I'm Trent Nguyen, Director of UX Design & Research. For more than 20 years I've helped Fortune 500 brands turn complex digital experiences into clear, measurable, and genuinely useful products.
NissanUSA.com is a critical digital touchpoint for car buyers exploring models, scheduling test drives, and comparing ownership options. Its fragmented architecture and outdated design system had created real barriers to engagement and conversion.
I led UX research, strategy, and information architecture for the site's full redesign, replacing assumption-based design with user insight, with a strong focus on mobile engagement and shopper decision-making.
40% increase in homepage engagement, significantly higher Build & Price and Dealer Locator completions, reduced drop-offs across key funnels, and strengthened trust metrics in user surveys.
Recent engagements across healthcare, energy, automotive, and logistics.
A tracked workflow tool that replaced email-and-spreadsheet claim dispute tracking, recovering more in reimbursements than it cost to build.
A unified abstraction platform balancing automation with human oversight, replacing fragmented tools across thousands of clinical data submissions.
A connected system of four dashboards, coach manager, agency, corporate, and member, built on one shared wellness scoring model.
A 347-person bilingual survey surfacing five high-confidence CX findings and a prioritized improvement roadmap for Washington State's Department of Labor & Industries.
A 15-month UX-led redesign and platform migration moving Southwest Gas from a legacy CMS to Oracle WebCenter Sites.
WCAG 2.1 AA compliance and inclusive design for a utility platform serving 2M+ customers, across web and a third-party MyAccount portal.
A 13-month research-led redesign of Nissan's flagship platform, used by millions of shoppers monthly across desktop and mobile.
A vehicle visualizer for tradespeople, fleet managers, and upfitters, grounded in dealership field studies and behavioral data.
Three distinct guest personas, a VIP gaming guest, a milestone couple, and a convention attendee, each mapped end to end across their stay.
An organizational evaluation that reframed UX as a strategic business partner, resulting in formal ResearchOps and KPI alignment.
Moderated testing of the hands-free wearable scanner revealed a trust deficit that largely negates the device's core efficiency promise.
Moderated testing found that the Zebra's industrial design creates sustained friction in a delivery context, from gloved touch failures to menu structures built for a different workflow.
Rode along with a driver on a live delivery route to evaluate the handheld device UPS drivers use all day. Field observations paired with a full heuristic evaluation.
The specific disciplines I bring to every engagement, applied where they move the needle, not as a checklist.
End-to-end UX leadership, from foundational research and strategy through design execution and team enablement.
Understand your users before a single pixel is designed.
Test early, test often. Eliminate guesswork.
Rapid expert review to identify and prioritize what's actually broken.
End-to-end UX strategy, planning, and team enablement.
Bring data and user stories together.
Translate insights into clear, usable, accessible design.
Enterprise engagements spanning automotive, healthcare, retail, travel, and technology.
UX Design and Research Leader with 20+ years working with Fortune 500 clients across automotive, healthcare, energy, and retail.
I focus on the gap between what analytics show and what users actually do, and on fixing it in ways organizations can sustain. That's meant leading everything from full site redesigns and accessibility overhauls to research practice builds and UX maturity assessments.
I also mentor designers and researchers, and treat inclusive design as part of the definition of done, not an audit at the end.
Whether you're rethinking a flagship product, scaling a research practice, or trying to make sense of complex user behavior, I'd love to talk.