Summary
Christine Ricks is a Staff Experience Designer at Adobe Express with 12 years of practice designing product experiences, marketing materials, and front-end implementations across startups and large teams. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she progressed through multiple senior design roles at Adobe, shaping help & support and product experiences while retaining a strong hands-on craft in illustration and front-end code. Her background as a freelancer and early startup designer means she routinely bridges visual systems, interaction design, and implementation, often shipping complete design-to-code solutions. Christine founded a startup and has led design as a sole practitioner during hypergrowth phases, demonstrating an ability to scale processes and outputs with small teams. Her portfolio and passion project (thepluskit.com) reveal an ongoing focus on reusable design assets and practical tooling for creators. Collected training in fine art and graphic design from MICA underpins a visual-first approach balanced with practical web development skills.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Fine Arts, Painting & Graphic Design, Bachelors of Fine Arts, Painting & Graphic Design at The Maryland Institute College of Art