gina cairney
CONTENT DESIGNER
STRATEGIST
WRITER
Project Spotlight
About
My name is Gina and I’m a UX professional. After a decade of working in the nonprofit education sector as a marketing-communications specialist, I switched careers to UX. I currently work at a SaaS company that serves the events and hospitality industries. When I’m not working, you can find me either engrossed in a book, writing a story, walking around the city, or riding my bike Rocinante (from Don Quixote but The Expanse works, too).
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Pubs and Talks
Using IA to improve enterprise software navigation (poster presentation), IAC26, Apr. 2026
Can UXplain it with Rodney & Gina (co-host), Cvent, internal podcast, Since July 2025
How a Content Designer Collaborates in Figma, Bootcamp (syndicated), Dec. 2024
How a Content Designer Collaborates With a Product Designer, Bootcamp (syndicated), Sep. 2023
Object-Oriented UX: Discussion With Content Strategists Leveraging OOUX, Content Strategy Seattle, Sep. 2022
Talks for Cvent (internal events)
Expanding Reach: Developing Self-service Tools to Better Support Teams, Mar. 2026
Cohesive Prompt Engineering for Non-engineers, Jul. 2025
The Content Design Style Guide, Mar. 2025
Workshop: Content-first Design, Dec. 2024
Intro to UX Content Design, Mar. 2024
Experience
Cvent, UX, since 2021
nXu Education, Marketing, 2020-2022
Uncommon Schools, Marketing and communications, 2018-2021
Education Week, Online news production, 2012-2016
Education and Certifications
M.A., Sociology, New School for Social Research
B.A., Journalism, University of Maryland - College Park
Conversation Design for Chatbots, UX Content Collective
OOUX Strategist, OOUX Academy
UX Design Foundations, Parsons
Front End Web Development, Udacity