• Downhill mountain biker wearing protective gear, and with a motion sensor tracking their movements sailing through the air.

    Designing & delivering a new product family

    UX Design, Interaction Design

    Over two years, we envisioned and created a new product family under the banner of Adventure Lab. We created two hardware devices, a range of accessories, an iOS app platform, web platform, as well as a full set of brand experience assets, from packaging to visual identity. Contact me to request a portfolio presentation of this work.

  • Custom android motion camera showing an outdoor map with a person's motion trace and waypoints overlaid.

    Custom mobile interfaces

    Interaction & UI Design

    Working in a Think Tank at Nokia, I had the privilege to be part of designing an interface from scratch. Domain experience included IoT, photography, sensors, location, wearable displays. Contact me to request a portfolio presentation of this work.

  • Tablet user interface showing a information about the El Capitan Trailhead.  This was the first generation of a 0 to 1 product.

    Product design for low-power and flexible displays

    UX Design, Interaction & UI Design

    Project involved designing for low-power, flexible and transformable electronics. Rather than just adding a technology-driven tweak to existing products, we designed and prototyped a new totally new product capable of spanning multiple generations, with technology evolution enhancing the core experience. Contact me to request a portfolio presentation of this work.

  • Research participant holding an android phone, and viewing a survey question.

    Mobile design for experience sampling

    iOS Mobile Design, Mentoring, Startup

    Worked directly with the founding members of a small start-up to redesign the mobile product UI, and web application product information architecture, using Microsoft Fluent Design System, Figma. Mentored Junior Designer. https://www.lifedatacorp.com/

  • Local tax return filed and payment sent success page image.

    Local Business Taxes

    Design Direction, Product Design, Information Architecture

    The project goal was to redesign a legacy web product. The original product and development plan was a visual design reskin of the current product with a change in technology. I was able to convince the group to move forward with a change in direction, resulting in an increase in paying customers. https://lexington.accessgovernment.net/BusinessTax/#/

  • Map UI for an enterprise gov-tech product, showing the measurement tool.

    Enterprise product design

    Product Design, User Research

    One of the challenges with working in Enterprise design is that each customer may have their own configuration of the product and content that is unique to them. End-users often spend years learning systems and becoming comfortable with how to use them. I created familiar, accessible, designs aimed at retaining the interaction model and using our design system. https://www.accela.com/solutions/building/

  • HERE outdoor map prototype with a painted style of colors.

    Custom outdoor and realtime maps

    Map Style Design, UI Design

    I’ve been involved in the design of multiple map styles and concepts - from the detailed data and cartographic challenges of a new outdoor map, through to custom maps based around contextual needs and real-time data. https://www.here.com/

  • Computer next to a starbucks coffee cup, both sitting on a table.

    Partner Hub

    User Research, Usability Testing

    I worked with the Starbucks Digital Partner Design Team to redesign a communication and collaboration product that supports store manager and shift supervisor planning, decision-making, and running the store floor. Contact me to request a portfolio review.

  • Mobile phone sitting on a custom heuristic evaluation checklist created to evaluate the competitiveness of nokia mobile products against apple and google.

    UX competitiveness program

    Usability, Competitive Analysis, Workshop Facilitation

    One challenge of UX design is placing it within larger company processes - such as goal setting, benchmarking, and quality.  We created a program of peer review-based competitive analysis that produced actionable recommendations, as well as a quantitative measure used in wider company strategy.

  • Image of a user experience benchmarking report page using the single usability metric known as SUM.

    Product Research

    Quantitative Research, Qualitative Research, Advanced UX Analytical Methods

    I am trained in qualitative and analytical methods that help teams use the scientific process to discover, define, measure, analyze and improve products. My training also include problem-space research methods that help companies find gaps, and serve a full-range of customers, not just the mythical 80%.

  • Mobile design

    Interaction & UI Design, Usability Testing, Team Lead

    Working on early Mobile Phone digital and physical interfaces. I created designs for voice, data, multimedia, location services, and accessories. I also ran qualitative and quantitative lab-based Usability Studies on hardware and software.

  • Mobile product design

    Product Design, User Research, Interaction Design

    To create useful, familiar and usable designs for a construction mobile inspector app, it was important discover existing task flows, interaction models, and the constraints of the job site. I redesigned the key screens to support being held like a clipboard, high-contrast, comfortable reading experience, requiring minimal scrolling, panning, or tapping of targets based on the discovery research. https://www.accela.com/solutions/building/

  • Citizen Access

    Product Design, User Research, Competitive Analysis

    One of the keys to designing a system for customers who all feel they are unique is to find the common threads. I researched and designed for the needs, behaviors, and pain points of city & county website administrators, residents, business owners, and building professionals as they engaged with the services offered by those cities and counties. https://www.accela.com/solutions/building/

  • Creating a UX Research Program

    User Research, Usability Testing, Program Creation

    I worked to understand the needs of people working in the Insurance and Auto Collision organizations helping to reinvent flagship products. I used an adaptation of the User and Task Analysis methods from JoAnn Hackos & Janice Redish for on-site observations and interviews, and for making the transition from synthesis to design. https://www.mitchell.com/

  • Building a design system

    Component Design, Design Tokens, Figma, Design Guidelines

    I am building a design system at CalPERS from the ground up for internal productivity products built on React and Bootstrap, using primitives and design tokens as a single source of truth for designs, and dev mode to improve the quality and speed to release front-end code.