Designed order management system for print production facility.
Order Management System (MVP)
Helped redesign world's first E-commerce experience for responsive web.
Peapod Online Grocery
Helped create interactive art installation that responds to proximity and touch.
Ice-Burg Project
Helped provide recommendations to Shedd Aquarium for improving exhibit accessibility.
Museum Exhibit Accessibility
Product Designer
My career as a Designer spans the gamut from Graphic Designer to Web Designer. From Visual Designer to UI/UX Designer, and now Product Designer. I've worked for corporations and startups, in Agile shops and Waterfall shops. I've also tried my hand at entrepreneurship.
I was exposed to the world of Experience Design by my colleague at Peapod, who mentioned he was in the HCI graduate program at DePaul at the time. I knew then I wanted to pursue the same career path, and so I enrolled in the program. I received my MS in Human-Computer Interaction from DePaul University in 2017.
My design philosophy is I believe in trying to get an understanding of a problem space, before jumping into a solution. I’m driven by working with smart energetic people, and I'm constantly trying to become a more effective communicator. I enjoy collaborating with others, and I often like to observe how others attack a problem.
I've been fortunate in my career to be part of great teams and work on interesting projects. Here is a selection of a few of my work samples:
Designed order management system for print production facility.
Redesigned Peapod Gateway page for desktop and mobile.
Created new information architecture for Peapod Help section.
Helped create interactive art installation that responds to proximity and touch.
Helped provide recommendations to Shedd Aquarium for improving exhibit accessiblity.
As a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) practitioner I rely upon a collection of methods and a systematic approach for investigating new problem spaces, validating design decisions, and testing for usability issues. These methods include:
Useful in ideating new features or systems.
Used for user testing as well as communicate designs with developers.
Crucial element of UX Design used for uncovering usability issues & collect qualitative and quantitative data.
Helpful for finding out users goals, needs, and pain-points.
Valuable tool for learning about users in their natural settings to gain new insights.
Useful for gaining insights into a new domain & learning user behavior.
Used to quickly finding usability & accessibility issue by following accepted guidelines.
Process of analyzing competitors in a particular domain, to learn how they handle common design problems.
Visual tool for conceptualizing a design solution through storytelling, using quick sketches.
Conducted on-line or in person to design an information architecture, and menu structures.
Used to plot out an ideal user's experience & visualize pain-points and opportunities for improvement.
Process of grouping insights into themes to gain understanding of a particular domain & generate requirements such as "user stories".
Quick and easy way to generate initial design ideas. Good for rapid iteration.
Used to collect qualitative & quantitative data. Can be distributed to a very large set of users, so statistical significance can be achieved.
Valuable way to save time by tapping into existing knowledge gained from previous studies.
Please note only a subset of my work can be displayed online due to NDA's. Feel free to reach out to me regarding work opportunities. You may also find me on LinkedIn.