I’m a remote UX & product designer based in Maryland. I help companies simplify complex products to create impactful outcomes.

Product Design · User Experience · Service Design · Visual Design

Strategic user experiences with beautiful product design that achieves results.

Mobile device with product used to deliver disaster relief services

NGO Organization

Product Design for Disaster Relief App

Reduced complexity and streamlined efficiency, increasing usability by 62% in 3 years based on 360 heuristic criteria for product used nationally by 616,000+ people. Built design system with 180+ accessible WCAG 2.1 AA components.

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Store Maintenance Mobile Software App

Fortune 500

Store Maintenance Mobile Software Product

Designed mobile app for national retail chain, supporting workflows of 100s of technicians across the country servicing stores to save millions of dollars annually by maximizing the value of a minute in a work day.

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Ecosystem map, service blueprint, and journey map for new service

NGO Organization

Service Design for Disaster Assistance Program

Modernized complex services by clarifying systems, improving caseworker and client workflows, reducing volume of manual work, and enhancing client experience to accelerate new program launch from 6 to 2 weeks.

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Affinity map with clusters from user research

NGO Organization

Product Design Strategy for Disaster Relief

Researched to develop product design strategy, helping to secure a $500k grant for enhancements by creating a measurable plan grounded in 2,230+ insights from 680+ people including business goals and expected impacts.

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Complex Information Architecture for NGO

NGO Organization

Information Architecture & Building a Team

Audited 100s of content pieces to create uniform controlled vocabulary, taxonomies, metadata, navigations, and conventions while lowering average reading level by 50% and decreasing system processing volume by 63%.

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Introduction slides for my design courses about personas, journey maps, and service design.

NGO Organization

Design Course Creation & Teaching

Planned and facilitated 3 design courses on personas, journey maps, and service blueprints to 25+ cross-functional team members in 4 sessions to strengthen user centricity and usability across 6 products.

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Asset Management Enterprise App

Government Agency

Vehicle Asset Management Enterprise App

Researched and designed a powerful enterprise application for one government agency’s vehicle fleet management system, improving system usability and reducing time on task to track 8,354 work vehicles by 133%.

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Service blueprints for real estate lifecycle

Fortune 500

Commercial Real Estate Enterprise Discovery

Conducted research about business and user needs with real estate agents for firm’s software workflow transformation proposal, identifying 115+ pain points for resolution to break agents out of Excel, email, and other disjointed systems.

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Customer Onboarding Service Software

Fortune 500

Customer Onboarding Service Product

Designed a new application to onboard service vendors contracting with one national retail chain, reducing workflow onboarding timelines by 90% through process optimization and personalized user experience.

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Photo Gear Store and Educational Travel Tours

Retail e-Commerce

e-Commerce Customer Experience Website

Designed visual branding, enhanced customer experience, and refined search engine optimization, boosting traffic funnels by 150% and growing organic revenue by 58% with 23% more transactions.

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Email Marketing Design and Development

Retail e-Commerce

Email Series Customer Experience Marketing

Executed email campaigns with creative visual design and storytelling with high engagement and return on investment, exceeding industry benchmarks by averaging 34% open rate and 20% click rate.

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My passion is designing for real people.

The best user experiences and service designs begin with discovery, research, collaboration, and an intentional results-driven strategy.

I’m always learning and giving back.

Jamie Umak - UX Certification Badge from Nielsen Norman Group
UX Certified through Nielsen Norman Group with UX Management Specialty

I love attending conferences and learning from others through one of the best UX training programs available.

Jamie Umak - UX Certification Badge from Nielsen Norman Group
Former Chapter Leader of Interaction Design Foundation Baltimore, MD

For six years I managed the IxDF Baltimore group, mentored designers, and organized design meetups for 90+ members.

Start transforming your user and service experiences by discovering the magic of strategic design.

I’m always available for new opportunities, consulting, writing, mentoring, and conversation.

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