Paul Pardue




I bring over 15 years of experience as an independent contributor and player-coach team leader in the both the design and engineering spaces owning the end-to-end product design pipeline, connecting, empowering, and mentoring cross-functional teams of designers and engineers across a wide range of digital and experiential spaces.

My passion is in producing impactful user-centric customer experiences across diverse omni-channel touch points. Versed in multiple disciplines I bring a wealth of experience and knowledge in design development and leadership roles.

Skilled in
eCommerceFinTechBusiness to Business (B2B)Business to Consumer (B2C)Software as a Service (SaaS)Project ManagementAnalyticsUser FlowsPersona MappingJourney MappingInformation ArchitectureHuman Computer Interaction (HCI)Graphic DesignProduct LifecycleBusiness DevelopmentDesign SystemsFront End DevelopmentBack End DevelopmentUX StrategyUser Experience (UX)User Interface (UI)PhotographyVideo ProductionArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine Learning (ML)MobileResponsive WebADA/WCAG/508AnalyticsQualitative DataQuantitative DataUser ResearchKey Performance Indicators (KPIs)Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)Experiential DesignCustomer Experience (CX)EnterpriseTransactional DesignUX ArchitectureSite ArchitectureProduct DesignPackaging DesignPrint MediaDigital MediaSEOA/B Testing

Paul Pardue
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Experienced designer and full stack engineer specializing in web and digital products. I bring a unique background of graphic design, web development, project management, media communications, and visual arts. Proficient in team management & leadership.

I have a focus on human-centered experiences, forward-thinking designs, crafting brand identities, and creating responsive and accessible customer centric user experiences that are visually captivating and functional while aligning to business goals and metrics.

Proven track record of bringing 0-1 products from inception to launch, leveraging reusability, scalability, and accessibility with clean modern design and development principals while adhering to timelines and budgets.

Expertise

UI DesignUX DesignHCI DesignVisual DesignGraphic DesignArt DirectionBrand IdentityAtomic DesignAgile DevelopmentResponsive WebFront-End DevelopmentProject ManagementPlayer CoachIndependent ContributorProduct Designer

Kudos to Paul Daniel Pardue for all of the good work you've been doing at the client location! Your creativity, attention to detail, and user-centric approach have truly elevated the design experience and made an impression on the client. The positive feedback from the client speaks volumes about your ability to translate complex requirements into intuitive, elegant solutions. Thank you for being a driving force behind seamless user experiences and for representing our team with such professionalism. Keep up the good work!

- Kaushik A. Apexon

I highly recommend Paul Pardue for any position. He is extremely versatile and has a wide range of skills. What he doesn't know he will learn because Paul is driven to learn new things. He is an extremely dedicated and reliable employee, and he is a team player. As his supervisor I was a better employee because of the support and education I received from Paul. He enjoys thinking outside the box and coming up with creative solutions. Paul is capable of coming at a challenge from many different perspectives and works hard to solve problems and increase efficiency. He works well with others and seeks, accepts, and incorporates feedback. He is willing and able to take charge of a project and supervise others, but he is just as willing to follow directions and work as a strong team member. Paul is an asset to any organization he works with.

- Candi H. CGB Inc.

Paul is a well rounded full stack designer & developer. He is a rare talent who combines a deep understanding of product design with the ability to code and implement his designs. This makes him an invaluable asset to any team, as he has the ability to take a product from conception to launch entirely on their own. He is also a team player and a great communicator. I would highly recommend him.

- Michelle K. Rodan & Fields

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Case Studies:

User Experience Design

Brand identity refresh

Local sign company rebrand including website and graphic design

Custom Contracting Solutions Bay Area

principal Product Designer & Developer

SaaS Customer Dashboard

Design a work in progress dashboard for SaaS automotive repair document tracking.

Alldata

Lead Product Designer

Messaging web and app platform

Foundational zero-to-one design system for social media.

MsgRm

principal Product Designer

Financial Dashboard

Design and development of consultant aggregated dashboard for financial downstream.

