About Me

As the Lead Designer at Pana, I have been helping pioneer the Design processes and Design Systems in a small Product Team. When Covid started taking hold last March, we made a large pivot to deliver a completely new product. Despite being a travel start-up in unprecedented times for business travel, we were able to successfully launch a new product that ultimately led to Pana being acquired by Coupa Software in early 2021. 

When I first moved to Denver, I was recruited to be a Senior UX Design Consultant at Google for their enterprised payments team. Our team was paving the way for a better enterprise experience within the Google Pay platform. I was in charge of design for a new internal tool to handle invoice disputes.

Before Google, I was working for Nordstrom Trunk Club as a Senior Product Designer. At Trunk Club, I helped lead the way on several successful product features and helped level up our design team's prototyping process and file naming conventions.

I am originally from Fairbanks, Alaska but I moved to Seattle, Washington after graduating from high school to pursue my passion for music. It was through helping my various bands with t-shirt and poster designs that I started to explore the world of Design.

In 2010, I started school at the University of Washington, and in the spring of 2011, I was accepted into the highly competitive design program where I decided to focus on Interaction Design. 

I am very passionate about thoughtful, simple, tested, and well-researched solutions. I believe good design comes from collaboration across teams (not just from designers) and rapid iteration with stakeholders and engineers. 

If you are interested in learning more about my work, feel free to reach me at chriscurry1@gmail.com or connect with me on LinkedIn.