Hey there!
You’ve found my personal portfolio.
I’m looking to collaborate with software/product teams that can leverage my experience and challenge as many of my skills as possible.
Take a look, then let’s talk.
Introduction
Overview
Initial concept → deployment
I enjoy participating in every stage of a digital project—from defining the product to contributing code. Over a decade’s worth of creative direction and project mgmt experience allows me to take a leadership role as needed.
As a UX designer, I’ve helped shape the overall concept and objectives of a project, and then as a creative director/project manager I’ve guided an iterative process of design and development. In most cases I’ve also personally designed the visual and interactive experience and/or heavily collaborated in the code to bring it all to life.
- project manager
- ux designer
- creative director
- team lead
- operations and business development
- interaction designer
- front-end developer
Hats donned
- clarify the client objectives
- understand the user
- support the team
- communicate constantly and consistently
- follow an intentional process
- improve the process
Notes to live by
Selected recent clients and partners
UX Design
Let's start with UX
Maybe where user experience ends and where other things like user interface design start is up for discussion. Ultimately, I don’t think being precise here matters much. I do feel strongly that the values and principles that drive user experience design need to be supported in every step of the design/development process.
I use my role in any project to make sure the business objectives are considered in the context of the user’s needs. Then I advocate for these considerations to be present at every step. Outside of that, I believe in being flexible and clarifying priorities: every project needs a tailored blend of UX practices, design love and technical know-how.
- product definition
- user research
- user testing
- information architecture
Practices practiced
- UX audits
- product strategy briefs
- user personas
- content plans
- wireflows
Deliverables delivered
Interaction Design
Designing for humans
Translating UX objectives and priorities into effective and impactful interactive experiences is very satisfying for me. Drawing on my experience as a designer, I enjoy creating tools and solutions in the form of digital interfaces.
This part of the process tends to become the focal point of so much rich collaboration between designers, developers and the client—and I love being in the middle of it.
- wireframing
- user interaction analysis
- visual design
- animation and interaction
- prototyping
Practices practiced
- wireframes and flows
- high fidelity mockups
- coded components
- clickable prototypes
Deliverables delivered
Front end development
Focus on the front-end
I love being on a team. In some cases, I'll take on the role of the front-end developer if design and UX has already been handled. When creating or updating the HTML, CSS and JS of new or existing projects, I try to bake in accessibility and performance while bringing the interactive experience to life.
Often, these are opportunities to challenge my skills and learn a ton from the other designers and developers on the project.
- WordPress
- jekyll
- Craft CMS
- shopify
- react
Libraries leveraged
- translate provided designs into code
- site architecture
- performance & accessibility
- HTML, CSS, JS
- sometimes PHP, React, or other templating languages
