Emily Rodriguez
Ten years designing digital products that millions of people use every day. Emily leads all design at Vantade — from early-stage UX research and wireframing through to polished, production-ready design systems that developers love to build with.
About Emily
Emily started her career as a graphic designer before discovering a passion for interaction design — the point where visual communication meets human psychology. She spent five years at a leading UX agency in San Francisco, where she led redesigns for Fortune 500 clients and won two UX awards from the Interaction Design Association.
Her design philosophy is simple: every decision should be traceable back to a user need or a business metric. She runs discovery workshops, conducts usability tests, and reviews analytics data before touching any design tool. When she does open Figma, it's with a clear hypothesis about what will move the needle.
At Vantade, Emily is responsible for making sure every product the team ships is not only beautiful but genuinely usable. She has introduced an internal design system that has cut front-end development time by 35% and maintains a library of reusable, accessible components used across all client projects.
Design Expertise
Featured Work
EduSpark
Complete UX overhaul of an e-learning platform serving 400K students. Redesign increased course completion rates by 44%.
FoodFlow
End-to-end design for a food delivery app: discovery, ordering, and driver tracking. Achieved 4.8★ App Store rating from launch.
Vantade Design System
Internal component library with 120+ reusable, accessible components. Adopted across all Vantade projects, cutting design-to-dev handoff time by 35%.
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