🔥 Product Designer | 3 Years of Visual Design Excellence | Proficient in Figma & Protopie✨ | Open to Remote Opportunities

I'm a Product Designer with 5+ dynamic years crafting impactful designs in SaaS, social apps, tech recruitment, and startups. 

I've averted $100,000 in potential losses, launched an MVP app at WebSummit, and 3X brand recognition through strategic marketing. I also recently obtained certifications in HTML/CSS and am currently learning Javascript.

Most recently, I played a key role in improving the user experience of a bootstrapped Biotech SaaS startup by tackling usability issues and implementing strategic design processes, which included conducting stakeholder interviews and evolving the design system. Drove a UX redesign and the implementation of a design system to ensure consistent branding, thereby establishing a cohesive identity that could potentially enhance the company's market share in brand initiatives.

I specialize in designing intuitive and engaging digital products, with a primary focus on language learning apps, travel planning apps, and recruitment marketing software. 

As a Product Designer, I excel in both UX and UI design, particularly emphasizing information architecture, accessibility, and skeuomorphic elements. My sweet spot lies in creating consumer-facing experiences for adult users. I thrive in remote work environments and prioritize collaboration with developers, marketers, and leadership. 

My problem-solving expertise centers around AI integration, innovation, differentiation, and ensuring optimal usability and accessibility. Proficient in Figma, Protopie, and Marvel, I am committed to continuous learning, including expanding into web development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

I'm open to fully remote, flex-schedule opportunities. Please send me a DM or email me at sanders.samc@gmail.com.

Samantha Sanders

Teaching Founders & Designers about UX & AI | Design Lead & Engineer (15y exp.)

Most designers talk about users.

I talk about revenue, and the systems that move it ↓

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟲+ 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲:

↳ 40% profit increase in 6 weeks for a financial services client
↳ Shipped apps managing $120M+ AUM↳ 30%+ conversion rate improvements across 3 enterprise products
↳ Scalable front-end architectures serving thousands of users daily
↳ Design systems that cut dev cycles in half while improving consistency

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲?

I don't design interfaces. 
I build revenue infrastructure that bridges three worlds most companies still treat as separate departments:

→ 𝗨𝗫 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻: Decision architecture that drives measurable business outcomes

→ 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁-𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝘃: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS. I ship production code, not slide decks

→ 𝗔𝗜 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Agentic workflows, prompt engineering, and AI-native design patterns that multiply output 3-5x without sacrificing craft

2026 changed the job description for designers.

They learned to operate at the intersection of design thinking, working code, and AI fluency.

I've been operating there for years.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀:
☑ Someone your engineers respect because he reads their PRs
☑ Someone your CFO trusts because he speaks in ROI, not moodboards
☑ Someone who asks "what metric does this move?" before opening Figma
☑ Someone who builds AI into the workflow, not bolts it on as a talking point

16 years across Fortune 500 enterprises and early-stage startups taught me one thing:

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼𝘀.

They're the ones who understand that design is a business function. 

Most designers pick a lane. 
I refused to choose.
That refusal became my edge.

John Balboa

Normal people lose sleep over bills.
Designers lose sleep over 8px vs 16px.
Both think they're rational.

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𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝟯𝗔𝗠:
"Did I pay the electric bill?"

𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝟯𝗔𝗠:
"Should I use Poppins again or is that too boring?"

___

See, normal people worry about:
↳ Bills
↳ Kids
↳ Dinner
↳ Deadlines

Designers worry about:
↳ Padding (is 8px enough?)
↳ Color contrast ratios
↳ Accessibility
↳ Layer naming conventions
↳ Whether the user will notice the micro-interaction
↳ Showing NDA work without violating NDA
↳ AI stealing their Figma seat
↳ Logo size (2px bigger? smaller?)
↳ Using purple gradients twice in one week
↳ Worrying if their design will positively affect conversion 

___

We'll debate button corner radius for hours.

Then forget to update our portfolio for years.

The gap is what keeps you up, and shows how you see the world.

- Normal people solve problems.
- Designers solve problems nobody notices, then obsess until sunrise.

Somehow, both matter.

But only one gets therapy for typography anxiety.

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𝗣𝗦: What design choice woke you at 2AM that sounds crazy when you say it out loud?

Follow me, John Balboa. Don't worry, I won't detach your components. Please get some sleep 😴. 

#UXDesign #DesignerLife #ProductDesign

Helping ambitious designers become strategic executors with AI | Design Lead & AI Dev | 16y exp, Fortune 300

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