product designer
for the messy, high-stakes stuff

I distill ideas, create frameworks, and deliver products that matter.

Most designers wait for strategy to be handed to them. I create it and identify what actually drives value, backed by data with proven methodology. I love 0-to-1 work where business strategy and user experience have to be designed together, not separately.

McDonald’s Identity System: When friction and perception both break conversion

Built a comprehensive identity system converting 50M+ anonymous customers into loyalty members across 5 ordering channels and 100+ markets. After running discovery across behavioral, technical, and market dimensions, I uncovered a dual problem - functional friction and value perception gaps. Instead of forcing customers into the McDonald’s ecosystem, we brought McDonald’s into theirs. This work includes inverting the engagement model, creating a tiered customer segmentation framework, and a lasting system strategy.

A group of devices: Tablet, Desktop, Mobile Devices, Wearables, Laptop, displaying different UI patterns for a task management and communication tool.

Zebra Workcloud Sync: Fully integrated frontline operations

Designed an identity-centric data model where employee identity - not device - determines experience, enabling seamless transitions between desktop, tablet, mobile, and wearable throughout a shift. I also built an AI-powered assistance layer (Zebra Companion) that transforms routine interactions into intelligent, context-driven experiences. The platform consolidated execution, collaboration, and enablement into one connected ecosystem serving retail, healthcare, transportation, and logistics.

Salena Nop standing infront of a conference room with workshop materials behind her.

Motivation Framework: Uncovering frontline worker rewards and recognition incentives

Through this 2-day workshop, I led the design for a systematic framework to identify engagement drivers across 100+ disconnected products serving frontline workers in retail, healthcare, logistics, and transportation. I built a classification model distinguishing recognition, autonomy, mastery, and purpose, creating compound value through cross-platform synergies. This work became the foundation for subsequent projects for the company’s SaaS portfolio.

Zebra Timekeeping App

Designed timekeeping application for frontline workers to track and manage time while maintaining workplace compliance.

McDonald’s Consent System

Designed a dashboard reporting tool to help marketers optimize brand awareness, brand safety, and advertisement placement on YouTube.

Brandtrack by Pixability

Designed a dashboard reporting tool to help marketers optimize brand awareness, brand safety, and advertisement placement on YouTube.