Complicated, made simple.

SR/LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER

Guiding product direction and leading teams to ship clear, reliable tools that align user needs, business goals, and engineering constraints.

MY WORK +

MY WORK +

Blackhawk Network | January 2024

Homepage conversion overhaul

This project focused on rethinking the Giftcards.com homepage to reduce friction in the purchasing experience. By simplifying navigation, clarifying value propositions, and streamlining key decision moments, the redesign created a more focused path to checkout and drove a significant increase in conversion.

+82%

increase in sales

Blackhawk Network | Jan 2026

This was a classic UX vs. regulation tradeoff. I redesigned the My Prepaid Center registration flow to reduce user confusion while meeting strict banking requirements around billing information and cardholder agreement consent. By collapsing fragmented paths into two clear, approval-ready flows, the design enabled faster card activation without compromising compliance.

Compliance-first onboarding

bank approvals

2

Blackhawk Network | June 2024

This project unified three fragmented gift card PDPs into a single adaptive flow, reducing friction during personalization while maintaining fraud safeguards through locked credentials until redemption. The redesign reduced drop-off in the customization step and improved overall completion of the gift card purchase flow.

Reducing Gift Card Drop-Off

2x

reduction in cart abandonment

My skills

Meet Nicole Vien

I’m a designer with a focus on interaction design, ux research, and content strategy out of Austin, Texas. I’ve worked with clients ranging from small startups to global B2C/B2B companies and on products including mobile apps, fintech/e-commerce websites, and software.