Welcome! I
Lead
Analyze
Prototype
Code
Applications & Products.
I'm a dynamic UX/UI Designer with over 15 years of experience optimizing user interfaces and elevating user experiences. Adept at creating modern, responsive designs, demonstrated through successful projects like Cigna’s $1,000,000 enterprise application redesign. Expertise in establishing UI design systems and leading usability testing using Hotjar. Committed to delivering impacting solutions that address user needs and enhance product engagement, ready to bring innovative design to future projects.
I lead the way using my four principles to UX and UI design. Analyze the project, prototype the improvements, code or pair with developers to code the new work and help QA test workflows.
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Analyze
Analyze pre-existing application/product to bring it up to todays standards. Research the user types of the application/product. -
Prototype
After the wireframes have been created, design a working prototype to show business how the new changes will interact with the users. -
Code
Bring the new wireframes to life by coding the HTML/CSS or pair with a Dev to help them code the wireframes. -
Testing
Work with QA Testers to help test the stories and their workflows.
Accomplishments
Here are some of the accomplishments I achieved on some of my past contracts.
- Successfully spearheaded the redesign of a $1,000,000 drug SAAS enterprise application and completing the project in just 7 months.
- Facilitated workshops for developers to learn and apply semantic HTML/CSS and SCSS best practices.
- Eventually assigned to support two projects and had contract extended another year.
- Orchestrated cross-departmental collaboration to provide animated prototypes, improving usability and crafting visually appealing UI layouts.
- Collaborated to incorporate additional features, resulting in significant acclaim from stakeholders during progress meetings, leading to inquiries about further financial support.
- Facilitated workshops for developers to learn and apply semantic HTML/CSS and SCSS best practices.
- Led user experience from conception to delivery, yielding measurable results.
- Orchestrated cross-departmental collaboration to provide animated prototypes, improving usability and crafting visually appealing UI layouts.
- Orchestrated cross-departmental collaboration to provide animated prototypes, improving usability and crafting visually appealing UI layouts.
- Facilitated workshops for developers to learn and apply semantic HTML/CSS and SCSS best practices. Also led WCAG compliance workshops for various teams.
- Led user experience from conception to delivery, yielding measurable results.
- Mentored various departments and offshore teams to enhance usability and UI layouts.
- Initially contracted for 6 months to alleviate Follett’s extensive workload: demonstrated significant impact that resulted in a full-time position.
- Orchestrated cross-departmental collaboration to provide animated prototypes, improving usability and crafting visually appealing UI layouts.
- Facilitated workshops for developers to learn and apply semantic HTML/CSS and SCSS best practices.
- Led user experience from conception to delivery, yielding measurable results.
About
Projects
Through extensive contract work, I’ve partnered with organizations across a wide range of industries, gaining exposure to diverse workflows and methodologies. I’ve incorporated the most effective practices into my own day-to-day design process.
As my experience grew, so did my responsibilities. For the past eight years, I’ve consistently been brought on as a Lead or Senior UI/UX Designer to help teams modernize and overhaul complex web applications. In several roles, I’ve also led HTML and CSS workshops to support and upskill development teams.
Learn MoreWeb Design
Creating unique professional websites have been a passion of mine. I enjoy sitting down with people and showing them how I can incorporate their ideas, along with mine, into a unique professional website that reflects their business. There's nothing more fulfilling than watching a web design come to life and then watch the people's faces light up as I present the website.
I'm well versed in the use of front-end frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation and Material Design. I use semantic HTML when I code and use SCSS in my creation of CSS. I also add WCAG/ADA Compliance when coding my HTML.
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Graphic Design
I've always enjoyed designing graphics. I started my graphic design career in 1997 as a marketing assistant manipulating clipart images for brochures and I then moved on to creating unique designs for banners, logos, brochures fliers, webpages and flash animation.
I started out using Photoshop and Illustrator 4.0 and have been using them to the current version. Due to Illustrator being a line art program, I would use it for creating logo's and svg files. I'm always combing the internet for better techniques to keep up with the latest trends.
Learn MoreUser Experience
I have over 15 years of experience as UI/UX Designer and for the last 10 years, I've been working as a Lead or Senior Designer. The best reason about working many projects is that you are exposed to many different styles and process's that other designers use. The ones I found to better serve me, I adopted to better serve the next project. Another great reason is you are exposed to work with many different applications and many different platforms.
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