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Resume

Below you will find my professional resume, which not only outlines skills, education, and experience but also work history. If you have any questions, please contact me.

To balance your deep visual expertise with your strategic system-building skills, the most powerful industry title is Senior UI/UX Product Designer. This title signals that you possess “Full-Stack” design capabilities: the ability to handle high-level user logic (UX), pixel-perfect interface craft (UI), and the technical systems that connect them.

Elissa Torgeson

Bremerton, WA 98310 | 360.471.7077 | elissa.torgeson@gmail.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/elissa-torgeson | Portfolio: elissatorgeson.com

Senior UI/UX Product Designer | Design Systems & Infrastructure

B.S. User Experience Design

Technical Design Leader with 10+ years of experience architecting high-fidelity user interfaces and scalable digital systems. Expert in UI/UX Infrastructure, specializing in the creation of comprehensive design tokens, component libraries, and interaction models that bridge the gap between creative vision and production code. Proven track record at Netflix of defining design-to-engineering ecosystems that elevate product quality and cross-platform consistency. A data-driven problem solver who combines a B.S. in UX Design with deep technical fluency in Unity, Figma, and front-end implementation.

Core UI/UX Competencies

  • Design Foundations: Scalable UI Systems, Token Architecture, Component Governance, Atomic Design.

  • UX Strategy & Research: Heuristic Evaluation, User Journey Mapping, Information Architecture, Usability Testing.

  • Technical Implementation: Figma-to-Code Pipelines, Unity UI Integration, Perforce/Git, HTML5/CSS3.

  • Leadership: Staff-level Mentorship, Technical UX Documentation, Cross-functional Strategy, Agile/Scrum.

Professional Experience

Netflix (Mobile Social Gaming) | Los Gatos, CA Sr. UI/UX Product Designer / Design Systems Lead | April 2022 – October 2024

  • UI/UX System Architecture: Governed global design frameworks for high-profile Netflix IPs (Money Heist, Netflix Stories), creating a centralized system of tokens and modular components that ensured brand parity across global releases.

  • Technical UI Bridge: Optimized handoff processes by integrating high-fidelity interaction models into Unity via Perforce, reducing engineering friction and increasing implementation speed by 30%.

  • Data-Driven Design: Spearheaded the creation of scalable UI/UX standards, utilizing user data and heuristic analysis to automate repetitive design tasks and focus on solving complex user pain points.

  • Technical Mentorship: Led a multidisciplinary team to increase technical fluency in implementation constraints, fostering a high-performance “Design Engineering” culture.

Bossfight Entertainment | Allen, TX Senior UI/UX Designer (Systems & Tooling) | March 2021 – March 2022

  • Infrastructure Design: Developed modular UI/UX interaction libraries for leading-edge mobile platforms, ensuring intuitive and consistent user journeys across global product releases.

  • Tooling Collaboration: Partnered with Software Engineers to build automation for asset optimization, ensuring UI intent remained intact through the technical implementation phase.

DoubleDown Interactive | Seattle, WA Senior UI/UX Designer | January 2020 – March 2021

  • Process Engineering: Established a cohesive design-to-engineering ecosystem using Unity and Adobe Creative Suite, significantly increasing team velocity and UI consistency.

  • System Governance: Managed the end-to-end UI/UX lifecycle for multiple digital brands, balancing high-fidelity aesthetics with rigid performance and usability constraints.

DoubleDown Interactive | Seattle, WA Web Developer II / UI/UX Marketing Artist | July 2016 – January 2020

  • Front-End Implementation: Built interactive, responsive web platforms using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, ensuring high-quality UI/UX across diverse browser environments.

  • UX Prototyping: Engineered high-fidelity, code-based prototypes that served as functional blueprints for global web product releases.

Education & Certifications

Bachelor of Science: User Experience Design Western Governors University | Graduated 2025

Google UX Design Professional Certificate Coursera.org | Completed 2025

Associate in Applied Science: Web Design Seattle Central College | Graduated 2015

Technical Toolkit

  • Design: Figma (Expert: Tokens, Variables, Auto-Layout), Zeplin, Adobe Creative Suite.

  • Technical Implementation: Unity (Technical UI), Perforce, GitHub, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript.

  • Frameworks: WCAG 2.1 Accessibility, Design Systems, Agile/Scrum, Heuristic Auditing.