G Letorney

Principal, Visura Mobile Lab

SEPT 2019 - Current

Visura is a platform and toolset to share and discover long-form Visual Stories. As Principal of the Visura Mobile Lab, I lead a small team to design an app to empower our members with a mobile publishing studio, stats dashboard, easy search, and discovery tools. My role is balanced between Principal Product Designer and Design Manager.

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UX Lead

JULY 2017 - SEPT. 2019

Company
Shutterstock

Role
As UX Lead, I worked to identify opportunities and develop user centric, data driven products that pull business objectives forward.

Teams
 • Shutterstock CMS Platform
 • Shutterstock Plugins (2018-2019)  
 • Shutterstock Editorial (2017-2019)
 • Senior contributor to Shutterstock Design System (2017-2019)

Additional experience
 • UX Research
 • Coding internal tools
 • Data-driven discussion making
 • Agile, design thinking, and lean UX

Experienced engineer
 • JavaScript / React
 • CSS
 • PHP

Designs 
Available upon request

Lead UX Designer [start-up]

MAY 2010 - JULY 2017

Company
Visura

Role
As head of UX and Product, I led a small team to develop a platform for building websites and connecting with visual storytellers. This includes leading user experience design and a small engineering team in a strategic role, as well as contributing a significant amount of code to the project. My responsibilities included feature and revenue development, as well as all product management ceremonies.

Currently
Visura is a thriving, early-stage Start-up. I am currently contributing to the platform and operations.

See my work @ Visura.co.

Case study: Visura Site Builder

Faculty, MFA Program

JAN 2019 - MAY 2019

Program
SVA, MFA in Interaction Design, New York City

Role
Spring 2019, I tough Entrepreneurial Design and co-taught MFA Thesis.

Takeaways
While I gave a lot to my classes, I also learned a great deal about my craft and how to work with a large group of talented students. Mostly, I see my role as a curator of skills and good habits.

Deliverables 
Thesis Projects |  Entrep. Design Syllabus | Sample Lesson - Conversion Centered Design

Learn more
SVA IxD Website

Atomic by design

JULY 2017 - SEPT. 2019

Company
Shutterstock

Role
Senior contributor to the Shutterstock Design System (SDS).

Highlights
Created the SDS documentation website. Regularly create and optimize components. Lead the creation of a subset of SDS for Shutterstock's internal CMS.

Outcome
Hundreds of components, one awesome design system.

Large Scale Qual
& Quick Experiments

MAY 2010 - SEPT 2019

Companies
Shutterstock & Visura

Role
UX Research Lead.

Highlights
I have experience leading large scale, multi-month Qual research efforts and also specialize in quick, focused experiments aimed at learning one or two important facts to iterate quickly.

Outcome
More empathy, smarter products, better decision making.