A few things I'm pretty good at or have experience in
New project strategy
- Leading discussions with stakeholders to identify who, what, why to clearly identify the problem
- Running design/discovery workshops
Design strategy
- Ability to articulate the user experience through personas, workflows and site maps, experience maps
- Quick sketch prototyping
- Paper prototyping/digital prototyping
- Wireframes and interaction design
- Visual design
Content strategy
- Designing CMS platforms to support applications and web content
- Leading content restructuring projects by determining content architecture and hierarchy
- Running card sorting exercises to determine appropriate content grouping
- Running usability testing and surveys
- Managing QA process and reporting of bugs and improvements
Testing & quality assurance
- Overseeing design team, reviewing work, estimating deliverables and reviewing budgets
- As part of a leadership team, providing insight and strategy on behalf of the team and agency
Managing
Communicating
- Pitching design rationale to internal and external stakeholders
- Collaborating with entire team (eg. developers, PMs, AMs, clients, other designers) on design strategy, idea generation and design concepts
- Drafting product requirements and user stories
- Leading all design strategy related discussions, brainstorming and solutions
Applications I'm pretty comfortable with:
- Design: Sketch, Omnigraffle, InVision, Adobe CC
- PM: JIRA/Confluence, Basecamp, Harvest, Slack