alexislucio.com Great design comes from cultivating experiences and sharing them with others; I love crafting thoughtful moments that drive users to confidence and delight. I take pride in unraveling the complex, boring problems that no one wants to tackle but everyone wants solved.

2022 — NowGitHubSenior Product Designer, Design Systems & Accessibility

2022 — Now

Notable projects: A11y Design Bootcamp, accessible drag and drop pattern, contributor to open source annotation toolkit.

Embed into feature teams as accessibility design subject matter expert, driving a "shift left" philosophy and ensuring a11y best practices are included in user research and feature development for key workflows within GitHub

Spearhead development and facilitation of a11y design education programs across design, user research, and product

Share first responder responsibilities with two to four teammates, including guiding weekly office hours and collaborating with a11y engineers to resolve issues

2021 — 2022SplunkSenior Accessibility Lead

2021 — 2022

San Francisco Bay Area

Audited design system for a11y design and shared results with cross functional partners to influence roadmaps for multiple teams

Led a team of a11y advocates to create component based a11y documentation for engineers to reference

Collaborated with cross functional partners in legal, compliance, and product management to baseline compliance and remediation standards across the product suite

Conceptualized and released (with a summer intern) an a11y design toolkit for designers to cross-check their designs and learn more about a11y

Spoke and attended major a11y conferences such as CSUN, axe-con, and AccessU

2020 — 2021SplunkAccessibility and Inclusive Design Lead

2020 — 2021

As Splunk's first and only designer dedicated to a11y and inclusive design, I worked with my colleague in QA Engineering to raise awareness, invest in proactive measures, and remediate current challenges around a11y (ay-eleven-why, or web accessibility). The team was founded in February 2020.

Generated awareness for a11y across all design teams at Splunk via monthly a11y talks and personalized workshops

Advocated for a11y within the product development life cycle from individual contributor to SVP level

Acted as a design liaison to field, sales, and legal to ensure customers have an accessible product experience

2018 — 2020SplunkUX Designer

2018 — 2020

San Francisco Bay Area

Collaborated with four other designers on Splunk Investigate, where I own end-to-end design on Alerting, Notifications, Homepage, and User Education

Initiated 3-month working teams pilot in order to test and iterate on design feedback process

Planed and executed community events as founding member of Latinx ERG

2020 — 2021Inneract ProjectAssociate Board Member

2020 — 2021

San Francisco Bay Area

Community Advocacy and Inclusion

Education

2010 — 2014

Stanford University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

2010 — 2014

Stanford Continuing Studies

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)