Marina Ruiz Available · Los Angeles

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I find the revenue leak, redesign the flow, and measure what happened.

Eight years in product design. The last four in ecommerce, for DTC brands.

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Three items, every figure labelled
No. 1 Weedmaps · Marketplace

Onboarding 100K new users a month, 20% better

Five Weedmaps onboarding screens in sequence: interest selection, dispensary-type preference, a curated list of recommended dispensaries, a brand carousel, and location permission.
Scroll to see the full five-screen flow →The full flow, one path: first question to recommended dispensary.

Before

An unguided signup: no path to first value, drop-off early in the funnel.

After

A guided onboarding funnel and one consolidated brand page. Shipped, instrumented, held.


Conversion+20%
Bounce-15%
Revenue attributed$2M+
Shipped behind A/B tests Read the case study →
No. 2 Kejsar · Shopify

Auditing a growing brand for the money it was leaving on the floor

$320K

Returns, annual · 24% of gross

A store-wide return rate of 10.8% hid ten products returning at 30 to 54%, against a fine jewelry benchmark of 8 to 15%.


Before

A business growing on every channel, with no way to see which parts of it were quietly inefficient.

After

Six changes ranked by effort against return, each sized as a labelled range rather than one confident number.


Returns, annual$320K
Returns, top ten30-54%
Industry benchmark8-15%
Uplift sized, not measured21-43%
Delivered, Q3 build scheduled Read the audit →
No. 3 Init · Self-directed concept, 2021

An end-to-end iOS app for meeting people nearby

A composite of Init app screens: an event detail page, a discover-people feed with nearby matches, an interest picker organized by category, and an age-range filter.
Scroll to see all four screens →Discover people and events by interest, video chat built in.

No delta to report. Kept for craft, not results.

Research through hi-fi prototype, run solo View the process →

Also on the shelf

The lab, four entries
Design systemA 73-component design system built for client work. Read the writeup →Systems
Demo pipelineScrapes a prospect's site and generates a demo redesign.No writeup yet
DeMejicoAn SEO automation project. Read the writeup →Automation HouseAmericaDesign system and landing page architecture. Read the writeup →In progress