Rodan + Fields

UX Designer & Lead Engineer

Haircare Product Launch

Launching a new product category in a $1 billion dollars skincare company, addressing all user touch points in a unified e-commerce reveal

Rodan + Fields

Lead User Experience Designer & Engineer

Skin Quiz

Initial design and development of a weighted confidence based scoring system for product recommendation and intro to machine learning.

Rodan + Fields

Lead User Experience Designer & Engineer

Design System

Core elements to building a design system from scratch utilizing atomic design ideology and agile production.

Rodan + Fields

Lead User Experience Designer & Engineer

Developer Toolkit

Translating a UX design system into useable code and a global CSS library for developer usage.

Rodan + Fields

Lead Engineer

Core Grey Color Palette

Exploration of core foundational greyscale pallet for components and copy.

Rodan + Fields

Lead Engineer

Case Studies:

Graphic Design

Photo retouching

Miscellaneous digital and print retouching for products and people.

Product Packaging Redesign

Redesign product packaging for chocolate bar company to represent the type of chocolate and variety.

Caligold

Graphic Design

Hand-drawn Storefront Illustrations

Artisan shop owner branding and graphics.

Poppy Leigh Designs

Graphic Design

Architectural signage

Graphic design for laser cut architectural signage.

Custom Contracting Services Bay Area

Graphic Design

Duotone Color Palette

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Fonts & Spacing

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Line Height: 1.5em (24px)



Letter Spacing: 1/32em (0.5px)



Padding: 1em (16px)



Border Radius: 0.25em (4px)

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Color and Space


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Explore this interactive environment where you can play around with color and space to find harmony in design.

Click the arrows in the center to switch between color and spacing.

Find out what colors play well with each other and which don't? Do certain combinations clash or make it hard to read? How can font sizes, line heights, padding, and letter spacing affect readability?

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Experience


Principal UX Designer

Apexon

Technical and Creative Services Agency

Analytics | Brand Identity | DevOps | Graphic Design | Information Architecture | Journey Mapping | Metrics | SiteOps | UX DesignWorked with multiple vendor clients as principal designer in SaaS, B2B, fintech, pharmtech. Lead design implementation and interfaced with developers to ensure proper hand off. Worked with key client stakeholders in requirements gathering and documentation in order to address concerns and needs were properly addressed.
Highlights

Worked with key business c-suite stakeholders to design a financial dashboard for urgent care company to track key business insights and forecasting across multiple key metrics and KPIs. Ensured data accuracy with development team and that dashboards matched the designs in look and feel as well as functionality matching the client's needs.

Built design mocks for a pharmaceutical proof on concept as part of an RFP working closely with developers using agentic development to address design considerations in both look and feel as well as customer journey mapping and personas. Design work successfully landed the client as a long term project.

Designed workflows and screens for a SaaS platform expanding its services into a new space. Built out custom design components and added to the pre-existing design system ensuring brand identity.

Principal UX Design & Engineering

Perihelion Consulting

Technical and Creative Services Agency

Analytics | Brand Identity | DevOps | Graphic Design | Information Architecture | Journey Mapping | Metrics | SiteOps | UX DesignWorked with various clients in design and engineering projects.

UX & Engineering Lead

MsgRm

Messaging App

Brand Identity | CRM | Database Management | Design System | Information Architecture | Journey Mapping | Peer-to-peer Messaging | Project Management | Site ArchitectureStart up social media platform to create initial design system and brand identity assets ensuring consistency in design look and feel.
Highlights

Crafted initial designs for brand look and feel setting up basic design framework and library of components focusing on clean and modern design that was scalable and took advantage of reusable components and design language in atomic design principals.

Creative Director | Principal Graphic Designer

Custom Contracting Solutions

Architectural Signage, Print Graphics

B2B | Brand Identity | CRM | Graphic Design | Logo Design | Project Management | Site Architecture | Stakeholder Management | TypographyArchitectural sign company working as graphic designer and principal UX designer for updated brand identity and new website. Logo design and fabrication for various local companies.

Director of UI/UX

Yuvoice

Social Media App

Branding | Design System | Hiring Manager | People Management | UX DirectionSocial platform in the non profit public good space assisted with design and project management and team building in a volunteer capacity.

