Calley Prezzano, your next best hire.

I’m excited to join the Dutchie Team as a Senior Product Designer!

My Background

As a Product Designer, I collaborate with cross-functional teams to strategically execute sophisticated digital experiences. I have 15+ years of practice using creative problem solving in delivering excellent outcomes to customers while aligning with business needs.

In my next role, I am looking to increase my impact in helping people can use digital products to assist their offline experiences. I hope to be a part of a team that values transparency, constant improvement, and the pursuit of excellence.

I excel using Figma, Google Suite, Adobe Suite, Notion, Jira, Miro, Microsoft Suite, Slack

Learn more about me here

I’ve got what it takes!

Well Rounded Design Skills

Best Practices

Communication

Soft Skills

Well Rounded Design Skills

My strengths in strategy and discovery include aligning business and user needs. I have experience leading and collaborating for accessible interaction design and attractive visual design in web and mobile interfaces. I practice regular refinement of designs to ensure a best-in-class experience for each customer.

3 Screens of Mobile First Intake Flow for RealSure consumers

Mobile-First Flows

I used heuristics and competitive research to improve the RealSure lead generation flow. We created an easier, user-friendly experience for this mobile-first responsive design.

Flushed out persona work shown in a slide deck

Qualitative Research

I planned and facilitated UX Research with current users of Good Eggs. I then collaborated to synthesize results in contribution to a more robust persona for cross-functional teams.

laptop mock up of a high fidelity screen

Full Stack Design

In designing a new product on a new platform with new branding for a new user, this RealSure project covered all the bases. I collaborated to ensure MVP content was visually appealing with intuitive interactions, all under a rigid timeline.

Working with Best Practices

Whether starting a project or jumping into one that exists already, I design with industry standards in accessibility as well as appropriate artifacts to understand best solve problems efficiently with excellent finished deliverables.

Example of Design System Components

Design Systems

I design by industry standards of Human Interface Guidelines. I spend time creating, documenting and reviewing Figma components. I’ve also created Design Systems based on Bootstrap and Material Design.

example of accessible bp branding
example of accessible bp branding
example of accessible bp branding

Heuristics & WCAG

As a full stack designer with bp, I created new online experiences to replace those on paper and spreadsheets. I documented how to apply best practices and educated stakeholders in learnability and accessibility in consistent designs using brand colors.

Examples of Journey Map for users of RealSure

Trust the Process

By creating and aligning stakeholders early on with UX artifacts, I am able to lead efficient and streamlined work when it comes to managing content and the visual design of the user interface.

Communication

I effectively create delightful designs by treating each individual as a partner in the work we create. From step one of the process, I ask questions, and can explain why we landed on certain design decisions. I make sure to leave room for feedback and clarifications.

RealSure Slide Deck example. This slide shows numbered features on a screen, and how it correlates to our draft.

Annotated Slide Decks

After I harvest priorities from often ambiguous starting points, I keep those priorities upfront during the project. I use visual tools to share details with teams like product, operations, and marketing. Working remotely and in differing time zones, I promote asynchronous collaboration and communication.

Prototype for Measured Consulting prototype

Figma Prototypes

At Measured, I conceptualized a new flow with the Product Manager and confirmed the vision with a high fidelity prototype. We then tested the prototype so that customers and other teams could see the vision and give their feedback in moderated sessions.

Example of annotated figma files for development

Comps for Engineers

I am sure to be in early communication with developers and engineers. Knowing constraints, I am also able to add low lift quick wins for high reward improvements. I make sure to document interactions and visual specs in final comps. I also check back in after the deliverables for questions and to share kudos!

Soft Skills

I honed my ability to work efficiently and with attention to detail while in hospitality. I’m also organized and I thrive when working laterally in simultaneous projects.

But enough of me talking about me, let’s see what other people are saying about me:

Calley’s partnership was invaluable. Her responsiveness, quality of work, & quick turnaround time for assets were key to our fast-paced startup environment.
— Product Manager, RealSure
Calley crafts design solutions that meet visual and functional needs. She is very quick to learn the product expectations and makes quick progress from initial drafts to final deliverables. Calley is a great partner and really easy to work with.
— Product Manager, Measured
Calley is a talented designer with notable strengths in strategic thinking and conceptualization. She is extremely self-motivated and enthusiastic about jumping into whatever task a project requires and tackling complex problems. Calley works great as an individual contributor or as a team member.
— UX Director, Mojo PSG.

Doing good together, from start to finish.

As a competitive swimmer, I know that to win a race is to focus on each detail, from entry to touching the last wall with power. In my years as an Executive Chef, I learned that we can only move far together. Every person, every part of the project matters.

As I focus on good work, with colleagues, clients, or consumers, I am a human centered designer (and person).

The password for the RealSure Case Study is flamingo.