Gabriel Friedman

Designer | Founder | Gardener

Brooklyn, New York, United States

About

Experienced generalist: Product Design, UX/UI, visual design. Helped found Naked Apartments, NYC's #1 rentals-only site, acquired by Zillow in 2016.

Experience

  • Product Designer at Freelance
    Jan 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 6 mos

  • Freelance UX Designer at Gabriel Friedman Design
    Feb 2009 - Present · 17 yrs 5 mos

    Designed a variety of web, print and digital marketing materials for small and medium-sized businesses, including: Audible, Avant, Criterion, Sesame Street, Stanford University, Instinet, Goldman Sachs, Discovery Channel, ESPN, Pepsi, Nature Conservancy, WNET, Dilbert and Mountain Dew.

  • Senior UX Designer at Shaw Industries
    Dec 2023 - Jul 2024 · 8 mos

    Redesigned shawfloors.com, Shaw Industries' main consumer-facing e-commerce site, and andersentuftex.com, their premium-offerings site. - conducted extensive internal and external interviews - designed and implemented user testing of key UI/UX directions - presented interview and testing results to C-suite management - produced comprehensive wireframes and prototypes - designed and maintained asset ibrary and design system to guide development

  • Lead UX Designer at Norfolk Southern
    Mar 2023 - Jan 2024 · 11 mos

  • Zillow (3 yrs 1 mo)
    • Senior Product Designer
      Feb 2017 - Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      - Lead site and app design - Overhauled site SEO for improved organic traffic - Designed rental lottery app to improve on the NYC lottery process

    • Design Manager
      Feb 2016 - Feb 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

      - Revamped design, improving organic traffic on key pages by 50-100% - Conducted extensive user testing - Overhauled email campaigns leading to improved CTR - Managed remote coders