Tribevest

Head of Design

Responsbility

Tools

Figma. Slack. Google. Email.

2021 - 2022 More info coming soon.

SiriusXM Sports

Role / Responsbility

Tools

Adobe XD, Sketch, Invision, Jira

2020 - 2021

Wandergier

Role / Responsbility

Tools

Adobe XD, Invision, Trello

Story

The client found me through Instagram and said they were very impressed with my work and wanted me to take their website designs to the next level for mobile.

Initially, I worked within a tight budget and utilized familiar UI affordances, common mental models and created an action-driven experience allowing the user to have more control. I was able to experiment and gain valuable user feedback quickly through guerrilla testing.

For the first round of delivery I provided over 120 screens including every detail from all scenarios. The client asked me to become a partner and now I find myself as a board member overseeing the app development & design, user testing, feature updates, product roadmap, and more.

Impact

Wandergier just recently launched in October 2020! On both iOS and Android, Wandergier provides travelers a safe way to explore, meet new friends, share memorable experiences, and more.

2019 - Present

Knowledge to Practice • CurrentMD

Role / Responsbility

Tools

Adobe XD, Invision Freehand, Jira

Story

Knowledge to Practice and their product, Current MD (above) is a game-changing software in the medical industry helping Physicians and Doctors stay up to date with their continuing medical education credits.

Goal

This was first Toptal engagement. I kicked it off as I would with any project and that's with an immediate deep dive to better understand the user problems, the business goals, and the software. I do this mainly by asking questions and taking lots of notes. I worked with stakeholers to review prior user feedback, gain insights, and discuss business goals set to achieve.

Impact

I worked directly with the Director of Product and VP of Engineering and was responsible for helping improve the overall user experience across web and mobile by way of ideation, user testing, and delievery of solutions and specs to development. Team members leaned on me for my UX and interaction design experience and knowledge.

By the end of my contract we were able to provide K2P's users a more focused product experience by creating, testing, and implementing highly requested features and updates. We wanted Doctor's to be able to continue their education "on the go" and not get in the way of their busy schedules. They're now able to view and manage their progress through a new, data-focused dashboard, and complete their courses through a redesigned wizard (mockups coming soon).

2019-2020

Aries Living

Role / Responsbility

Tools

Adobe XD

Goal

Under a tight timeframe, I set out to redesign this website experience from the ground up and created a simple, yet familiar user interface. I wanted to create an experience that helped users explore and book rentals quicker and much easier – which in turn made the client happier.

Impact

I set out to help the client redesign their website and deliver a simple user experience utilizing familiar patterns and affordances found in the wild. I was able to do so. Since then, the website has kept the aesthetic I created and pivoted their business model, and in doing so have changed quite a bit of their website design with it.

2019 - 2020

S1 (Unofficial Title)

Tools

Adobe XD, Invision, Miro (Real Time Board), Lucid Chart, Jira

Story

S1 (unofficial title) is a custom, state of the art and brand new web platform to replace outdated processes for government, small businesses, and academia alike to create, maintain, and build innovative technologies. Those technologies developed in the past using this process include Velcro, aerial drones, and even Lasik eye surgery.

Challenge

This large platform brings together 4 different applications in one place for program managers to manage all team's processes for topic development, proposal selection and awarding funds.

Goal

The goal was to create an intuitive experience with a friendly visual language, utilize a single sign-on application that would tailor itself to your access permissions. We wanted to create a familiar, guiding experience to increase engagement and retention while decreasing thousands of hours wasted on those tedious, outdated processes.

2017 - 2019

Align Mobile App

Tools

Adobe XD, Invision, Jira, HTML5, CSS3, Kendo-UI

About

Align is a cloud based business operating system designed to keep businesses and business leaders on the path to executing their plans.

Goal

For my final project at Radolo I was tasked to provide solid redesign of Align mobile with solutions to their many problems. Gut the fat. Simplify navigation. Create a better experience overall while bringing visual design to top priority.

Process

I worked with the client to create a more engaging way to achieve goals, manage tasks and team, share insights, and provide real-time data. The prior app was outdated in look and feel, and functionality.

Through user feedback I found opportunities to create a more focused approach and easing recurring frustrations.

Challenges

30 days to complete. No budget for user testing. New software Adobe XD.

2016

Aptify Association Management Software

Tools

Adobe Illustrator, Invision, Jira, HTML5, CSS3, Kendo-UI

Story

Aptify's Association Membership Manager was a brand new software platform that was meant to adapt to the customers' needs as their association grows over time. This new software was intended to empower users and make managing their data, members, and campaigns easier.

I managed and led product design and user experience initiatives across the product lifetime. With little-to-no research budget and using best practices, I worked closely with the project manager to balance business goals and make decisions to create a good user experience.

2015 - 2017

Design System + UI Library

Tools

Adobe XD, stackblitz, github

Story

One of my intitial projects starting at ByteCubed was designing a intuitive library of UI assets that will propel our design process. Working with the small yet eager and passionate UX team, I was able to flesh out a living and, more importantly, adaptable kit that is inspired by Google's Material Design specs.

Goal

Create an comprehensive design system and pattern library to use for the current software project and future updates.

2017

GEICO Mobile App Face ID

Tools

Adobe XD

Story

Working with new, cutting-edge technology like biometrics and facial recognition in the new iPhone X, I explored micro-interactions for logging in to GEICO's mobile app.

2017

Face the Force Today

Tools

Adobe Illustrator, HTML 5, CSS3, Javascript, PHP

Story

In honor of May the 4th (be with you), Jay Casteel and I sat down at a coffee shop one night after a few brainstorming sessions to design and build out our free service tool for designers and developers to use Star Wars character faces for their prototpyes and designs.

Challenge

Figuring out how to not recreate the same photo on the server every time one image is used. We wrote a bit of js and php to make that magic happen in the back end; once an image is created (whatever size) it would not be duplicated - only reused.

2016 - Present

Aptify Mobile App

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Story

Designed with mobile in mind, I worked directly with Aptify's Product and Enginnering team to create a app powered by Salesforce.

Impact

We designed and built a place for Association's to quickly and easily make calls, email and make notes, capture, create and edit your member records in real-time. We strived to allow users to better focus on the data they need most when they want it.

2016

Aptify E-Business

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Story

I worked directly with Aptify Product and Engineering team's to create an experience for Associations to create and manage their events, sell merchandise and more.

Impact

We gave Associations the ability to create and customize their own e-commerce websites to sell products and events while not only scaling in growth but also propelling their members into the 21st century.

2016

Rasa.io

Tools

Adobe Illustrator, HTML5, CSS3, MDL

2015