1. MARISSA DULANEY – DESIGN MANAGER
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Summary of My Professional Experience
Adobe Systems - WWW.ADOBE.COM
Design Manager, 2001 - Present
During my 8 year tenure at Adobe, I led the design of the highest revenue-generating products for each of
Adobe’s customers: the consumer, creative professional, and business user. I played a variety of roles
including senior-level individual contributor, conceptual designer, project lead, and manager. In addition, I
drove the innovation of numerous seed projects, mentored fellow designers, and developed and implemented
design processes for Adobe's product development. Below are highlights of my experience.
Key Products I’ve Shipped
Professional Products Business Products Consumer Products
Creative Suite 1 & 4 Acrobat 9 Photoshop Elements 3, 4, & 5
Photoshop 7 Acrobat.com Premiere Elements 2 & 3
Innovated Concepts I’ve Designed
Invented and collaborated on many forward thinking concepts to solve users’ needs including:
• PDF Portfolios: In the wake of PDF creation being offered for free from Microsoft and Apple, this visual
and easily customizable representation of multi-file sets drives the Acrobat and PDF business beyond
basic PDF creation (Shipped with Acrobat 9.0)
• Workspaces: To fill a major hole in a product’s offering in preparation for requiring paid subscriptions,
this web and Adobe AIR application assists business users in collaborating with teams by solving pain
points and supporting existing workflows.
• Acrobat.com Mobile: This conceptual design and prioritization of features ensures users’s needs are
met on the mobile device instead of pursuing the less effective approach of just “shrinking” the
product’s basic functionality onto a mobile device.
• Genie: Inspired by the review process of professional photographers, this unique digital photo editing
interaction allows users to roughly markup a photo for automatic and specified local enhancements
(parts of this became the Magic Selection Brush in Photoshop Elements 3.0)
• Bordeaux: Knowing that Creative Suite users often have expertise in only one product, this new
application for the Creative Suite leverages a user’s video, audio, or interactivity expertise in creating
projects that require all three. (Became Flash Catalyst)
• Acrobat Concierge: With research showing users are not aware of Acrobat’s large feature set, this new
UI brings Acrobat’s capabilities to the user when they need them most, even when not in Acrobat itself.
• Photo and Video Creations: After discovering a new classification of users, this full feature set and
experience for hobbyists allows them to express themselves and share stories using photos and videos
without having to learn complex editing tools. (Shipped in Photoshop Elements 5.0 and Premiere
Elements 2.0)
• Sceneline: To address the struggles users have with timelines, but the limits on creativity inherent in
storyboards, this novel combination of a storyboard and a timeline simplifies video editing (shipped in
Premiere Elements 2.0)
• Large Rich Media Collections: Working with the Advanced Technology Lab’s researchers, this
technological proof of concept facilitates the navigation of vast photo and media collections
• Ion: After discovering that Creative Suite users find web searches for assistance overwhelming, this
web community aggregates, ranks, and allows discussions on the large amount of non-Adobe “help”
content on the web (first feature set shipped with Creative Suite 4.0)
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2. My Key Accomplishments
• Led teams of interaction designers, visual designers, and user researchers from concept through ship
for individual and entire suites of products
• Designed a range of products including shrink-wrapped software, web applications, suites, e-commerce
workflows, and micro-site web pages
• Appropriately prioritized designs and my team’s tasks given product constraints by making the best
tradeoff decisions to release a quality product
• Regularly partnered with key stakeholders including executive staff to understand the business goals of
the product and to develop a strategy for improving the user experience to achieve those goals
• Consistently identified and executed on the best communication method for the situation: from quick
and dirty mockups to rock-solid and thoroughly detailed specifications
• Maintained an open-minded design approach, seeking out customer feedback and market research, and
remaining flexible to new ideas and data that required design changes
• Created cohesive and extensible design patterns, style guides, and workflow specifications for multiple
products and company initiatives
• Built bridges between different business units and product teams to increase design and development
efficiency
• Exercised a leadership style that enables me to collaborate with and inspire designers while respecting
their unique personalities, knowing that the best solutions come from joint efforts
• Presented at internal conferences and successfully pitched and articulated the thought process behind
design concepts to executive staff and councils
• Successfully guided remote designers’ work, collaborated with product managers and engineering
teams both in the US and abroad, and managed external design firms.
My Education & Technical Training:
• M.S. and B.S. Human Computer Interaction (HCI) / Computer Science
Stanford University; graduated with honors – HCI.STANFORD.EDU
• Women Unlimited Management Program – WOMEN-UNLIMITED.COM
• Published five papers in the HCI field (publication information available upon request)
• Well-versed with industry standard design tools to create mockups, prototypes, and specifications
Additional Information & Organizations:
• Linkedin: LINKEDIN.COM/IN/MARISSADULANEY
• Chi Omega National Fraternity
• Tau Beta Pi and Stanford Cap & Gown Honors Societies
• Stanford Professional Women (SPW)
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