UX / UI Design

From portals to point-of-sale systems, websites, apps, IoT, and embedded devices – I’ve probably designed a screen for one!
I’m adept in identifying the right patterns to use, and how to make an experience that works.

Scroll down to see some of my latest UI work. ↓

Designing A Technology Experience That Supports Veterinarians

A Vetmed Device company wanted to uncover what type of information and technology experience could support the most user-friendly, informative and educational experience for veterinarians during critical animal vitals-monitoring at the clinic and at home.

Outcomes
-User insights
-Fully functional app prototype
-Fully functional dashboard prototype
-Design Documentation
-Custom loading animations
-Development Guidelines and Framework

My Project Role
Lead UX & UI Designer
Prototype Developer
Secondary UX Researcher
Illustrator

Key Activities
User Research
UI Design
Prototyping
Custom Illustration Design

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Prototyping The Vision for An Athletic Injury Recovery Device

The Sports Medicine and Clinical Physio Therapy Group at Grand Valley State University needed help exploring the potential of an idea. They needed help visualizing ideas, turning them into a working application and storyboarding the experience.

Outcomes
-Storyboards
-Fully functional app prototype
-Design Documentation

My Project Role
Lead UX & UI Designer
Prototype Developer
UX Researcher
Illustrator

Key Activities
User Research
UI Design
Prototyping
Custom Illustration
Storyboard Design

Leading A Team To
Design A User-Friendly Website That Drives Fundraising

A local non-profit called Grand Valley Artists needed help with their outreach. Through Weekend for Good, we helped them update their website and innovate on their potential to fundraise. The site also needed to be extremely easy to update and scale upone, since the team was unfamiliar with technology.

Outcomes
-New Website with Donation Platform
-Custom Wordpress Theme
-Reusable, Custom Component Library
-New Theme Builder
-Brand Assets & Icons
-Marketing Analytics Configuration

My Project Role
Team Lead
Lead Designer
Front End Developer

Key Activities
Strategy & Scope Planning
Team Resourcing
Information Architecture
Web Design & Prototyping
Front End Web Dev
Hosting Set Up
Plugin Configuration

Building an Ecommerce Site That Converts SaaS Subscriptions

A wire harness design software start up needed a website to sell their suite of cloud software products. They wanted users to create accounts and create their own manageable, repeat subscriptions and packages.

Outcomes
-New Wordpress Website with Custom Ecommerce Ordering
-Custom Wordpress Theme
-Reusable, Custom Component Library
-New Theme Builder
-Brand Assets
-New Marketing Copy & Campaign Taglines
-Lead Gen Automation

My Project Role
Project Lead
User Researcher
UX/UI Lead

Key Activities
Discovery & Strategy Planning
Information Architecture Design
Wireframing & Content Design
Web Prototyping
Front End Web Dev
Plugin Configuration
Marketing Automation Design

Designing A Modern Car Wash Technology Platform

A car wash franchise needed user strategy around their technology ecosystem, ultimately optimizing the user experience of their software and applications that runs their car washes. The system and user needs were vast - over 20+ types of technology, internal and customer facing, needing everything from user research, digital experience consulting, UI design, front end development and internal process design to scale and create new revenue growth opportunities.

Outcomes
-Custom Designed Figma Design System
-New Revenue Generating Digital Product Lines (B2b & B2c)
-New Customer Facing Application
(Gen 2& 3)
-New Point of Sale Application**
(Gen 3 & 4)
-Customer Journey Maps & User Flows
-User-Friendly Internal Operations Applications
-Custom Loyalty Program
-Documentation & Video Walk throughs
-Mobile App and POS Feature Roadmap

**This design was patented!

My Project Role
Lead UX & UI Designer
Prototype Developer
UX Researcher
Product Owner - Mobile Applications

Key Activities
Discovery & Prioritization
UX Research & Analysis
UI Design
Prototyping & User Testing
Strategic Product Plans
Roadmapping

Expanding A Nonprofits
Fundraising Capabilities

A local non-profit called the Dispute Resolution Center of West Michigan reached out to Code for Good for help with their online presence. They had big aspirations to serve more people with free and low cost dispute mediation services, but their website hadn’t been updated in over 10 years. During Weekend For Good 2024, we changed that!

Outcomes
-New Website with Donation Platform (Givebutter)
-Custom Wordpress Theme
-Reusable, Custom Component Library
-New Theme Builder
-Brand Assets & Icons

Key Activities
Strategy & Scope Planning
Team Resourcing
Information Architecture
Web Design & Prototyping
Front End Web Dev
Hosting Set Up
Plugin Configuration

My Project Role
Team Lead
Lead Designer
Front End Developer

Researching How a Rideshare Platform Can Expand Their Service Offerings

While exploring germ sanitation technology, a UV light manufacturing firm was looking to create an in-ride experience that would allow Uber’s riders to clean and sanitize their ride, and provide vending of snacks during the trip.

Outcomes
Fully clickable app prototype
User Persona Exploration

My Project Role
User Researcher
Lead UX/UI Designer
Prototype Developer

Key Activities
User Research - Persona creation, persona posters, usability testing at a conference
UI Design - lo and hi fed mockups
Prototyping - click through prototype used during usability testing.

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