My life in design

I’m a Staff Product Design Strategist with 9+ years of experience, currently shaping design experiences for Thrivent's Digital Advisor Portfolio.

I believe design is a toolbox— not a tool. Throughout the last 10 years, I've actively worked towards growing my toolbox beyond general UX foundations, frameworks, and best practices. Every role, mentor, podcast, book, webinar, and conference unlocked new compartments within my toolbox — expanding it to more of a "toolshed" you could say, with cabinets, drawers, and shelves dedicated to a variety of strategic frameworks, workshops, research tactics, business acumen, economic factors, and creative solutions.

My decade of experience stretches across various tech sectors and meaningful projects, including data protection and legal compliance at Lever, account security at Twilio, machine learning tools at Amplitude, digital mortgage shopping at Credible, and equitable car-repair assessments at RepairPal.

I'm passionate about inclusive design, sustainable UX, and advocating for neurodivergence in design and storytelling.

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Contributions and Impact

I contribute design thoughts, learnings, and perspectives on UX Collective, UX Bootcamp, Medium, and have been featured in other publications such as ADPList's newsletter, engaging hundreds of thousands of designers. I recently published "The Product Designer's Interview Playbook", which reached over 600k designers globally. I actively mentor on ADPList and volunteer with LGBTQ+ youth through OutInTech's University program in the Fall and/or Spring semesters.

Prior to Thrivent, I led Apollo GraphQL's PLG & onboarding, leading to a 55% increase in engagement, a 44% increase in user graph creation, and a demo experience accounting for 30% of new onboards. I've led business critical projects that have significantly reduced churn amongst key customer segments, retaining millions in customer retention revenue. At Lever, I led the creation of custom roles (RBAC) worth $2.4mil in ACV, yielding a 57% customer retention rate, and generating $1.2Mil+ in revenue retention within 3 quarters of release. 🥳

Quick links

Grab The Product Designer's Interview Playbook; a free resource described as "the GPS that helps you find the quickest and most efficient route to securing your dream job or promotion".
Join the Winter '25 Cohort for my class: The Empowered Designer: Design Your Impact.
Checkout my feature on ADPList; shared with 215k+ designers
Watch my talk from UXDX's "Thriving Through Change", about neurodiversity in tech.
Implement the GRIT framework; a structured approach designed to empower neurodivergent designers and their teams.
Read my contributions on UX Collective & Medium
Schedule 30 minutes with me on ADPList; view my 5-star ratings & reviews from mentees.
View my case studies
Read through my resume

I believe in giving back to our design community.

Community is cool

2k+

Minutes spent with mentees in the last 45 days.

Top 1% of Mentors on ADPList

Providing over 1,100 minutes of mentorship to individuals across 10 different countries in >14 days.

Design Contributions

600k+

Designers worldwide have downloaded my free PDF resource.

What stakeholders are saying

Taylor Jones

Sr Software Engineer @ ApolloGraphQL

"I love working with Meghan because she is not only thoughtful about her designs but drives them using data and best practices. She is one of the best storytellers I have had the pleasure of working with and works extremely hard to understand the users what their personas need in a way that makes a positive impact not only for our users but for our company. She also is super easy to work with and makes sure I have all of the information and assets I need as a developer to implement her designs."

Deep Jani

Senior Product Manager

"I worked with Meghan during her time at Lever. Meghan and I were overseeing highly impactful product areas such as data compliance & privacy and User Access & Permissions. I have become a huge advocate for her as she displayed the ability to understand, extract, and synthesize customers’ needs through continuous discovery & research. Not only that but her raw horsepower coupled with strong user empathy bolstered our ability to develop scalable solutions that addressed the most complex user needs while keeping business objectives in sight."

Steven Cohn

Founder, CEO of Winware.ai | Prev Founder of Validately

"Meghan was an integral part of designing our MVP. She is great at capturing user needs and turning them into elegant designs. She works well with both developers and the business team. I loved partnering with Meghan."

Vitaly Friedman

Founder of SmashingMag

“Meghan wrote a practical little guide to guide designers through each interview phase, with helpful tips and strategies on things to keep in mind, talking points, questions to ask, red flags to watch out for and how to tell a compelling story about yourself and your work. Kindly put together by Meghan Logan. 👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾"

Mitchell Clements

Sr. Product Design Manager ✨

"Read Meghan Logan's new product design interview playbook.It's short, straight to the point, and helps you navigate what recruiters and hiring managers are looking for. And it's FREE. As a hiring manager, I couldn't agree more with the advice in there."

Wendy Y Chang

Product Designer II @ Amazon

“Meghan put out an amazing piece of work with her playbook, I love how the writings are warm, supportive but not condescending to junior, mid, senior level or just about anyone who is still figuring things out in this tough market. Thank you Meghan and all the other co-authors!"

Josh Skinner

Sr Product Designer, Loop

"Meghan was genuinely such a pleasure to work with. From the day she started, she displayed a strong willingness to learn and explore new concepts and ideas. Meghan is also a versatile designer; she is quick to adapt to new problem spaces and environments all while providing a thoughtful and elevated solution in the end. She also spearheaded several critical initiatives at Lever, laying the groundwork for a successful design team. I look forward to having the privilege to work with Meghan again in the future."

Mel Allums

Design Leader | Ex Google, Ex PayPal

"From Day 0 she demonstrated that she was a valuable asset to the team and to our customers. Meghan asks tough questions. She brings her broad design experience and sparks ideas for internal processes. As a Design leader, I have to trust that each person on my team will be a strong user advocate, and Meghan fights for the user every time. Would definitely work with Meghan again!"

Sophie Edelman

Sr Tech Recruiter, Ford | Prev. Unity

"I hired Meghan to help design my website. Meghan knocked it out of the park! I was so impressed with how she improved my website designs. She took a standard template I had put together and within a week the entire site had been overhauled and it was such an improvement. I'm very pleased with the work she produced and it was a joy working with her. I recommend!"

Danielle Man

Sr. Director of Engineering, ApolloGraphQL

"Meghan has an impressive ability to tackle complex systems design problems. She's a good storyteller, she runs her own research, she's constantly teaching herself new things and keeping up with industry trends. More than other folks, I think she approaches her role with fearlessness and the energy she brings can be the rising tide to lift boats around her. At Apollo, I have seen her build productive x-functional relationships and take initiative to own full business problems and champion design thinking time and time again. I think her ceiling is extremely high."

Kaushik Sahoo

Engineering Manager, ApolloGraphQL

"Meghan and I have worked on a variety of projects at Apollo, and her number one skill as a design partner is her ability to critically think through any problem a business is facing/might face. She is driven by data and analytical insights, and when this is mixed with her ability to create beautiful user interfaces, it creates for a stellar combo. You can always trust Meghan to work with all stakeholders to ensure there is proper buy-in across the organization. I greatly appreciate her natural inclination towards product-led growth and desire to consistently start from the perspective of truly understanding what customers want first and foremost."

Dawn Delatte

Dir. of Design Strategy at Thoughtbot Inc.

"Came across Meghan’s Design Interview playbook on Linkedin. It’s a really great resource! Thanks for sharing :). It's a great resource for our design team, especially as they work with other client organizations that have different needs than our own.”

Leadership impact

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Live Course

Attend the Design Leadership Summit in Toronto 2025!

Let's hang out and talk design IRL! I'll be discussing ADHD in design and the G.R.I.T. framework; a structured approach designed to empower neurodivergent designers.