Karin Kotani

Senior Product Designer at Rasa
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(386) 825-5501
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Germany, DE

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Experience

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Product Designer
      • Jul 2021 - Present

      - Leading the design of the new feature to help enterprise customers build a bot. - Conducted qualitative UX research to better understand the problem space, synthesized the insights, and used those insights to define and prioritize the problems to solve. - Successfully involved many other stakeholders to the design process by facilitating the discovery or ideation workshops, and organizing the design critique sessions. - Gained knowledge about Conversation Design, ML, Rasa Open… Show more - Leading the design of the new feature to help enterprise customers build a bot. - Conducted qualitative UX research to better understand the problem space, synthesized the insights, and used those insights to define and prioritize the problems to solve. - Successfully involved many other stakeholders to the design process by facilitating the discovery or ideation workshops, and organizing the design critique sessions. - Gained knowledge about Conversation Design, ML, Rasa Open Source, and Generative AI to design a feature and help customers build a high quality bot. - Successfully delivered the new feature designs and communicated the solutions to the team as well as to the customers. Show less - Leading the design of the new feature to help enterprise customers build a bot. - Conducted qualitative UX research to better understand the problem space, synthesized the insights, and used those insights to define and prioritize the problems to solve. - Successfully involved many other stakeholders to the design process by facilitating the discovery or ideation workshops, and organizing the design critique sessions. - Gained knowledge about Conversation Design, ML, Rasa Open… Show more - Leading the design of the new feature to help enterprise customers build a bot. - Conducted qualitative UX research to better understand the problem space, synthesized the insights, and used those insights to define and prioritize the problems to solve. - Successfully involved many other stakeholders to the design process by facilitating the discovery or ideation workshops, and organizing the design critique sessions. - Gained knowledge about Conversation Design, ML, Rasa Open Source, and Generative AI to design a feature and help customers build a high quality bot. - Successfully delivered the new feature designs and communicated the solutions to the team as well as to the customers. Show less

    • Germany
    • Financial Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Product Designer
      • Apr 2020 - Jun 2021

      - Led the design of Cooler Future (the impact investing app) from research and concept to prototyping and testing. - Introduced and managed design library. - Defined and managed the product roadmap together with CEO and techlead. - Documented the test cases and took responsibility for QA testing. - Led the design of Cooler Future (the impact investing app) from research and concept to prototyping and testing. - Introduced and managed design library. - Defined and managed the product roadmap together with CEO and techlead. - Documented the test cases and took responsibility for QA testing.

    • Germany
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 500 - 600 Employee
    • Product Designer
      • Jan 2018 - Mar 2020

      - Led the design of Bertha, the mobile app that allows users to search for cheap gas, get discounts and pay for gas from inside the car. - Conducted user testing and user interviews and iterated the design based on feedback from users and the team. - Mentored working students and interns. - Facilitated the ideation sessions to brainstorm the design and feature concepts together with other designers, developers, product manager, scrum master, and more. - Created wireframes and… Show more - Led the design of Bertha, the mobile app that allows users to search for cheap gas, get discounts and pay for gas from inside the car. - Conducted user testing and user interviews and iterated the design based on feedback from users and the team. - Mentored working students and interns. - Facilitated the ideation sessions to brainstorm the design and feature concepts together with other designers, developers, product manager, scrum master, and more. - Created wireframes and prototypes to test my ideas. - Successfully launched the app and new features. - Updated and maintained the design library. - Wrote user stories and did QA. - Worked in an Agile environment. Show less - Led the design of Bertha, the mobile app that allows users to search for cheap gas, get discounts and pay for gas from inside the car. - Conducted user testing and user interviews and iterated the design based on feedback from users and the team. - Mentored working students and interns. - Facilitated the ideation sessions to brainstorm the design and feature concepts together with other designers, developers, product manager, scrum master, and more. - Created wireframes and… Show more - Led the design of Bertha, the mobile app that allows users to search for cheap gas, get discounts and pay for gas from inside the car. - Conducted user testing and user interviews and iterated the design based on feedback from users and the team. - Mentored working students and interns. - Facilitated the ideation sessions to brainstorm the design and feature concepts together with other designers, developers, product manager, scrum master, and more. - Created wireframes and prototypes to test my ideas. - Successfully launched the app and new features. - Updated and maintained the design library. - Wrote user stories and did QA. - Worked in an Agile environment. Show less

    • Product Designer
      • Jul 2017 - Jan 2018

      - Led the design of web platform to connect office manager and cleaning service provider. - Collaborated with CEO, product managers and developers to work on concept and user flow of the new B2B SaaS product. - Iterated the style guide and UI design of the existing website and successfully launched the new design. - Led the design of web platform to connect office manager and cleaning service provider. - Collaborated with CEO, product managers and developers to work on concept and user flow of the new B2B SaaS product. - Iterated the style guide and UI design of the existing website and successfully launched the new design.

    • Germany
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Partner Management
      • Aug 2014 - Jul 2016

    • United States
    • Design Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Social Media Marketing and Graphic Design Intern
      • Nov 2013 - May 2014

    • United States
    • Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
    • Curator Assistant Intern
      • Feb 2014 - Apr 2014

  • Aaron Wexler
    • Greater New York City Area
    • Artist’s Assistant Intern
      • Aug 2012 - Jan 2013

Education

  • Marymount Manhattan College
    Bachelor's degree, Graphic Design
    2012 - 2013
  • Career Foundry
    UX Design
    2016 - 2017
  • Lakeland University Japan (LUJ)
    Associate's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
    2009 - 2011

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