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    Jana Stýblová

    Jana Stýblová (She/Her)

    0→1 Fractional Principal Product Designer ◾ NotebookLM, Google, Hulu, Thrive Global, Expa ◾ Former Founder ◾ Building from Scratch ◾ AI-Accelerated

    Creative Director Raleigh University of North C...
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    Projects
    Hoken — Tokenized Hotel Room Buy & Sell Marketplace
    UX / UI for Hotel Room Tokenization
    Head of Design · Founding Designer, lead a team of creatives, the Creative Direction and Product Design at Hoken while bridging the web3 + web2 gap and… · More re-envisioning the hotel room buy & *sell* experience. Launched gohoken.com, built sinews between luxury and utility, and crafted the first UX + UI around tokenization of hotel rooms.

    As Head of Design & Founding Designer: I defined the entire aesthetic world Hoken's visual, audible, and legible touch points. Learn more here: http://styblova.com/hoken

    Hoken is a first of its kind Hotel room selling & buying marketplace. I leaned heavily into web3 practices while bringing clear and concise UX to a brand new experience that has never existed for a user: a Stub-hub for hotel rooms at some of the hottest events in the US.

    + Creative Direction, Brand Guidelines, Brand Voice
    + Full Design System
    + Presentations & Pitch Decks for partnerships and investors
    + UI/UX and Architecture for Responsive Web app
    + Clickable Prototypes
    + E-commerce landing pages
    + Advertisements — Video, Google Ads, Social
    + Hired and scaled a Global design team
    Brightly
    Community app with a focus on living sustainably
    Design Director, Product Owner · Worked with the CEO to craft the design story and systems while building a community driven multi-platform of… · More discovery and group-chat, web and mobile apps focused on living sustainably while educating and empowering 15k+ users to live zero-waste lifestyles.

    + Full Design System
    + UI/UX and Architecture for iOS App
    + In-app and web-based e-commerce solutions
    + Shopify Design System and app integrations
    + Product management, global engineering team
    Thrive
    Next Generation Behavior Change via Mobile App
    Product Design Lead · Creating the next generation of behavior change products that transform your life, one small Better Choice at a time—a life coach… · More in your pocket, encouraging you to take your well-being journey at your own pace and celebrate your successes along the way. Worked with VP of Design & VP of Product at Thrive Global, chatted with Arianna Huffington, delivered a fully designed and user tested mobile app for Thrive Global in partnership with Walmart.

    + User Stories, User Surveys, User Interviews
    + Figma Full Design System
    + UI/UX and Architecture for iOS and Android Apps
    + Clickable Prototype
    + Iterative Relay and Handoff to PMs + Engineering Team
    Spot
    Make plans with friends and explore the world's best places.
    Head of Product & Design · Spot, an Expa start-up, was built to make exploring the real world easy and enjoyable by personalizing discovery. A web… · More and mobile app that collects all the places you and your friends love, helping you easily share and collaborate on new plans—travel the world together, or discover a friend-vetted nearby restaurant.

    Spot.com, an Expa startup founded by Garrett Camp, was built to make exploring the real world easy and enjoyable by personalizing discovery. Originally, a mobile app that collects all the places you and your friends love, helping you easily share and collaborate on new plans—travel the world together, or discover a friend-vetted nearby restaurant.

    I came onboard as a product strategist and marketing consultant, working with the Garrett, the CEO and the engineering team to overhaul their existing platform and brand, and create a end-to-end platform-agnostic scalable web-app. I created not only a new aesthetic and user-experience, but a fun and friendly dialogue with our users with an editorial twist. My responsibilities spanned the depths of product re-architecting, deep user and market research, crafting exciting user flows, copy writing, and re-designing a new product and a fully discovered design system in an already heavily saturated market. Competition, user-delight, functionality and technological capacity for growth, were things I thought about every day.

    Spot was paused due to lack of funding, a reality the majority of start-ups face, but nevertheless, I greatly enjoyed making planning and exploring a touch easier while I could.
    Fabl
    Tell compelling stories via Saas + Analytics
    Head of Design [Product Strategy + Creative Direction], Sketch App, Adobe Photoshop, Agile Methodologies · Fabl fosters instant connections between you… · More and your audience, with engaging and shareable visual storytelling across the web.

    A SaaS content marketing, management and publishing platform for the efficient production of highly engaging, data-driven content pages that scale.

    Over the years, I've been helping craft the user experience and art direction of Fabl, a new visual storytelling platform (SaaS) that drives content and social marketing campaigns, making it easy to create and publish compelling content and engage with customers authentically. Fabl synchronizes analytics on the back end, allowing adjustments throughout a campaign for maximum reach and impact. 

    Surfacing these analytics in new visually compelling ways, as well as providing for a streamlined way to build stories via a WYSWYG (what you see is what you get) architecture, while ensuring a seamless brand aesthetic, has been my main focus over the years. We're continuing to add some awesome functionality to the platform, so please stay tuned to this space!
    Groove / Talentlist.ai
    Helping companies & recruiters find vetted secret job-seeker
    Head of Product & Design, Sketch App, Adobe Photoshop, Trello · A B2B product utilizing both an administrative internal platform that makes it easy… · More to discover new talent, secretly searching for work, and a consumer (in this case, job-seeking talent who may not be keen to search publicly) based product, making it easy to instantly set up calls with internal company teams—side stepping traditional job search methods.

