Background

UX Designers often enter the industry from an art or design background, and then work to fine-tune their research, information-gathering, and analytical skills.

I took the opposite path.

If you’ve ever seen Trevor Van Gorp’s UX iceberg, picture me starting from underwater climbing a giant ladder to the top of the iceberg. I began my career as a strategist, learned how to gather effective requirements, and then how to organize that information. Everything I learned during my climb “up the iceberg” has helped me succeed in my current design role.

The journey is far from over, but here is where my travels have taken me so far:

I started out by studying business for my undergraduate, concentrating in Strategy and Operations Management Science. (Market Research, Product Strategy, Statistics)

After graduating, I began my career at IBM as a consultant, working on projects in primarily business analyst roles with a side serving of project management. (Requirements Gathering, Optimizing Process Flows, Wireframes, Writing Specs, Managing Scope)

I eventually transitioned into into UX Design and was promoted into IBM’s Interactive Experience Division. (User Centered Design Process, IA, UI Design, Interaction Design, Prototyping)

Through a combination of side projects and online courses, I worked to deliberately round out my overall Design skill set. (Visual Design, Branding, Usability Testing, User Research, Content Strategy)

Please contact me to see additional case studies around my client work and front-end web development.

King Kog Bicycles Rebranding and Visual Design Experiment

Re-designed King Kog's website with a focus on the Visual Design elements.

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Design Lab User Research Study

Researched why student's were completing the Designlab UX Academy course at a sub-optimal pace and provided recommendations.

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Design Exploration Into a Daily Journal App

A mock app design writeup which captures the research, testing, prototyping, feature prioritization, and high level design for a daily journal app.

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Two Day Prototyping Sprint for a Lottery App Concept

I can hack together a prototype and bring designs to life using JS/CSS/HTML (web) or Swift (iOS). I may not know how to do something right away, but you can bet I'll have a good time diving into Stack Overflow until I figure it out. If there is a need to test something faster, I'm also comfortable using paper prototypes, InVision, and Axure. 

This case study documents a two day prototyping sprint I worked on independently for a lottery app concept in iOS Swift.

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