
Stella Lee
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
New York, NY, United States
Toptal member since August 9, 2022
Stella is a multidisciplinary UX designer with end-to-end product development experience. Currently, she designs user experiences for Peloton's digital members—working across mobile, TV, web, watch, and hardware-connected tablets. Stella has a wide range of professional experience, including working at a design consultancy, a 50-person B2C healthcare startup, IBM Watson (working on B2B enterprise software), and Peloton (a 5,000-person mid-size fitness tech company).
Portfolio
Work Experience
Senior UX Designer
Peloton Interactive
- Took multiple feature launches and implemented them across our mobile, TV, web, and hardware-connected tablet platforms while taking into consideration the constraints of each platform.
- Led cross-functional collaboration efforts with hardware designers, hardware and software developers, product managers, and visual designers to launch hardware-software connected experiences.
- Localized an entire platform from English to German, including, auditing where the translations were breaking in UI and working with translators to make sure the translation made sense culturally.
Interaction Designer
Argodesign
- Utilized research, design strategy, and execution to design a real-time notification platform for our clients in the heavy equipment rental industry.
- Established and implemented a unified digital experience for managing a customer’s orders, employees, and jobsites.
- Pitched multiple concepts to our clients in the heavy equipment rental industry—taking them through ways to implement digital transformation in currently stagnant and analog industry.
UX Product Designer
Simple Contacts
- Launched Simplehealth.com, a new service for online birth control prescription renewal service in less than three months.
- Led the design and creative direction efforts around our brand transition from SimpleContacts, an online contact lens prescription renewal service, to SimpleHealth, an online birth control prescription renewal service.
- Worked as the sole product designer on the team—conducting user research and creating low/high-fidelity wireframes, clickable prototypes, and a comprehensive style guide for the responsive web and mobile app.
UX Designer and Researcher
IBM Watson Data Platform
- Implemented and led biweekly evaluative user research sessions.
- Recruited data scientists, conducted user research, created UX/UI designs, and ensured that the design was guided by user feedback before the hand-off to development.
- Collaborated in agile sprints with managers, designers, and developers while aligning business goals with user research, design, and tech feasibility.
- Contributed to platform-wide research to uncover and provide clear personas and archetypes. The projects included Data Science Experience “Canvas” and Watson Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design
ArtCenter College of Design - Los Angeles, CA, United States
Exchange Program in Strategy for Product and Service Development
INSEAD MBA Exchange - Singapore
Skills
Tools
Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, InVision, Adobe Illustrator, IBM Watson, SPSS, IBM SPSS, SPSS Modeler, MockFlow
Platforms
Figma, Web, Mobile, Android, tvOS, iOS
Industry Expertise
Healthcare, Travel & Leisure, Aircraft & Airlines, Healthcare Media, Health, Fitness, Exercise & Fitness, Health & Wellness, Concept Pitches
Other
UX Design, User Journey Maps, Product Design, Design Evaluation, Apps, Mobile Apps, Mobile UI, User Experience (UX), Web UX, Mobile UX, UX Wireframes, UX Audits, App Design, UX Flows, Wireframing, Product Strategy, Mobile Design, Web App Design, User Journeys, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Software as a Service (SaaS), CRM Design, Design Strategy, User Research, Information Architecture (IA), UI Design, Startups, Visual Design, User Interface (UI), Ionic, Dashboard Design, Data Visualization, Abstracts, Photography, Travel, Telemedicine, Service Design, Data Science, Analytics, Voice UI Design, Conversational UX, Conversational UI, Recipes & Cooking, Rentals, Interaction Design (IxD), Calendars, Search, Browsers, Flight, Pastel, Weather, Forecasting, Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF), Skyscape, Conceptual Design, Style Guides, Women's Health, Responsive Design, Responsive Layout, Responsive UI, Responsive UX Design, Creative Direction, House Photography, Landing Pages, Landing Page Optimization, Landing Page Design, Sitemaps, User Flows, Illustration, Eyewear, Eye Tests, PDP-11, Blogs, Checkout, Contact Lens, Responsive, React Redux, Enterprise, Enterprise SaaS, UI Evaluation, Heuristic Evaluation, Design Principles, IBM Watson Analytics, AI Design, Voice User Interfaces (VUI), UI Motion, Recipe Books, Conversational Design, Chatbot Conversation Design, Conversational Interfaces, Chatbox, Live Chat, South Korea, Apartments, Tenants, Tenant Portals, Portals, Android UI Design, Design Research, Login Screens, Requests, TV, Fire TV, Connected Device Design, Exercise & Gyms, Apple HomeKit, Fitness Trackers, Health IT, Dashboards, Localization, Translation, Research, UX Research, Digital Experience Design, Sketching, UX Sketching, Journey Mapping, Service Journey Maps, Consulting, User Testing, Remote User Testing, Lean Startups, Agile UX, Scrum, Lean UX, Lean Research, Brand Design, UI Branding, UI Style Guides, Responsive Web Apps, Qualitative Research, Sprints, Agile Sprints, User Feedback, Web UX Design, Product Analytics, Heuristic Analysis, Ideation, Visual Exploration, Test Design, Product Display Page, Apartment Portals, Pitch Preparation, Android Design Guidelines, MVP Design, Social Media Apps, Prototyping
Experience
- Figma - 8 years
- UX Design - 8 years
- Product Design - 7 years
- Mobile Apps - 7 years
- Sketch - 6 years
- User Journey Maps - 6 years
- Design Strategy - 5 years
- UI Design - 5 years
Tools
- Sketch
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