I am happy to see you!

May I help you to imagine, build, and improve your digital products?

I am a passionate user experience designer, with additional skills in information architecture, user interface design, and content development. With these skills, I can collaborate with your teams to create successful user experiences for your products.

User experience is big topic. It covers every detail that affects a user and your product. It includes how users learn your product, how they understand it, and their their willingness to return. Do they see value? Is it reliable? Do they enjoy using your product? 

Building a good user experience takes work.
And it takes a team.

Collaborating as a team, we can merge users’ genuine needs with business goals and technology capabilities into valuable, viable, usable, and enjoyable experiences. 

Yes. It can be complex — but working together, we can do it!

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To help with your products, let me offer a few of my skills:

 

• Collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to develop successful user experiences (UX).

• Champions user-centered design thinking to define, build, and improve digital products.

• Leverages research, testing, and analytics to validate user needs, usability, and value.

• Visualizes information architecture (IA) to promote clear navigation and resilient content.

• Presents sketches, wireframes, maps, and flows to build understanding and consensus.

• Develops prototypes with multiple tools and methods to test and refine solutions.

• Creates smart, engaging visual design (UI), interactions, and content assets.

• Guides content management systems to support useful and usable user experiences.

• Experienced with agile and lean UX methodologies, with both scrum and kanban approaches.

• Brings proven communication skills to support productive conversations and problem solving.

• Promotes cohesive UX across product eco-system: responsive, tablet, mobile, and more.

• Understands data-driven workflow and visualization for enterprise productivity systems.

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I invite you to explore this PORTFOLIO.

It shows a few of the projects, applications, and teams with whom I have worked. I would love to hear your comments and thoughts.

You can review my RESUME and LINKEDIN profile.


Do you have challenges coming soon?

Let’s talk!

We can find a solution together!

 

 
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Professional skills I bring to your projects.

UX design
UX strategy
User testing
Wireframes, maps
Rapid prototyping

Information architecture
Data-driven workflow
Taxonomy
Content design
Content management

UI design
Mobile design
Visualization
3D models
3D animation
Media production

Agile methodology
Team leadership
Creative direction
Instructional design
Pattern libraries
Classroom teaching


I use multiple tools to sketch, wireframe, prototype, develop consensus, and produce assets:

Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe XD / EM
Sketch
MS Office 365
MS Dynamics 365
Apple Office Suite

Axure RP
XMind
OmniGraffle
Invision
Balsamiq Mockups
ZebraZapps
Authorware

Optimal Workshop
Inkling Habitat
Squarespace
Jira
Confluence
OmniPlan
OmniOutliner

Flash
iMovie
Vimeo
Cheetah 3D
Filemaker
HTML, XML, CSS
and more…


I have had the pleasure to work with many teams and organizations. Here are a few.

Kelloggs
Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod
Macworld Magazine
MAPP: Midcontinent Area Power Pool
McDonald’s
Metropolitan State University
National Park Service
National Storytelling Congress
NCTA: National Cable Television Association
Oster
Paddington Imports
Parducci Wine Cellars
Paterno Imports
Perkins
PFSA: Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance
Pizza Hut
Saint Paul Companies
Scott Foresman
Sears
State Farm
Storylines
Taco Bell
Tetra Pak
Tishman Midwest Management
Toro Company
Toyota Financial Services
TPT Twin Cities Public Television
TRW
United Airlines
University of St. Thomas
US Army Corps of Engineers
WAM!NET
West Publishing
Western Publishing
Worldparts
Xcel Energy
ZebraZapps - Allen Interactions

Ameriprise Financial
(most recent position)

3M United States
Allen Interaction - ZebraZapps
Andersen Windows
Ansul Fire Safety Equip.
ATV Information & Education Group
Authorware
Baldwin
Baxter Healthcare
Boston Science Museum
Boy Scouts of America National Museum
Cahokia Mounds Museum
Carleton College
Caterpillar
College of Visual Arts
Commonwealth Edison
Concordia University
Consulting Psychologists Press
Dairy Queen
Donna Lawrence Productions
Donnelly
EFunds
Esmark
Fairview Health Systems
General Electric
GTE Directories
Hammond Organ
Healthtouch Systems
Honeywell
James River
Jensen
Johnson’s Wax
Kearney