Summary
Jaclyn Perrone is a freelance product designer based in the New York City area with 11 years of experience turning complex ideas into intuitive web and mobile experiences. Her background spans front-end development, product leadership, and hands-on design work at companies like Quora and thoughtbot, where she combined user research, prototyping, and implementation to ship validated products. She excels at guiding cross-functional teams through discovery to high-fidelity outcomes and has led hiring, mentorship, and design process improvements. A left-and-right-brained maker, Jaclyn pairs a lifelong love of art and music with rigorous problem-solving—so she often codes prototypes herself to quickly test hypotheses. Her work is informed by deep empathy for users and a practical focus on business-aligned design decisions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA Communications Visual Arts, BA Communications Visual Arts at Fordham University