I work with major brands and startups as a product designer specializing in user experience (UX) design, user interface (UI) design, interaction design (IxD), information architecture (IA), and user research to create products and services that are engaging for users and successful for the business.
Direct evidence from user insights provides confidence about which experiences to design, build, and launch—and which not to, saving valuable time and resources.
UX Research Lead
San Francisco, California
1/2022 — 2/2024
Provided deep knowledge with user research about a diverse range of customers and users, helping product managers, designers, developers, and stakeholders deliver successful product launches at a startup provider of comprehensive insurance products and proactive cybersecurity tools, assisting organizations to manage and mitigate risk
Senior UX Designer
San Francisco, California
11/2019 — 12/2021
Created clean product designs to simplify complex user experiences for a diverse range of customers and users for product design and development at a startup provider of comprehensive insurance products and proactive cybersecurity tools, helping organizations manage and mitigate risk
Applied design thinking framework to empathize and understand users, define their problems, ideate on creative solutions, and prototype realistic representations for user feedback
Senior Designer
San Francisco, California
6/2018 — 9/2019
Provided all aspects of product design to craft clean user experiences, user interfaces, and visual designs, with customer research, ideation with storyboarding, prototyping, conceptual modeling, and testing to improve the purchase experience for (SaaS) products for software developers and product managers (B2B)
Principal UX
San Francisco, California
4/2016 — 5/2018
Conceptualized and designed successful multi-channel customer experiences and product designs for a consumer retail digital platform (Macys.com) as a UX design leader using in-depth user research to understand customers and their needs, applied research insights to synchronize multiple product design initiatives to achieve customer engagement and conversion
Senior User Experience Architect
San Francisco, California
10/2014 — 3/2016
Conceptualized and designed successful customer experiences and product designs for consumer retail digital platforms (Macys.com and Bloomingdales.com) using Lean UX techniques
Senior User Experience Designer
San Francisco, California
07/2013 — 01/2014
Advocated UX best practices, created rapid feedback loops to improve product development workflow, conducted user research, and provided cross-functional communication for a startup online fundraising platform for organizations creating fundraising campaigns
Senior User Experience Architect
San Francisco, California
09/2009 — 06/2013
Designed and improved user experiences, applied Lean UX principles to product development, conducted user research, and wrote UX strategy proposals for a travel marketplace selling discounted inventory (B2C)
Manager UX Design
San Francisco, California
02/2006 — 02/2009
Designed engaging user experiences and managed UX team, projects, and resources for digital media publications on consumer technologies
BFA with distinction Graphic Design, May 2003
California College of the Arts
UX, IxD, and IA |
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Figma |
Airtable |
Miro |
Looker |
Google Analytics |
InVision |
Sketch |
Axure RP |
Balsamiq |
Proto.io |
Microsoft Visio |
HTML5 |
CSS3 |
Bootstrap |
D3 |
Adobe InDesign |
Adobe PhotoShop |
Adobe Illustrator |
Adobe Acrobat Pro |
QuarkXPress |
Motion & Sound |
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Adobe After Effects |
Apple Final Cut Pro |
Training |
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Goal-Directed design (Alan Cooper) |
Agile Scrum (Jeff Patton) |
Lean Startup (Eric Ries) |
Listening Labs (Creative Good) |
Intent Planning (Normative Design) |
Service Design (Adaptive Path) |
Front-end Web Development (General Assembly) |
Karl Schultz
601 Van Ness Avenue, Unit 18
San Francisco, CA 94102
Email: karl.schultz@yahoo.com
LinkedIn: Karl Schultz LinkedIn profile