Andrew Jaspersohn
Senior UX / Product Designer · AI Design Practitioner
Professional summary
Empathetic Senior UX and Product Designer with 6+ years of experience crafting intuitive digital products across mobile, web, and enterprise platforms. Expert practitioner of AI-assisted design workflows — leveraging Cursor and Figma Make to accelerate prototyping, build AI-friendly pattern libraries, and author internal tooling guides. Skilled at translating complex problems into elegant, user-centered solutions through rigorous research, rapid prototyping, and cross-functional collaboration. Track record of driving measurable improvements in usability, conversion, and engagement. Background in hospitality sharpens a genuine commitment to human-centered design.
Experience
Senior Experience Designer · Arity
- Own UX for all mobile applications, collaborating closely with stakeholders, engineering, product, and sales teams to drive cohesive outcomes and measurable improvements in user satisfaction.
- Lead end-to-end design process — from discovery and research through wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready specs — for mobile-first safety and mobility products.
- Champion design-system consistency across platforms, reducing design debt and accelerating developer handoff.
- Partner with data and product teams to define success metrics and validate design decisions through A/B testing and usability studies.
AI-Assisted Design & Tooling
- Expert-level practitioner of Cursor and Figma Make — using AI-assisted tooling to rapidly generate and iterate high-fidelity prototypes that drive faster stakeholder alignment and reduce design review cycles.
- Architected an AI-friendly component pattern library in Figma, structured with consistent naming conventions, tokenized properties, and rich annotations to optimize output quality from AI design tools and LLM-based workflows.
- Authored comprehensive Cursor user guides for design and product teams, covering prompt engineering best practices, component generation workflows, and integration with existing Figma design systems.
- Led cross-functional AI onboarding for marketing colleagues, upskilling non-designers into capable "super users" of AI design tools and enabling them to self-serve on lightweight creative needs.
- Created tone, voice, and brand-alignment skills/prompts for AI tooling, ensuring AI-generated content and design output consistently reflects brand standards across teams.
- Established repeatable AI-assisted design sprints that compress early-stage concepting from days to hours, freeing design capacity for higher-order UX strategy and research.
Experience Designer · Arity
- Redesigned and improved an internal advertising platform, collaborating with stakeholders, engineering, and marketing teams to enhance usability and streamline workflows for internal users.
- Conducted heuristic evaluations and user interviews to surface friction points, translating findings into actionable design improvements shipped within sprint cycles.
UX Designer & Product Manager · New American Stone Mills
- Streamlined desktop and mobile website user flow following in-depth heuristic analysis and user testing, reducing task completion friction across key journeys.
- Updated on-brand imagery and retooled UI elements for better storytelling and a frictionless user journey across digital and physical touchpoints.
- Integrated and iterated prototypes for new screens based on user testing, analytics, and stakeholder feedback.
- Developed customer-contact forms to enhance CX and support the sales team pipeline.
- Implemented SEO and analytics to improve findability, branding, and UX across company websites.
- Rewrote three 75-page installation, operation, and maintenance manuals for clarity, content accuracy, and brand consistency.
UX Design Immersive Fellow · General Assembly
- Completed a 12-week intensive UX design program covering user research, interaction design, prototyping, usability testing, and design thinking methodologies.
- Produced portfolio-ready case studies demonstrating end-to-end design process across a variety of product challenges.
Service Design & Lead Mixologist · Union Square Hospitality Group, New York, NY
- Cooperatively improved service processes to meet guest needs in a legendary Michelin-starred restaurant environment.
- Spearheaded staff spirit education seminars that doubled single-malt Scotch sales.
- Created bespoke cocktail programs generating consistent monthly sales exceeding $12k.
- Selected as restaurant representative for "Best American Restaurant Bar" nomination at Tales of the Cocktail, New Orleans.
- Co-authored new standards and procedures guide as an inaugural team member at the reopened Whitney Museum of American Art restaurant — one of Danny Meyer's latest ventures.
Skills & tools
- AI & Emerging Tools
- Cursor · Figma Make · Prompt Engineering · AI Pattern Libraries · LLM Workflow Design · Tone & Voice Skill Authoring · AI Onboarding & Enablement
- Design & Research
- UX/UI Design · Interaction Design · Information Architecture · User Research · Usability Testing · Heuristic Evaluation · Wireframing · Rapid Prototyping · Design Systems · Service Design · Content Strategy
- Tools
- Figma · Sketch · Adobe XD · InVision · Zeplin · Miro · Jira · Confluence · Google Analytics · Hotjar · Maze
- Additional
- SEO Strategy · Technical Writing · B2B SaaS · Mobile-First Design · Cross-functional Collaboration · Stakeholder Presentations · Agile/Scrum
Education
UX Design Immersive — General Assembly · 2022