Mark
Hobbs

Full
Stack
Designer.

      — Experienced  —   —Adaptable —         — Collaborative —

Principal Product Designer with 18+ years of experience creating intuitive, scalable, and visually refined digital products across multiple industries. I lead design from early strategy through launch, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver experiences that are as functional as they are beautiful. My approach blends user-centered thinking, strong systems design, and iterative refinement to solve complex problems with clarity and craft.

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Proficiencies

Product Design

UX/UI

Platform Design

HTML

CSS/SCSS

Systems Thinking

Design Systems

Responsive Design

a11y Design

Figma

Sketch

Adobe CC

Prototyping

User-Focused

Work
Experience.

hobbs.design

Principal Designer

Dec 2024 — present
  • Led end-to-end design for white-label, consumer-facing financial customer acquisition funnel platform.
  • Crafted and scaled a modular UI system (Atomic Design) allowing custom theming and consistent brand expression across client touchpoints.
  • Created high-fidelity prototypes and design presentations to align stakeholders on design direction.
McGraw Hill Education

Senior User Experience Designer

December 2022 - December 2024
  • Co-led the Teacher Experience Design team for the Educational Content Delivery Platform, driving strategy and execution for K-12 digital tools.
  • Partnered with instructional designers, academic leads, engineers, and product managers to deliver user-centered, accessible learning experiences.
  • Designed features that improved classroom efficiency, content discoverability, and teacher workflow speed.
  • Enhanced visual accessibility by aligning patterns and flows with WCAG 2.1 guidelines.
  • Iterated on UI patterns using data-driven insights, creating scalable design systems for cross-product consistency.
  • Redesigned components to achieve Accessibility Compliance certification.
Union Home Mortgage

Senior Product Designer

April 2021 - December 2022
  • Designed and refined complex financial lending workflows, improving task accuracy and trust through well-crafted interactions and micro-copy.
  • Integrated decision prompts to guide users through sensitive financial contexts, reducing error rates.
  • Advocated for WCAG accessibility standards, ensuring inclusive consumer-facing products.
  • Accelerated product validation by implementing multi-concept prototyping with direct user and stakeholder feedback loops.
  • Built a Figma-based design system with SCSS design tokens, streamlining engineering handoff and reducing delivery time.
  • Designed direct-to-consumer mortgage funnels and self-help application flows to optimize customer acquisition.
Robots & Pencils

Senior Product Designer

December 2018 - April 2020
  • Collaborated with startup clients on 0-1 product launches, with a strong emphasis on usability, accessibility, interface simplicity, and design craft.
  • Led UX/UI strategy and design for apps and enterprise tools across multiple industries.
  • Delivered user flows, interactions, and prototypes to agile engineering teams providing continuous support throughout the development life cycle.
  • Mentored and led client product design teams with a focus on fundamental design skills.
OZY Media

Design Director

January 2018 - December 2018
  • Increased user engagement by 30% through targeted email design initiatives and improved interactive experiences.
  • Led digital design for online properties and native iOS applications, enhancing overall usability and functionality.
  • Collaborated with advertisers to create custom integrated ad placements, boosting brand awareness and revenue.
  • Designed custom event websites to showcase content and sponsorship opportunities.
CBS Interactive

Lead UX/UI Designer & Art Director

February 2011 - January 2018
  • Led UX and visual design for CNET.com News improving engagement and interaction.
  • Consistenly grew the user base through iterative feature launches, A/B testing, and data-driven design.
  • Designed and developed reusable product feature components, reducing build time and increasing ad-driven revenue by 25% over four years.
  • Advocated for visual consistency by scaling design standards and editorial product guidelines across CBS properties.
  • Designed content-forward editorial special features with a focus on narrative stroytelling, discovery and reader retention.
  • Collaborated with editorial, product, and marketing teams to elevate content presentation across web and mobile.
Professional Photographers of America

Graphic Designer

September 2006 - February 2011
  • Designed marketing campaigns, tradeshow materials, and digital assets to promote membership and engagement.
  • Increased membership by 20% (to over 20,000 members) through targeted design initiatives.
  • Produced visually compelling layouts and graphics supporting brand awareness across print and digital.