Christina Gordzica

As a Principal Product Designer at C2FO, I play a pivotal role in shaping the user experience and design strategy for our financial technology products. My responsibilities encompass mentoring a team of designers, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, and driving the vision for user-centered design across our platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

Design Leadership: I lead the design strategy, ensuring alignment with C2FO’s business objectives and customer needs. I oversee the end-to-end design process, from concept to execution, and maintain high standards of design excellence.

Team Leadership and Mentorship: I mentor and guide a team of talented designers, fostering their professional growth and ensuring cohesive collaboration within the design team and across departments.

User-Centered Design: I advocate for the user throughout the design process, conducting user research, usability testing, and data analysis to inform design decisions. I champion intuitive and engaging user experiences that enhance customer satisfaction and usability.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: I collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to define product requirements and ensure seamless integration of design solutions. I facilitate workshops and design sprints to drive innovation and alignment.

Design System Development: I develop and maintain a design system to promote consistency and efficiency in our product design and development processes. I ensure adherence to design standards and best practices across all digital touchpoints.

Continuous Improvement: I stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in design and fintech. I leverage insights to propose and implement continuous improvements to our products and design processes.

Currently helping to drive innovation and design thinking as an in-residence expert in Interface, Interaction, and Experience Design.

I'm responsible for evaluating and creating user interfaces based on respective competitive market analysis, user feedback, and best practices. Takes pride in creating delight for users, building team morale, and the ability to work within tight deadlines.

Lead and owner of crafting brand standards and guidelines. Assists and drives product from concept to delivery. Collaborates with clients and internal team to ensure success.

UX/UI Hybrid Design Contractor responsible for mocking up mobile application & web interactions,
prototypes, hi fidelity mockups, spec sheets, and asset creation. Helped to create a custom icon font for using across web and hybrid mobile apps to increase productivity between designers and developers. Tasked with creating an extensive component library to help maintain consistency across projects for wireframes and hi-fidelity mockups, as part of a 3 person Style Guide Team. Helped maintain and improve brand consistency across multiple platforms. Uses Adobe Creative Cloud for mockups and hi-fidelity proofs; UX Pin, InVision, and Cycle for prototypes; JIRA and Basecamp for project management.

User Experience/Visual Interaction designer, responsible for maintaining consistency in the overall design and user experience for Cerner's Patient Portal and its family of applications. High focus on responsive web design and desktop application design. Uses Adobe Illustrator, Keynote, and Fireworks to create presentations, high-resolution desktop and mobile website mockups, application designs, and prototypes as well as Balsamiq and OmniGraffle to create wireframes, workflows, and information architecture diagrams.

Began freelancing May of 2009, awarded full-time position February 2010.

Uses Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects, Dreamweaver, and OmniGraffle to effectively define the usability and visual style of websites, email blasts, and motion graphics. Additionally, I work with my team to develop brand strategy and identities (logos, business cards, print collateral), snow boards, skate decks, t-shirts, and screen prints.

Used Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to design microsites, t-shirts, posters, and logos.

Hand-picked to join the four person student design team. Used Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to solve complex design challenges while staying in the school’s corporate style guide to craft postcards, posters, and ephemera to educate students, faculty, and others in the KCAI community regarding upcoming artist lectures, classes, shows, and student living.

Summer Graphic Design Intern focusing on music and underground culture. Updated online store through HTML and Photoshop. Designed t-shirts for various bands.