Roxanne Ravago
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
New York, NY, United States
Toptal member since March 4, 2019
Roxanne has contributed to teams in a variety of roles throughout her professional history and now focuses on strategic design thinking, product design, UX/UI/IxD, and visual identity. In taking an unconventional path and learning to learn, she has gained valuable skills and confidence navigating and leading through uncertainty.
Work Experience
Mobile Product and Visual Designer (Freelance)
Five Four Ventures
- Designed iOS app branding and visual identity for reading chat fiction stories for underrepresented women of color and LGBTQ individuals.
Lead UX/UI/Interaction Designer (Freelance)
Cengage Learning Inc.
- Led user research and design of new e-learning subscription service for signup/activation, onboarding, engagement in course dashboard, and checkout flows during the free trial period.
- Led user research and design of Cengage.com experience, content discovery, and engagement for 1.1 million instructors.
Web Product and Visual Designer (Freelance)
Waggle Ventures Inc.
- Designed MVP of Waggle.tv, a community-driven digital media platform (responsive website and platform) with 1.4+ million users sharing educational pet and animal content, incubated by Broadway Video Ventures (SNL, Jimmy Fallon) and backed by Raine and Lowercase Capital.
- Designed branding, HTML emails, and custom character illustration for Waggle.tv's newsletter series.
Lead Web Product and Visual Designer (Freelance)
Collabera Inc.
- Designed iOS app, branding, and visual identity for enterprise clients as PoC of an all-in-one platform for hiring talent just in time.
- Led product design and visual identity of job search platform and responsive website for a company that matches 15,000+ professionals to 250+ organizations worldwide.
Web and Visual Designer (Freelance)
Uplift Humanity
- Redesigned and rebranded website of a nonprofit that has educated 500+ incarcerated children across India.
Product Manager and UX Designer
Nulab Inc.
- Led distributed product team in design and implementation of growth analytics infrastructure.
- Led user research and designed prototypes of website and web app to improve customer lifecycle and retention for web wireframing app used by 1.5+ million users.
Education
Continuing Education in Machine Learning Literacy
School for Poetic Computation - New York
Continuing Education in Full-stack Software Engineering
Hack Reactor - Remote
Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial and Labor Relations
Cornell University - New York
Skills
Tools
Sketch, InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Procreate, Jira, Validately, Adobe Photoshop, Google Analytics, Chrome Developer Tools, Sublime Text 3, Git, GitHub
Platforms
iOS, Mixpanel, Mobile
Languages
JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Industry Expertise
Education, Human Resources (HR), Entertainment & Leisure, Media
Other
Product Design, Design Thinking, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Visual Identity, Human-centered Design (HCD), UX Design, UI Design, Visual Design, User Research, Usability, Writing & Editing, Wireframing, Mobile-first Design, Intercom, Information Architecture (IA), Branding, Digital Illustration, Vector Illustration, Accessibility, Graphic Design, Growth Hacking, Usability Testing, Mobile Web, Interaction Design (IxD), Analytics, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Dashboard Design, E-learning, Art Direction, Image Retouching, Nonprofits, Social Impact, Higher Education, Web Dashboards, Platform Design, Job Search Sites, Recruiting, Staffing, User Testing, Pets, Animals, User-generated Content, Communities, iOS App Design, New Media, Books, HR Tools, jQuery, Optimal Workshop, Bootstrap, Quality Assurance (QA)
Experience
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