Melissa Yakinian, UX Designer and Leader

Hi 👋 I’m Melissa

I turn complex products into experiences people can trust.

Director of UX at Xpanse, where I’m designing a unified lending platform and exploring how AI can simplify complex workflows. I’ve also worked on projects for loanDepot, Axon, and Zillow. Fifteen years of making complicated things feel manageable.

Read the Axon case study

How I think

  • 01Focus

    Fall in love with the problem, not the solution.

  • 02Flow

    The happy path should also be the easy path.

  • 03Form

    Form and function work together.

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Melissa Yakinian

Designing clarity into complex systems.

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