Marlon Phillips

User Experience Designer
Detroit, Michigan
marlonjphillips.com
phmarlon@umich.edu
2484625488
UX Professional with 10 years of experience leveraging user-centric design to launch sites, tools, platforms, and applications for companies including General Motors, Dow Chemical, Buick, and Onstar.

Work Experience

UX Creative Lead, Freelance

Elephant

May 2024 - Aug 2024
  • Conceptualize wireframes and mockups to aide in the design of employee facing workflow tools
  • Collaborate with users, client and developers to gather user needs and feedback

Associate Director, Experience Designer

Apr 2022 - Feb 2024
  • Led UX and UI design for General Motors and GM Envolve.
  • Collaborated with analytics, content strategy, and developer teams to drive weekly design executions on gm.com
  • Educated clients on accessibility standards, UX best practices, and design trends via workshops and presentations.
  • Established a design system and UI for the development of gmenvolve.com.

Product Designer

Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
  • Provided user research and design to enhance loan processing at Auto Approve.
  • Identified pain points in employee workflows by conducting user interviews and contextual inquiry.
  • Constructed user flows, service blueprints, personas, and wireframes from user insights.
  • Designed workflow tools to surface loan processing errors and delegate tasks to title specialists.

Senior Experience Designer

Oct 2014 - Aug 2021
  • Delivered sites, platforms, and tools for Buick, Cheesecake Factory, Dow Chemical, GMC, and OnStar.
  • Conceptualized wireframes, mockups, and prototypes in Axure, Sketch, and Invision for user testing, presentation, and documentation.
  • Overhauled buick.com by leveraging analytics and user testing to enhance engagement, reduce complexity, and ensure design cohesion.
  • Established a web framework to migrate and launch over 50 country sites, product sites, and tools across Dow Chemical’s web ecosystem.
  • Applied content strategy, information architecture, and UX strategy to consolidate the web presence of corporate.dow.com.

Fellowship

  • Developed a web-based map platform to access and visualize over 500 local and regional spatial datasets.
  • Engaged stakeholders and academic researchers to discover user needs.
  • Synthesized user needs into wireframes, prototypes, and front-end development.

Volunteer Work

UMSI Mentorship Program

Jan 2016 - Current

Guide student projects, mentor students via one-on-one sessions, and speak on panels and presentations.

Education

Master of Science in Information - Human Computer Interaction

University of Michigan Ann Arbor

Sep 2012 - May 2014

Bachelor of Science - Urban and Regional Planning, Minor - Geographic Information Science

Jul 2008 - May 2012

Skills & Tools

  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Axure RP 
  • Figma
  • HTML, CSS, Javascript  
  • Jira
  • Miro
  • Sketch & Invision
  • Comparative Analysis
  • Personas
  • Prototyping  
  • User Flows
  • User Research
  • User Testing
  • Wireframing