Nicole Schmidt is a Senior UX Designer at Google at Google. She possess expertise in graphic design, web design, social media, adobe creative suite, indesign and 22 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "I managed Nicole for almost four years and worked with her directly on many projects. In that time, she grew her responsibilities and influence, achieving several promotions from Visual Designer to Senior Product Designer. Her skills range from design systems, prototyping, visual design, and product-related work. She designs to solve user problems in ways that are thoughtfully detailed, on brand, and feasible to build. Nicole was a motivated and hardworking member of the design/UX department. She would be a great addition to any team.", "Nicole is a seasoned Product Designer who takes a thoughtful and inclusive approach to problem-solving. Her decisions are deeply rooted in design and user principles, always putting the user first. Through this approach, her design direction and product vision ensure beautiful and highly efficient systems that positively impact client goals and user needs. She is well versed in User Experience, Product, and Visual Design best practices and is very comfortable crafting narratives and facilitating discussions informed by the higher-level strategic goals. When presented with a design challenge, she leaves no stone unturned. I saw this first hand while working together at Huge, where she led the creation of two design systems for Macquarie under my direction. Nicole helped set the vision for their digital experience, establishing a strong design language and building a component library that unified the Macquarie brand across properties. She also encouraged adoption by the client by creating clear and thorough documentation that defined requirements to maintain design integrity. Nicole is innovative, sincere, passionate, committed to the work and her teams. She isn’t afraid to take risks, fail, and be challenged by teammates and clients to think bigger and go bolder with solutions. She is a pleasure to work with as she brings incredible value to both projects and teams alike. It would be an absolute joy to be able to work with her again in the future.", and "Nicole is one the best designers I have had the pleasure of working with at Google. I collaborated closely with her for over 5 months while she worked as an embedded designer in the Ads UI team at Google. Her role, scope and responsibilities were similar to that of a full-time employee. Nicole’s design expertise, put-the-user-first attitude and ability to build consensus with cross-functional partners enabled her to quickly become an invaluable member of the team. She was tasked with leading the design effort to modernize the desktop Google.com search experience, increase user satisfaction and drive revenue growth (I was the product manager on the project). From day one, Nicole delivered pixel perfect mocks. Within a few weeks of working together, we developed a productive working relationship. I looked to her for design expertise and trusted her to always meet expectations. Moreover, Nicole’s attention to detail while not losing sight of the big picture made her an exceptional designer. Modernizing the desktop search experience is a complex task given the wide range of user journeys and scenarios. All of her decisions were intentional. Her designs came together in a way that helped improve the overall user experience for Google.com users. She was never designing isolated screens, but holistic user experiences while navigating complex engineering and product constraints. Furthermore, I was really impressed by Nicole’s ability to drive consensus at the highest levels of leadership. She was called upon multiple times each week to present her work to executive leadership at Google across multiple product organizations. She expertly communicated the thought process behind the designs, focusing on user value and alignment with product roadmap. Additionally, she was able to quickly adapt whenever we got feedback, a highly valued skill at Google. In a very short time, Nicole helped improve the user experience for a product that is used by billions of people worldwide. She strongly exceeded my expectations. I highly recommend her and would love to work with her again in the future."