Director of User Experience

Dolphin Voyager

Educational Platform

EdTech | Information Architecture | Journey Mapping | Project Management | Storytelling | User StoriesDirect a team of designers and developers for educational platform leveraging optimizations in interaction design and development from the ground up, focusing on customer interactions, design tools, and technical skills.

Senior UX Manager

Rodan & Fields

E-commerce, Enterprise

A/B Testing | Analytics | B2B | B2C | CPG | Dashboards | Design Systems | E-commerce | Enterprise | FinTech | Information Architecture | Journey Mapping | Metrics | Omni-channel | Personas | Project Management | Qualitative Data | Quantitative Data | Saas | Stakeholder Management | User ResearchUI/UX design and development across the entire R+F digital landscape. Drove end-to-end UX process, targeting mobile first and responsive design, from concept to go live. Grew UX team of developers, designers, and researchers. Prioritized customer needs through analytical skills and cross-functional deliverables with clear solutions enhancing design standards and creativity.
Highlights

Manage multiple product initiatives, marketing campaigns, multichannel projects, and microsites to increase global sales from $550M to $1.8B in 4 years by creating a seamless and engaging commerce experience addressing pain points, surfacing product strategies through tracking and targeting user reviews & user feedback interviews and consultations aligning to project stakeholders and business metrics by identifying opportunities for improvement in vision and strategy of brand identity and measuring the success through UX research and product marketing adhering to budgets.

Took ownership in defining strategy and execution using subject matter expertise for the specifications of a user-centered design system aligning to business goals and adhering to user needs through cross functional team collaboration and alignment, supporting brand guidelines while overcoming technical challenges.

Engaged in product reviews and roadmap decision making and resource utilization, aligning to business priorities and product marketing strategies by prioritizing team workflows and efficiency in time management and development of high-performing team and nurture best talent, positioning team growth by 50%, resulting in reduction of time to market by up to 90% in order to drive consistency and build and maintain at scale through beginning to end organized thought leadership.

Boosted app engagement 320% by significantly improving product market fit.

Senior UI/UX

K-Force

E-Commerce

A/B Testing | Analytics | B2B | B2C | CPG | Design Systems | E-commerce | Enterprise | FinTech | Metrics | Omni-channel | Project Management | Qualitative Data | Quantitative Data | Saas | Stakeholder Management | User ResearchAs a member of the UX design team I worked closely with developers and engineering teams to ensure hand off and QA acceptance of production code and worked to build rapid prototypes focusing on development of interaction and micro animations & layout and responsive designs across a range of mobile and web platforms and environments.
Highlights

Built a comprehensive design system, enabling visual and experiential consistency across all teams and initiatives, keeping projects up-to-date with reusable and scalable design library developer toolkit with design tokens, focusing on mobile devices and responsive design across breakpoints.

Worked in a fast-paced agile projects work flow, from mockups to product launch and post-implementation maintenance, focusing on prioritization using data for competitive analytics and technical concepts backed up with data science to craft seamless user flows. Focused on scalability and integration cross-functionally in multiple environments and frameworks to enhance customer experience on complex projects.

Oversaw creation of AI/ML product recommendation engine. Re-platform of e-comm experience including 0-1 brand refresh, site redesign, and information architecture reducing customer pain points and focusing on user flow and user journey. Spearheaded creation of custom in-house design system across omni-channel experiences.

Senior Product Manager UX

California Gold Bars

E-commerce

CPG | CRM | Graphic Design | Mentoring | Packing Design | Product Design | Program Management
Highlights

Production environment project management. Focus on brand identity and graphic design for marketing and digital web presence.

People manager and on-boarding, hiring manager, team building and mentoring.

Graphic Designer

Ferocious Kitty Media

Design Agency

E-commerce | Print Design | UX Design | Web Design

Broadcast Engineer

GVTV

Live TV Broadcast Studio

Assistant Director | Camera Operator | Engineer | Motion Graphics | Technical Direction

Mac Specialist

Apple Computer

Apple Product Professional