I am a professional user experience practitioner and strategist.
Why I do this
I love creativity and the pursuit of greatness. I believe in the power of imagination and stories. It is the act of bringing things to life that motivates me. Connecting ideas, taking risks, coming up with something new. This is why I chose UX. It’s more than just what I do… It is who I am.
I treat UX as the intangible design of a strategy that brings us to a solution. A natural energy and curiosity is what drives me toward asking why and how, working to define the user problem, and helping to clarify their actual goal. The process starts and ends with the user. Successfully connecting them to a delightful and meaningful experience is where my ultimate satisfaction lies.
How I work
UX is where all my skillsets intersect. Psychology, design, and business. I apply all three to the UX process from end to end.
Design: Applying creativity and imagination to UX and solving user problems is what I love. The acts of creation and innovation. Being able to build things that are beautiful, compelling, and delightful.
Psychology: My passion for psychology taps into the cognitive aspects of UX; empathy, memory & learning, and the science of human behavior.
Business: UX doesn’t occur in a vacuum. It’s in every aspect of a company. Remembering we work together for user success keeps UX grounded in creating things that end up in the users hands.
Core UX
- User Research & Interviews
- Persona Creation
- Narrative Journeys
- Mental Modeling
- Storyboarding
- User Flows
- Wireframing
- Information Architecture
- Data Visualization
- Reporting Structure & Design
- Product/Site Mapping
- Product Discovery
- Stakeholder Brainstorms
- Rapid Experimentation
- User Advocacy
- UX Vision & Management
Design & UX Development
- Visual & Graphic Design
- HiFi Mockups
- Prototype Creation
- Interface Design
- Interaction Design
- Requirement Documentation
Technical Skills
- Full range visual design skills
- Full range HTML/CSS skills
- Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
- Omnigraffle
- HTML5 / CSS3
- Less-CSS
- Bootstrap
- Responsive Design
- Cucumber Unit Testing
- *nix Command Line
I have also had a lot of collaborative experience with: Complex *nix and Windows build systems, CoffeeScript, JavaScript / jQuery, Node.js, NPM, Backbone.js, D3.js, jQuery UI, LAMP, Git / SVN, MVC Architecture, Xcode, Selenium.
I have been professionally involved in product and web design since 1995 and have no plans on stopping. I also have a degree is Psychology where I focused on applied behavior analysis, cognitive interaction, research, statistics, memory and learning.