Product design
Well-built products are ones that focus on the business and user
needs and should be measured by what they enable. By conducting user
research, usability testing, and discovery interviews we can
identify and understand problems to then iterate over solutions.
This allows us to validate our assumptions with users or allow us to
observe unexpected behavior to pivot our approach. I like to work
closely with stakeholders, product management, design, and
engineering teams to create the best experience possible.
Design systems
Products that scale well are ones that can iterate and innovate
unencumbered by a bespoke design process. That’s not to say bespoke
design doesn’t have its place in tasks like branding, but design
systems enable consistency when producing or maintaining a product.
Everything from creating branding standards to design patterns to
typography, I thoroughly enjoy building visual guidelines for
digital products that increase efficiency and scalability.
Front-end development
Designing and developing high-fidelity prototypes using HTML, CSS,
and JavaScript allow me to present functional prototypes and ship
production-level code. Being a multidisciplinary allows me make
better design decisions, explore the cost of ideas quickly, and work
more effectively with developers. I like to serve as the bridge
between business & design needs and development feasibility. I
have experience building front-end architecture that use frameworks
like Sass, jQuery, and React.js, but I also have some PHP experience
working with open-source content management systems like Drupal and
Wordpress.