Zakiya Brown
Product Designer · AI-Centered Experiences · Legal & Fintech Systems
Washington, DC · zakiyabrown01@outlook.com · 443.852.3664 · zakiyabrown.com (Contact for password) · linkedin.com/in/zakiyabrown
Professional Summary
Product Designer with 4+ years designing AI-powered products for legal and fintech workflows. A systems thinker who sweats the details — from early discovery through meticulous engineering handoff.
Experience
| Product Designer | Dec 2021 — Present |
Bloomberg Industry Group · Washington, DC
• Bloomberg Law's Workspaces Research Study: Led a 28-attorney research initiative that disproved a product hypothesis, moving fast from discovery to synthesis to executive recommendation, redirecting product strategy before significant engineering investment was made.
• Bloomberg Law's Workspaces Interface Design: Designed and executed a visual design exploration for an AI-powered legal workspace in Figma, translating research findings into high-fidelity UI concepts, interaction patterns, and component logic that demonstrated what the product could become.
• Bloomberg Law's Dockets: Designed and shipped an AI-powered complaint summarization feature driving a 7× increase in summary views and growing unique active users from 341 to 2,200 within 60 days of launch.
• Bloomberg Tax's Fixed Assets product: Designed an auto-generated scenario exploration engine which replaced a manual spreadsheet workflow; validated by SME testing as a high-value fintech strategy tool.
• Designed across Bloomberg Law and Bloomberg Tax's Provision and Fixed Assets products — most designers at Bloomberg work within a single product during their tenure, but multiple teams sought me out by reputation for my ability to learn new domains fast, define problem spaces, and deliver quality work.
• Contributed to Bloomberg's design system — building reusable Figma components and interaction patterns adopted across the product design team, maintaining consistency across multiple product lines.
| Web Designer & UX Strategist | Aug 2018 — Nov 2021 |
University of Maryland · College Park, MD
• Redesigned the UX and information architecture of a public-facing financial services portal serving 40,000+ students annually — increasing email engagement by 50% through redesigned templates, improved content hierarchy, and streamlined navigation across 15+ high-traffic pages.
Core Skills
| Tools | Figma · Miro · Prototyping · Design Systems |
| Design | Interaction Design · UI/UX · Visual Design · Information Architecture · Data Visualization |
| Research | Qualitative Interviewing · Concept Testing · Usability Testing · Participatory Design · Strategic Synthesis |
| Domain | Fintech · AI-Centered Experiences · Legal Tech · Enterprise Workflow Design · Consumer Product Design |
| Process | Agile · Systems Thinking · Cross-Functional Collaboration · Engineering Handoff · Stakeholder Alignment |
Education
Master of Arts in Integrated Design
University of Baltimore
Relevant coursework: Applied User Research · Interaction & Interface Design · Information Architecture · Visualization & Analysis · Web Development · Humans, Computers & Cognition
Bachelor of Arts, English Language and Literature, Writing
Gettysburg College