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Rachel Woods
Product Designer with experience in research, interaction decisions, accessibility, and product outcomes. Practical work includes Product discovery, Interaction design, Prototyping, User research.
Experience
Adobe
New York · United States
Product Designer
Mar 2022 - now
- Used Figma prototyping to compare payment confirmation flows, including delayed and rejected transfers; tested whether participants understood the next action before committing to a screen design.
- Specified interaction design for amount entry, validation, and recovery, documenting focus order and error placement; gave engineering state-by-state behavior rather than only polished Figma frames.
- Carried a complex form from sketches through an interactive prototype, tested error recovery with users, and documented component states for engineering handoff.
- Owned an asset-search redesign using Figma wireframes and user research with 8 participants, increasing unassisted task completion from 5 to 7 in the follow-up prototype test.
- Released an accessibility handoff for the Adobe asset-management workflow, using keyboard tests to resolve hidden focus, ambiguous selection and unreadable error states.
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington · United States
Product Designer
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
- Audited keyboard, focus, and error behavior across 12 priority journeys. Kept the improvement stable through the follow-up review.
- Annotated the delivered design with spacing, type and interaction decisions, reviewed the first implementation with engineering, and corrected differences that affected comprehension or accessibility.
- Tested a revised layout with realistic long text, empty content and error states, annotated the places where the hierarchy broke down, and adjusted labels and spacing while preserving the established design system.
Selected project
Product Designer — independent case study
Project owner
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024
- Defined interaction and content patterns for 26 form components
- Created a self-directed design brief with a defined audience, content hierarchy and accessibility constraints; compared distinct visual directions using the same content rather than changing the message with each mockup.
- Checked the chosen design at its intended display or print size, annotated readability and contrast problems, and delivered editable source files with typography, color and export specifications.
- Owned the independent design review using actual-size proofs, resolved contrast and reading-order defects and completed an annotated before-and-after specification.
Education
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio · United States
B.S. Communication Design
Sep 2013 - Jun 2017
Relevant coursework: Typography, visual communication, interaction design, design research
Skills
Role expertise
Product discovery · Interaction design · Prototyping · User research · Accessibility · Design systems
Certifications
IAAP Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC)
International Association of Accessibility Professionals
Jun 2024
Publications
- Published a personal design case study using the prototype test record, explaining how audience needs changed the hierarchy and documenting the accessibility limits of the final design.