    As the sole product and creative lead, I crafted the full product architecture and UX / UI—creating a B2B2C platform from wireframe to polished web + mobile app—as well as the brand story: copy, creative aesthetic, and brand voice.

    view more: http://styblova.com/groove
    Matter.io
    A SaaS small-scale 3D modeling + printing service
    Head of Product · The first consumer facing product, a 3D-modeling web application for the small-scale production of physical products, with a SaaS and… · More e-commerce infrastructure.

    I helped orient the identity of the brand and architected the entirety of the user experience and user interface—a fully customized e-commerce experience that translated sketches and cad files into 3D printed models, metal objects, and eventually consumer products for the B2B customer.
    Daylight Digital
    The intersection of digital publishing + art as storytelling
    Art Director + Product Lead ( UX / UI ) · Daylight brings the world’s leading contemporary artists to you. Their immersive, short-form features provide… · More insider access to today’s most important artwork, contextualized with essays and insights by compelling writers.

    Daylight is the intersection between digital publishing, the timeless tradition of art as human storytelling, and a new generation of digitally enabled art consumers.

    With a start-up mentality and eager team of 6, I spearheaded the creative vision and strategy of Daylight, from visual identity to immersive iPad app.

    I crafted the brand positioning across social platforms, as well as worked on both the creative and language of all marketing collateral and campaigns.
    Peep
    A customized shopping experience.
    UX / UI Design, Art Direction · A localized shopping platform created for onsite perfect-fit shopping experiences

    Spearheaded the creative… · More direction and product design for an MVP that ultimately won a round of funding and helped the company for what eventually became Lily AI: a localized shopping platform created for onsite perfect-fit shopping experiences.
    Everist
    A productivity chat bot to help you get things done
    Art Director
    Victoria Secret Pink
    Various landing pages, apps and emails for the PINK customer
    Freelance Web Designer · PINK is the destination for cute bras, panties, college apparel and more! Shop a wide selection of fun and flirty styles today.
    Chance for Hulu
    A promotional website for the new series Chance
    Product Owner / Designer
    Fabl
    Marketers save time/money & increase conversions w/ Fabl
    Fabl is a rich media, cloud-based platform that streamlines the production of visually immersive content marketing campaigns, helping brands easily and… · More quickly bring stories to life and drive impact at-scale.
    Chris S
    Carl Licata
    Michael Itkoff
    Taj Forer
    With Taj Forer, Michael Itkoff, Carl Licata, Chris S
    Airphrame / Aerial.Live
    Drone Photography for scalable markets
    Lead UX / UI and Creative Director · Airphrame was an unmanned vehicle technology startup developing an aerial imaging and mapping service for… · More commercial markets. Created branding and full e-commerce experience for their responsive website.
     
    Experience
    Matter Neuroscience
    Matter Neuroscience
    Principal Designer 2023 - 2024 (over 1 year)
    Designing an iOS app that helps folks understand their brains, memories and emotions for longevity and happiness. Launched Beta in November 2023. Helping with:
    + Designing... more and shipping an iOS app involving complex UX that introduces and teaches users how their memories and positive emotions trigger neurotransmitter activity that ultimately improves their longevity
    + Design system, brand guidelines, social media posts for a brand new brand
    + User flows, product spec and URDs; deep engineer collaboration for ease-of-building in SwiftUI
    Hoken
    Hoken
    Head of Design 2022 - 2023 (8 months)
    Bridging the web3 + web2 gap and re-envisioning the hotel room buy & sell experience. Creating the first secondary marketplace for hotel rooms.
    Brightly
    Brightly
    Design Director 2021 - 2022 (about 1 year)
    Building a community driven multi-platform discovery and group-chat app focused on living sustainably while educating and empowering 6k+ users to live zero-​waste lifestyles.

    +... more Full Design System
    + UI/UX and Architecture for iOS App
    + In-app and web-based e-commerce solutions
    + Product management of engineering Team
    Open
    Open
    Lead Product & Brand Designer 2018 - 2020 (over 1 year)
    Advised on user testing, user experience and user acquisition for a mobile messaging app focused on encouraging friends to anonymously chat with one another: helping them... more say what they can't say. Advised on marketing copy, wrote taglines and in-app user-friendly dialogue strategies that encouraged smooth on-boarding, safety & security, and the importance of Open in an hugely saturated chat-app market. Designed the full system product UI and brand direction for both MVP and Pivoted Product.
    Fabl
    Exit
    Fabl
    Lead Product & Brand Designer 2013 - 2019 (over 6 years)
    Crafting the User Experience and product application of the Fabl, a new visual storytelling platform (SaaS) that drives content and social marketing campaigns, making it easy... more to create and publish compelling content and engage with customers authentically. Researching, designing and advising on scalable WYSIWYG drag-and-drop landing page building mechanisms.

