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Hi, I’m Nader Nakhla, a Senior UX Designer with 15+ years of experience crafting intuitive, accessible digital products across enterprise SaaS, fintech, and higher education. I specialize in end-to-end product design, user research, interaction design, and design systems. I’m an early adopter of AI-augmented design, leveraging Cursor AI, Claude, and Figma to accelerate workflows and improve design-to-development efficiency. I thrive collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to deliver user-centered solutions and scalable design systems. I’ve led AI-first initiatives at major fintech and education-focused organizations, driving usability improvements, accessibility, and consistency across platforms. My approach blends research insights with practical design deliverables—wireframes, prototypes, journeys, and documentation—while promoting design best practices and cross-team collaboration. In my spare time, I enjoy exploring new design tools and AI-assisted workflows to keep delivering delightful, inclusive experiences.…Hi, I’m Nader Nakhla, a Senior UX Designer with 15+ years of experience crafting intuitive, accessible digital products across enterprise SaaS, fintech, and higher education. I specialize in end-to-end product design, user research, interaction design, and design systems. I’m an early adopter of AI-augmented design, leveraging Cursor AI, Claude, and Figma to accelerate workflows and improve design-to-development efficiency. I thrive collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to deliver user-centered solutions and scalable design systems. I’ve led AI-first initiatives at major fintech and education-focused organizations, driving usability improvements, accessibility, and consistency across platforms. My approach blends research insights with practical design deliverables—wireframes, prototypes, journeys, and documentation—while promoting design best practices and cross-team collaboration. In my spare time, I enjoy exploring new design tools and AI-assisted workflows to keep delivering delightful, inclusive experiences.

Nader Nakhla

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Hi, I’m Nader Nakhla, a Senior UX Designer with 15+ years of experience crafting intuitive, accessible digital products across enterprise SaaS, fintech, and higher education. I specialize in end-to-end product design, user research, interaction design, and design systems. I’m an early adopter of AI-augmented design, leveraging Cursor AI, Claude, and Figma to accelerate workflows and improve design-to-development efficiency. I thrive collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to deliver user-centered solutions and scalable design systems. I’ve led AI-first initiatives at major fintech and education-focused organizations, driving usability improvements, accessibility, and consistency across platforms. My approach blends research insights with practical design deliverables—wireframes, prototypes, journeys, and documentation—while promoting design best practices and cross-team collaboration. In my spare time, I enjoy exploring new design tools and AI-assisted workflows to keep delivering delightful, inclusive experiences.…Hi, I’m Nader Nakhla, a Senior UX Designer with 15+ years of experience crafting intuitive, accessible digital products across enterprise SaaS, fintech, and higher education. I specialize in end-to-end product design, user research, interaction design, and design systems. I’m an early adopter of AI-augmented design, leveraging Cursor AI, Claude, and Figma to accelerate workflows and improve design-to-development efficiency. I thrive collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to deliver user-centered solutions and scalable design systems. I’ve led AI-first initiatives at major fintech and education-focused organizations, driving usability improvements, accessibility, and consistency across platforms. My approach blends research insights with practical design deliverables—wireframes, prototypes, journeys, and documentation—while promoting design best practices and cross-team collaboration. In my spare time, I enjoy exploring new design tools and AI-assisted workflows to keep delivering delightful, inclusive experiences.

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Hi, I’m Nader Nakhla, a Senior UX Designer with 15+ years of experience crafting intuitive, accessible digital products across enterprise SaaS, fintech, and higher education. I specialize in end-to-end product design, user research, interaction design, and design systems. I’m an early adopter of AI-augmented design, leveraging Cursor AI, Claude, and Figma to accelerate workflows and improve design-to-development efficiency. I thrive collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to deliver user-centered solutions and scalable design systems.

I’ve led AI-first initiatives at major fintech and education-focused organizations, driving usability improvements, accessibility, and consistency across platforms. My approach blends research insights with practical design deliverables—wireframes, prototypes, journeys, and documentation—while promoting design best practices and cross-team collaboration. In my spare time, I enjoy exploring new design tools and AI-assisted workflows to keep delivering delightful, inclusive experiences.

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Work Experience

Senior UX Designer at Nextiva

August 1, 2021 - Present

Led the adoption of AI-first design workflows by integrating Cursor AI and Claude into daily processes—leveraging AI to generate component code, refine design system tokens, and automate accessibility checks, reducing design-to-development handoff time. Led the design of a broad range of app features, driving innovation in user experience and product usability and accessibility. Worked on Contacts management, Calendar, Integrations and the mobile unified communication app.

Senior UX Designer at PayPal

September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2021

Leading UX efforts across multiple CFS projects, driving discussion and activities, while participating in delivery, planning and coordination. Determine overall direction by identifying the experience pain points and design opportunities. Present a set of UX design solutions using established UX techniques and deliverables, encourages artifact reuse and consistency across team members and projects. Contributes to the UX community of practice through the adoption of new technologies and methodology.

Senior UX Designer at USC Information Technology Services (ITS)

January 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020

Contracted as Senior UX Designer to work on 5 projects OLF, GRS, WebReg, FAST and Oasis. Work with the User Experience Lead and Product Managers to translate complex business requirements and user goals into intuitive user interfaces and interactions. Create user journeys, personas, wireframes, interactive prototypes and the mobile user experience. Build a unique user experience storyboard to help understand the users and shape the product strategy, visualize user journey to keep a consistent user experience across all projects.

Senior UX Designer at H&Y Planning, Inc.

February 1, 2012 - January 31, 2019

Responsible for user experience design, information architecture, interaction and visual design, prototyping and user testing across web and mobile products for Zojirushi, JNTO, Mazda and Morinaga. Create user journeys, personas, wireframes, interactive prototypes. Help understand the users and shape the product strategy. Agile product design workflow. Conceptualized and managed the firm's marketing materials.

Art Director at PI Adv.

February 1, 2008 - June 30, 2010

Proposed and implemented a new site architecture and navigation scheme for the company website. Designed web interfaces and UI design solutions. Animated banners and digital advertising solutions. Designed a wide variety of projects for clients, worked closely with Creative directors, Editorial and Production staff. Help define a brand’s visual language across a range of media.

UX Designer at H&Y Planning, Inc.

February 1, 2012 - January 1, 2019

Designed UX/UI for web and mobile products for clients including Mazda, Zojirushi, and JNTO. Led user research, prototyping, and usability testing. Developed user journeys and information architecture. Supported agile product development workflows.