Product designer with 8+ years shaping intuitive, accessible experiences for high-growth SaaS teams. I pair systems thinking with a bias for shipping — leading end-to-end design from research through polished, engineering-ready specs.
Senior Product Designer
Mar 2021 — Present
Northwind · San Francisco, CA
Lead designer for the core scheduling platform used by 2M+ people.
- Drove a design-system overhaul adopted across 6 product teams, cutting UI build time by 40%.
- Shipped a redesigned onboarding flow that lifted activation 23% quarter over quarter.
- Mentored 4 designers and established the team's weekly critique ritual.
Product Designer
Jun 2018 — Feb 2021
Lumen Labs · Remote
Owned end-to-end design for the analytics dashboard.
- Launched a self-serve reporting builder used by 60% of active accounts.
- Partnered with research to run 30+ usability sessions informing the 2020 roadmap.
B.F.A. in Interaction Design
Sep 2010 — May 2014 · GPA 3.9
Rhode Island School of Design · Providence, RI
Graduated with honors. Thesis on accessible data visualization.
Palette — Design Tokens Kit — Creator
Jan 2022
github.com/avathompson/palette
An open-source design-tokens toolkit with 1.2k GitHub stars.
- Adopted by 40+ teams
- Featured in Designer News
TypeScript · Design Systems · Open Source
