Nathan
Haynes-Magyar

Product Designer &
Full Stack Developer

  • Experienced frontend dev with 8 years building intuitive web applications, combining technical expertise with user-centered design. Proven track record shipping products from 0-to-1 and scaling platforms for 200K users.

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    Experience

    Self-Employed

    Product Designer & Full-Stack Developer

    2020 - Present

    • Built and launched Twirlmate competition management system using Vue.js and Django for 1,778+ users across 6 stakeholder types, generating $82K revenue through user-centered design

    • Designed and developed multi-step user journey (signup, registration, payment) with 88.6% completion rate - outperforming industry average cart abandonment rate by 150%+

    • Integrated Spektrix ticketing API into professional theatre website, building Vue.js event calendar and custom CSS for branded purchasing experience ($900K+ revenue/yr and 40K+ ticket sales/yr for 4 yrs)

    • Led mobile UX redesign in Figma, increasing usability from ‘below average’ to ‘excellent’ rating (SUS: 65→89), reducing friction by 3.5 minutes in critical registration funnel through evidence-based design

    • Prototyped and deployed conversational product design portfolio powered by separate Vue.js SPA and Django backend, using ElevenLabs voice clone and OpenAI LLM

    • Designed AI-powered authoring workflow with Claude Code, reducing content creation time by 75% (20min→5min), enabling Codespec to deliver personalized programming practice at scale

    • Designed and built an interactive coding platform with intelligent help features that reduced frustration without inhibiting learning, and scaffolded problem types that boosted learner confidence and engagement.

    Center for Academic Innovation

    Lead Software Developer

    2023 - Present

    • Implemented new design system using modular LESS stylesheets and reusable Django patterns for an online learning catalog featuring 300+ courses and serving 200K+ account holders

    • Defined and led 4-year modernization roadmap, migrating legacy Rails app frontend (Angular→Vue)

    • Defined 4-tier career path and competency benchmarks for software developer roles

    Senior Software Developer

    2021 - 2023

    • Built foundational Storybook component library with 2 designers and 2 developers, creating 9 core components that scaled across 74 application components

    • Enhanced accessibility of Plotly.js charts with dynamic human-readable descriptions

    • Reduced page load time of data-heavy page by 90% (2min→10s) with efficient ActiveRecord queries

    • Co-developed Arbiter QA visualization tool to improve QA pipeline observability across 10 software projects using PostgreSQL database, Django, Vue.js, Trello API, Celery and Redis

    Senior UX Designer

    2019 - 2021

    • Standardized usability testing processes to establish user research-informed design culture

    • Built Django/Vue polling feature enabling rapid user feedback collection with custom frontend components

    • Facilitated design thinking workshop (3 designers, 3 learning experience designers, 2 developers) to design goal-setting tool now used by 30K+ learners/year to increase course completion rates

    • Created and led professional development workshops on typography, color, accessibility, etc

    UX Designer

    2017 - 2019

    • Designed and owned the frontend for online course catalog, scaling to 300+ courses and 200K users

    • Wireframed and prototyped course discovery, scaling from 6,500 to 53,600+ enrollments/year

    Education

    • UX/UI for AI Products (7-week course)
      Stanford University - 2025

    • Master of Science in Information: Human-Computer Interaction (4.0)
      University of Michigan School of Information - 2018

    • Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Studies and Spanish (3.9)
      University of Michigan College of Literature, Science & Arts - 2013

    • Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance Acting (3.9)
      University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance - 2013