About

I am a UX designer...

I enjoy solving a problems and organizing all the variables. My ears perk up when people complain about their experiences. It's fun to engage in a bit of casual UX Research. In a nutshell, that's who I am analytical, friendly, and curious.

Recent

Smashing Magazine Workshop: Smart Interface Design Patterns, 2020 Edition

The Design Process I Follow

Create empathy
Define the problem(s)
Ideate with stakeholders
Prototype with low fidelity
Test with real users

Relevant Experiences

Facilitated working sessions for Information Architecture, Modular Material Design, Content Strategy, and User Feedback with 6-12 client stakeholders on multiple occasions
Earned a Nielsen Norman Certification on User Centered Design techniques and put them into practice creating a design system and dozens of user tested templates
Used story mapping techniques with a team of developers, stakeholders, and fellow designers to ideate and create stories for possible features and solutions
Incorporated the feedback from Analytics, A/B testing, and User Interviews to improve features and realize new opportunities
Designed modules and pages for features on over a dozen different large scale new and established properties with Illustrator and Sketch
Contributed to the code base and CSS of nearly every feature or project in the form of final styling or living style guide
Conducted competitor analysis, user interviews, and content analysis with new projects and redesigns
Produced real-time prototypes on conference calls with the full team as we consider the results of analytics, user research, or stakeholder preferences using Sketch or digital whiteboards
Evangelized best UX practices with articles and testing to justify design choices while incorporating feedback and criticism
Written user stories and interface specifications to support designs and organize the overall project effort
Used UX research to create features that added to the value proposition of the product