Experience


Lead UX Designer @ Recurate June 2022 - Nov 2023
Brand integrated resale (P2P, brand supply & take back) Series A startup NYC, NY

Designed resale assets for brand-facing & consumer-facing web pages. Developed & refined transactional email processes and designs.

Built custom demos to assist the sales team in acquiring new partnerships. Led bi -weekly product team demos for the broader company.

Product Design Lead @ Bipty January 2021 - May 2022

P2P fashion rental platform Pre-seed stage startup LA, CA

Led & owned all web UX design + beginning stages of app development. Recruited & led virtual user testing for both web & mobile iterations.

Owned all marketing assets: IG content, TikTok content & email promotion.

Conducted extensive user & market research on fashion rental services.

Human Factors Design Engineer @ Medtronic 2021 - 2022

Global producer & manufacturer of medical devices MPLS, MN

Collaborated on product design & development of cardiovascular devices. Led UI & UX design for practitioner-facing & patient-facing console screens. Developed user test scripts and assisted in remote user testing.

Industrial Designer @ Abbott 2020

Global producer & manufacturer of medical devices ST. PAUL, MN

Collaborated with product design & human factors initiatives.

Performed market research on leading competitors & HF requirements.

Ideated phases of product development on foot pedal & remote controls.

Left after a few months to pursue masters degree.

Design Researcher @ Wearable Technology Lab 2018-2020

University of Minnesota College of Design funded lab ST. PAUL, MN

Assisted Smart Wardrobe team, creating digital garment features in CLO3D. Worked on PHD wearable tech garment experimentations & studies.

Education


University of Minnesota M.S. in Human Factors & Ergonomics 2020-2021

University of Minnesota B.S. in Product Design 2015-2020

Division I student-athlete Women’s gymnastics team
4x Co-Captain, 2x All-American, 2020 Big Ten Sportsmanship Honoree

Cerificates

Color trends, Fashion as Design, Sustainable Fashion

Other

Product Advisor @ LeOra Fashion Rental
Founder @ Our Colour Inclusive Athletic Tape

Skills: Figma, Adobe XD, journey mapping, user testing, Notion, Photoshop,

design sprints, Click-up, Miro, email management, beginner HMTL, R & Python


Strengths: creative, natural leader, goal-oriented, collaborative, observant,
strong under pressure, forward thinking, positive, communicative, self-motivated, extroverted, ability to pivot & adapt quickly, takes feedback well

Mary

Korlin-Downs


Mary

Korlin-Downs


Mary

Korlin-Downs