Samantha Smith

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Senior Product Designer at JPMorgan Chase · Design systems · component libraries, tokens

JPMorgan Chase
Miami, FL · ET (UTC-5)
9+ years experience
Rhode Island School of Design
English, Spanish
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Overview

9 years in product design, the last 3 at JPMorgan Chase, where I work on the design systems team. Ran 89 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository. Shipped the design systems redesign that lifted task completion 17%. Before that: Reddit and Booking Holdings.

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Skills
component librariesaccessibilityFigmatokensdesign systems

Experience

  1. Senior Product Designer
    Jan 2024 - Present
    JPMorgan Chase · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Shipped the design systems redesign that lifted task completion 34%.
    • Built a component library 32 engineers ship with every day.
  2. Product Designer
    Jul 2020 - Oct 2023
    Reddit · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Shipped the design systems redesign that lifted task completion 37%.
    • Built a component library 73 engineers ship with every day.
  3. UX Researcher
    Jan 2018 - Jul 2020
    Booking Holdings · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Shipped the design systems redesign that lifted task completion 22%.
    • Built a component library 79 engineers ship with every day.

Projects

Design systems benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing tokens and accessibility on real workloads.

Write-up: design systems in practice
2026

A long-form guide to design systems for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Rhode Island School of Design
    BFA, Interaction Design
    2013 - 2017

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