    Also building projects for Fabl's clients, some of which include GE, Salon, and VentureBeat.
    Spot.com
    Spot.com
    Head of Design 2017 - 2018 (6 months)
    Worked with Garrett Camp, co-founder of Uber. Researched and created the design system, dashboards, user experience across brand + full product. Defined the brand aesthetic,... more voice & strategy while creating inspiring marketing campaigns.

    Redefined how people plan trips and experiences, allowing for seamlessly collaboration, sharing, and discovering great spots for outings, whether large or small—a tool that allows us to explore the world together and all in one place.

    http://styblova.com/spot
    Groove Technologies
    Groove Technologies
    Head of Design 2016 - 2017 (about 1 year)
    Designed and launched the first User and Enterprise Facing Products. Created the first full cross-platform and cross-consumer User Experience, Visual Aesthetic, and Marketing... more Direction of Groove, a series of recruiting and talent management solutions for the human capital cloud.
    Imperative
    Imperative
    Lead Product Designer 2015 - 2017 (about 2 years)
    Launched the first user-facing platform; overhauled the existing design aesthetic and user experience; created Imperative's first mobile-app.
    Matter.io (Acquired by Junction)
    Exit
    Matter.io (Acquired by Junction)
    Head of Design 2014 - 2015 (7 months)
    Designed and launched the first consumer facing product, a 3D-modeling web application for the small-scale production of physical products and their 3D printed counterparts.... more Created all elements of the user experience and product aesthetic.
    Infor
    Infor
    Art Director 2013 - 2014 (about 1 year)
    Lead a team of designers to push the boundaries of the Infor brand and it's products. Worked closely with the creative director to establish new marketing campaigns and design... more aesthetics. Lead the design overhaul of http://infor.com; a project spanning 1.5 years appropriately named "The Dream".
    Victoria's Secret
    Victoria's Secret
    Freelance Web Designer 2013 (2 months)
    Tourneau
    Tourneau
    Lead Interactive Designer 2011 - 2013 (over 1 year)
    Member of a team of 5 who launched the first Tourneau.com—in its time, an immersive e-commerce experience showcasing hundreds of luxury brands. Designed and developed interactive... more micro-sites and helped shape the visions of some of the largest watch brands in the world: Cartier, Tag Heuer, IWC, etc. Along side CCO, lead direction and creative strategy of the Tourneau brand and it's online presence.
    Founder
     
    Employee
    MakeSpace, Matter.io (Acquired by Junction), Fabl, Imperative, Groove Technologies, Infor, Victoria's Secret, Tourneau, Lux & Bird, Google, Memco Studio, Spot.com, Open, Brightly, Hoken, Matter Neuroscience
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    Advisor
     
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
    Mentor
     
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    Acquired
     
     
    About
    Achievements

    Founding Designer › Brand + Web2 + Web3 App for http://gohoken.com

    First e-comm site + community iOS app for https://brightly.eco

    Redesign of Thrive Global iOS App, clients Walmart and Sam's Club
    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/thrive/id1449069861

    First WYSWYG consumer + enterprise product SaaS B2B
    http://fabl.co

    First Desktop + Android app + re-brand http://spot.com

    Founding Designer › First Consumer + B2B Enterprise product. Clients include Paypal and Gap.
    http://groovebrands.com

    Founding Designer › First B2B facing product, acquired
    https://styblova.com/matterio

    Infor
    58 million users. SaaS and B2B apps

    Tourneau.com Awards:
    Hot 100 Sites Globally, Internet Retailer
    Mobile Retail Web Site of Year, 2012
    Best Retail Mobile Website, 2012 via Mobile WebAward
    Specialty Retailer of the Year, ACE Awards, 2011

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Adobe Creative Suite Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator User Experience Design Web Design Creative Direction Creative Problem Solving Creative Strategy Art Direction Lean Startups Social Media Marketing UI/UX Design User Interface Design Design Information Architecture User Flows Visual Design User Interface Interaction Design Start-Ups Wireframing Branding Graphic Design Logo Design User Testing User Validation & Testing User Experience Strategy User Experience Research NFT's Cryptocurrencies Cryptocurrency trading Cryptocurrency implementation in Business Product Design SaaS B2B B2C
    Locations
    Remote New York City
     
    Q&A
    What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

    Not a "business" book: however, in regards to assessing people's core intentions, subconscious motivations, and resulting application methods—all of which are components of business relationships—I would recommend "Denial of Death" by Ernest Becker.

    If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

    Essentially, what I'm doing now: a bit of design, a bit of working on an album, a bit of music production. And perhaps a hell of a lot more travel. : )

    What words of advice would you give your younger self?

    Everything is malleable; you create your own reality.

    What's the most creative thing you've ever done?

    For nearly 2 years, I've been heavily immersing myself in all aspects, not just composition and arrangement, but engineering and production, of an album. It's creative in itself, but learning to balance that with life and work has been most creative.

     
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