Christie Pedersen
Design
Styling
Art Direction
Brooklyn, New York
pedersen.christie@gmail.com
Jawnt l 2023
Freelance Lead UX Designer
Lead designer for a service provider reinventing the world of commuter benefits for riders, employees, and transit agencies. Accomplishments include extending the platform architecture to accommodate a growing product roadmap and new payment card vertical, delivering expanded features to empower account administrators, introducing design QA practices for feature releases, and leading cross-team collaboration and information sharing via design workshops with partners and stakeholders.
Small Planet l 2021-2023
Senior UX/UI Designer
Senior UX/UI designer at a Brooklyn-based digital service agency specializing in web design and mobile applications. Responsibilities included leading internal and external design reviews, delivering comprehensive UX strategy and high-fidelity UI, synthesizing research insights to drive project scoping and feasibility assessments, and contributed to thought leadership and mentorship.
Siegel+Gale l 2020-2021
Experience Designer
Experience designer for a brand experience agency. Responsible for simplifying complex UX problems and bringing to life meaningful digital transformations for clients across industries. Contributions include conducting usability tests, product audits, and competitive analyses in discovery phases, wire-framing page layouts and creating visual explorations for brand redesigns, restructuring existing information architectures to better align with client and user needs, translating research insights into UX strategy for maximum impact.
Orange You Glad l 2020
Freelance UI Designer
Contracted to provide UI design support on a new and robust ed tech web tool intended for facilitating virtual lessons. Responsibilities extended to UX design support on complex lesson planning and assessment features, as well as light visual design support for legacy clients.
cleen:hemp l 2019-2020
Brand Experience Designer
Lead the design and execution for the end-to-end brand experience of a debut CBD beverage line. Responsibilities included print and package design, web design for e-commerce, extending existing brand guidelines for internal and external communication, creating environmental signage for the flagship tasting room, and art directing product and editorial photoshoots for e-commerce.
Party Animal Studio l 2018-2019
Co-founder & Creative Director
Co-founded a boutique pet portrait studio in Seattle,WA. Responsible for brand creation, client management, and creative direction.
Zulily l 2015-2018
Editorial Stylist
Styled for on-figure and off-figure e-commerce editorial imagery and video. Contributions include testing and implementing improved studio workflow methods. Responsible for training and mentoring new stylists concerning styling techniques, and brand guidelines. Partnered with merchants, producers, and photographers to create on-brand visual assets for marketing campaigns.
Zulily l 2014-2015
Product Stylist
Styled a high volume of product on a variety of set types for photography including menswear, womens apparel and accessories, kids apparel, footwear, toys, books, and home-goods. Collaborated with lead photographers and stylists in developing new studio standards. Supported the editorial studio during peak season.
Previous Clients
American Express
bibliotheca
Booz Allen Hamilton
Bristol Myers Squibb
Brookfield Farm
cleen:craft
cleen:hemp
cleen:wellness
E. Smith Mercantile
Fitwel
Great Minds
Jawnt
Micron
NARS
Nautica
nPD
Penn Interactive
TOMS
Too Cool For School
UST
Vans