Thank you for being here! I want to share some of the products I’ve helped design. With remarkable employers such as Impact Suite, Pluralsight, ASI, OC Tanner, and Canopy, I will show my contribution to the collaboration process and what I learned along the way.
My role: Product Designer
How my role as Product Designer helped contribute to Pluralsight’s partnership with Microsoft brands Visual Studio and Azure.
Working closely with Adobe, here is a case study of our partnership journey, starting with research, the early stages of prototyping, to the live launch.
As the UX Product Designer for the Partnership Team, I was asked to create a vision document that depicts success as we align with the company mission, values, and strategy.
Read about my role as a Product Designer to help realize the decade-long vision of a partnership by Pluralsight’s Aaron Skonnard and Stack Overflow’s Joel Spolsky.
Here I will explain the design and metrics of Pluralsight’s partnership with Unity, the creator of the world’s most popular software for video game developers that reaches nearly 3 billion devices worldwide.
How our team created a tool for the Partnership Team to create, edit, and publish customized homepages for each of Pluralsight’s partners. This optimized each team member’s time to spend working on their respective strengths.
My role: UX Product Designer
I explain my role as a UX Product Designer as we built the quintessential accountant’s tool of a calendar. From the ground up, see the versions, mockups, and what we learned to improve each iteration.
See how we designed a remarkable tool that transforms the way accountants help their clients with tax resolution. Created an easy step-by-step decision tree to quickly help an accountant move forward, saving hours of time.
I describe my involvement as a Product Designer as we built our file management system for accountants. In 6 months we witnessed the fruits of our primary KPI of adoption as the the number of files uploaded went from 1,500 files/month to 75,000 files/month!
My role: Lead UX Product Designer
The transformative re-design of one of the company’s biggest pain points — configuring the precise location of a vehicle. Read about how I led the project by using Directed Discovery (credit: Nate Walkingshaw). Check out the incredible before and after shots of this project.
Read about how I collaborated with our Agriculture Engineers to design advanced path-generating algorithms in Mobius to calculate the most efficient area coverage pattern for a vineyard, taking into account the type of task, size of implements, number of vehicles, turn radius, and more.
Read about my collaboration with our Automotive Platform Engineers to create a much needed feature called Playlists — to create a series of repeatable tasks for an autonomous vehicle, saving Ford valuable time while increasing efficiency.
Technology has the power to create freedom, equality, and opportunity around the globe. While at Pluralsight, I was able to be taught by some of the brightest minds in philanthropy and human-centered design. Read about some of the projects I was able to be a part of.
Check out my 2018 presentation on improving writing skills as a designer. I offer insight on the impact designers can have on a product by replacing “lorem ipsum” with meaningful language.
After 15 years in the luxury watch business, (brands like: Rolex, Omega, Breitling, and Patek Philippe) what was the one technology tool I wish I had? I build that exact tool. Take a look.
Deck the halls with boughs of Keynotes! Here are some impactful slide decks I have designed.
