Paul Salva

SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER

SKILLS & PROFICIENCY

Product Design
- UI/UX Design
- Wireframing, Prototyping
- Interaction Design
- Competitive Analysis
- User Testing Coordination
- UX Research (Quantitative, Qualitative)
- Information Architecture
- Conceptual Ideation


Product Management
- Roadmapping
- Market Analysis
- Project Management (Agile/Scrum)
- Metrics & Analytics
- Product Vision
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Accessibility and Compliance Auditing

CERTIFICATIONS

Pragmatic Institute Product Management PMC-1
Google UX Design Professional

RECOGNITION

FWA Awards
Webby Awards
Awwwards
Promax

SOFTWARE COMPETENCY

UX / Product
Figma · Jira · Confluence · Notion · Miro · Mural · Overflow · Zeplin

Web / CMS
Webflow · Shopify · Squarespace · WordPress · Wix

AI / GenAI
ChatGPT · Google Labs · ChatGPT Playground · Deep Research Prompting · Code Agents · GitHub Copilot · Automation & Integration Workflows · Runway · Veo · Suno · ElevenLabs · MidJourney

Visual & Motion
Photoshop · Illustrator · InDesign · After Effects · Premiere · Sketch

PROJECTS

Verizon portal: immersive 360° multi-view virtual events

UX design, design system maintenance, user testing and more for Verizon’s “Portal” mobile web and app experience. The Portal allows an immersive 360° multi-camera view for sponsored events (Indy 500, Latin Grammy’s, Superbowl LVI and Phoenix Suns) and features augmented reality and geofencing components.

walmart gamified shopping experiences

Ideation, UX research and design for two separate augmented reality apps for Walmart. Developed in a working partnership with Walmart’s Innovation team, these prototypes featured a gamified retail experience allowing users to earn products and discounts for achieving activity milestones in the app.

Rangers wanted: Teddy roosevelt presidential library educational app

Competitive analysis, UX research and ideation for this augmented reality education app, developed in partnership between Trigger, Niantic and the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library. Helped to ensure privacy and safety (COPPA compliance) and strategize game mechanics.

B2b SOLUTIONS FOR INSURANCE CARRIERS: GUIDEWIRE

From start to finish: UX research, ideation, wireframing, UI and UX design, product management for several B2B products servicing commercial and personal insurance carriers, agents and their customers using Guidewire’s InsuranceNow platform.

QUALCOMM x snapdragon: ar cooking utility (HMD)

Creative ideation, VR wireframing, testing and product management for this augmented reality cooking utility developed on the ThinkReality A24 head-mounted device. This project provided great insight on UI/UX design for spatial environments.

Verizon Proof-of-concept “The future of training”

User acceptance testing, UX design and product management for this Verizon proof-of-concept developed in partnership with subject matter experts from the University of Hawaii football team. Prototyped on Snapdragon and the Lenovo ThinkReality A3 glasses.

HULU: THE SCREAMLANDS

Hulu (“The Screamlands”)