I'm a clarity
engine for
messy workflows.

MY PHILOSOPHY

Before I open Figma, I practice mise en place.

It's a baking principle I learned from my mom: everything prepped, measured, and staged before the mixing begins. I bring the same discipline to product design — research and alignment before a single pixel. I take my hobbies seriously, which is really just another way of saying I care about craft in everything I do.

I'm a senior product designer at Relativity, where I've spent 6+ years untangling enterprise workflows across the Enrichment domain for 40+ countries. I lead design for Processing, Publish, Message Conversion, and Queue Management — the infrastructure layer where confusion costs real money and real time. My partners will tell you I always explain the why behind design decisions, because shared understanding ships faster than assumptions.

My foundation is in illustration, photography, and visual design. I came to product design through graphic design and still practice both: I design custom stickers and merchandise for Relativity's annual conference, shoot and style food photography, and keep a creative practice that feeds how I see and compose everything else.

IN PRACTICE

How I work

How I Work — nickmanoogian.com

Get people in the room

I'd rather facilitate a messy whiteboard session than present a polished deck no one was part of. Workshops are how I build alignment, not just gather input.

Research that earns the decision

I don't do research to fill a slide. I do it to answer the question the team is stuck on, then make the reasoning visible so we don't relitigate it later.

Same eye, different medium

How I frame a photograph is how I frame a layout — same eye, same intention. My creative practice and my product work run on the same rigor.

MY EXPERIENCE

Experience
Senior Product Designer
2023–Present
Relativity
  • Domain lead across six product areas handling 8+ PB/year for 40+ countries
  • Shipped a zero-incident data migration underpinning $3–5M/year in infrastructure savings
  • Built short message conversion from scratch — now processing 5+ TB across Slack, Teams, Cellebrite, and Google Chat
  • Designed and facilitated workshops with 280+ participants across Sydney, Chicago, London, and Nashville
  • Mentor designers across the pod; created a UX mentorship program adopted company-wide
Product Designer
2021–2023
Relativity
  • Owned UX for the Processing vertical across multiple releases
  • Shipped the Jobs Page redesign — reduced data import from 49 clicks to 21
  • Built the discovery template adopted cross-team for framing problems and running research
  • Led discovery for dtSearch that resulted in a strategic kill decision — proving research that stops a bad bet is as valuable as validating a good one
  • Ran the Knowledge Share series that expanded from UX to the full company
Associate Product Designer
2019–2021
Relativity
  • Joined as the sole designer for Processing, establishing the design practice for what became the Enrichment domain
  • Contributed to Aero, Relativity's design system — components, patterns, and accessibility standards
  • Built end-to-end conference prototypes across three countries, including the London keynote covering the Aero launch
Senior Visual Designer
2017–2019
SMS Assist
  • Designed the company website, interactive tradeshow experiences, and a customer onboarding booklet
  • Transitioned into product design — created a documentation design system and collaborated with PMs on a B2B app feature
  • The pivot from marketing deliverables to product thinking that led to Relativity
UX Design Fellow
2016
Ascensia Diabetes Care
  • Semester-long fellowship — my first product design experience
  • Designed Flâner, a mobile app connecting diabetes and HIV monitoring into one product
  • Full-cycle: user interviews, personas, journey maps, information architecture, prototype testing, and visual identity