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I'm Heather Ostertag, a designer based in Chicago, IL

From wireframes to prototypes, I craft intuitive interfaces that seamlessly connect users with innovative solutions.

About

Product Designer  |  Experience Designer  |  Information Architect  |  Interaction Designer  |  Experience Architect  |  User Interface Designer |  User Experience Designer

As a part of a centralized UX/UI team, I am versed in:

  • Functioning as both an individual contributor and project leader, guiding a team of designers and researchers.
  • Managing and executing design work from project goals to execution, validation, and final handoff to engineers.
  • Working with product managers and other stakeholders to define project requirements and roadmaps.
  • Understanding and balancing business, user, and technical requirements.
  • Delivering experiences that are optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces, including mobile, tablet, and desktop.
  • Facilitating the adoption of UX and design thinking within my teams.
  • Developing interns and junior designers and contributing to the advancement of the design practices within the Global UX Team.
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Heather Creating web assets

As a Senior Product Designer I have the following background:

  • Proven experience in leading UX/UI projects across the whole design process.
  • Awareness in the following: Research Visual Design, Interaction Design, Content , Service Design
  • Mastery in the most common design tools and am up to date with industry standards.
  • Ability to articulate design decisions and communicate to clients stake holders and managers.
  • Openess to receiving and providing constructive feedback
  • Proactive and experimental mindset.
  • Excellent leadership skills and the ability to make autonomous decisions.
  • Alignment with current principles; customer-centric, lean, service- oriented architecture, self-motivated, and transparent.

My past work experience

7+ years of design experience. Every place I have worked contributed to shaping me into the designer I am today.

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Foundry
2022 / 2023

Senior Product Designer

Lead designer and product design manager. Specializing in design, strategy, and research.

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H Designs
2020 / 2021

Senior Graphic Designer

Contract designer producing physical and digital products for clients. Guiding product design from conception with design principles.

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Generation Moonshot
2019 / 2020

Senior Graphic Designer

Created websites and branding for a variety of clients. From marketing to web design and everything in-between.

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University of Wisconsin - Stout
2017 / 2018

Undergraduate Graphic Designer

Worked for the marketing department to create compelling digital and print assets to be used around campus and online.

Interested in working together? Get in touch today.

Let's collaborate and create solutions that make the complex simple, and the ordinary extraordinary.