Projects
Résumé
design@madebyli.co
Hi, I'm Lianna Lamorena 👋
With 8 years of experience in design, I've led multiple high-impact projects and mentored junior designers to success. I’ve worked with industry-leading brands such as Camping World, Quills, American Express, and Disney Media & Entertainment Technologies.
My expertise spans a variety of domains:
- eCommerce
- Developer Experience
- Cloud Technologies
- Media Asset Management
- Finance & Accounts
- Design Ops
- Enterprise Solutions
Currently looking for new opportunities!
Resume
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Education
Masters in Human Computer Interaction
Iowa State University
Google Foundation of User Experience Design
Coursera.org
Bachelors of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
University of Louisville, Hite Art Institute
Experience
Senior UX Designer
Disney
Sept 2023 - Current
- Developed and enhanced user experiences for enterprise tools that supports Disney-owned consumer platforms like Disney+, Hulu, ESPN and others.
- Collaborated with product, front-end, back-end, and QA teams to design requirements, understand user needs, and assess development feasibility.
- Served as a librarian for the enterprise design system component library, tasked with updating, creating, and managing the entire system to maintain consistency and quality across all design assets.
- Managed multiple projects with products supporting diverse aspects of Disney's streaming supply chain ecosystem, including media metadata management, advertising, and planning.
Lead UX Designer
American Express
Sept 2020 - Sept 2023
- Spearheaded user experience and creative strategy for internal systems supporting cloud infrastructure technologies, application life-cycle management, and developer experience.
- Develop intricate, high-fidelity prototypes for in-depth exploration of various use cases within data-intensive products, integrating and enhancing design systems as required for optimization.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, leadership, partner teams, and product owners across the organization to integrate UX design seamlessly within Agile methodologies, engaging with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Create, plan and execute usability studies to improve KPIs, metrics, and determine design strategy.
- Championing and advocating for UX design quality and usability, with a clear perspective and the ability to effectively communicate the value of high-quality design for enterprise platform technology software.
- Participate in organizational PI Planning and collaborate on team sprint planning, overseeing work distribution to junior designers through Jira.
- Possess extensive experience in UI engineering, adept with diverse technology stacks and proficient in developing distributed enterprise software.
- Thrive in an engineering-focused organization, with a deep understanding of highly technical products designed for cloud infrastructure users.
- Crafted user experiences for highly complex, abstract, and ambiguous features with little to no requirements, showcasing adaptability and problem-solving skills in challenging environments.
UX Designer
Quill’s
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020 (ended due to pandemic)
- Build high-fidelity prototypes in Axure for hand-off and user-testing.
- Conduct product research to support design decisions and UI/UX standards.
- Analyze outcomes from usability studies and define potential solutions.
- Audit current designs in efforts to build an updated design system.
Digital Designer
Camping World
July 2019 - Jan 2020
- Create dynamic and unique Google ads, Facebook ads, YouTube thumbnails, and Instagram post.
- Generate event-based graphics for website, social media, and HTML email campaigns.
- Conduct user research via UserTesting to determine most successful designs for advertisement and email.
UI/UX Designer
University of Louisville
Feb 2017 - July 2019
- Spearheaded user experience and creative strategy for internal systems supporting cloud infrastructure technologies, application life-cycle management, and developer experience.