelance

2006 - PRESENT

Lisa Kovacevich Design

Planned and conducted user research interviews for customer development projects.
Led user research synthesis sessions.
Led design workshops and ideation sessions.
Created prototypes for research and final designs.
Provided documentation for user flows and final design work using Sketch, Figma, Principle, and InVision.
Worked with clients such as Zumper, Folio, Glimpse, DexOne, Brighter, Rent.com, Campus Explorer, and Track Your Hours, to name a few.

Technologies: Chrome Extensions, Adobe, InVision, Sketch, Figma, Web, Mobile

Senior Product Designer

2016 - 2019

Amitree

Developed the end-to-end product design for Folio. Folio is an email assistant AI and productivity tool for real estate professionals who use Gmail.
Recruited and conducted hundreds of user interviews for various projects at Amitree.
Designed and wrote an onboarding email series for new users and customers.
Facilitated design workshops and ideation sessions for product design.
Designed team product and contributed to the new SaaS pricing strategy based on research insights.

Technologies: InVision, Sketch

UX Lead

2012 - 2015

Life360

Became the first design hire responsible for end-to-end product design for the Android and IOS apps.
Developed a user research process and ran the user research sessions for all product teams.
Led the premium product design, which contributed to a 50,000 growth in paid users.
Collaborated with the design team and led research on a UI audit and UX redesign for the Android and IOS apps.
Designed the UX for our geo-fence products: Places, Shared Lists, Reminders, and Meetups.

Technologies: InVision, Sketch

Education

1994 - 1997

Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Motion Graphics

San Francisco Art Institute - San Francisco, California, USA

Experience

Consumer Products - 10 years UX Design - 10 years UI Design - 10 years User Experience (UX) - 10 years Early-stage Startups - 10 years Product Design - 6 years Design Strategy - 5 years User Research - 5 years

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