Ashley McKnight

Ashley McKnight

Ashley McKnight

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I'm fluent in the latest UX trends and equipped with the background knowledge to create compelling experiences for small startups and large enterprise organizations. I have a Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction with over 15 years of experience in user experience design.

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2022 — NowRockwell AutomationLead Design Strategist

2022 — Now

Seattle, Washington, United States

2021 — 2022Flywheel.ioSenior Product Designer

2021 — 2022

2018 — 2021GlobantSr UX Designer

2018 — 2021

Seattle, WA

Collaborate with product management & architecture to deliver a robust UX strategy, design, UI standards, and processes that ensure consistent implementation of final designs, and most importantly, positive outcomes for the client's customers.

Lead the design side of a SAFe train with seven implementation teams, guiding the work of six designers

Manage the UX implementation of the component library feeding the client's design system

2016 — 2018Placements.ioUser Experience Designer

2016 — 2018

Seattle, WA

Tackled day to day design decisions in code while maintaining a long term product design vision.

Increased information density and readability of a heavily used data grid

Redesigned reporting interface from a static HTML page to a dynamic

single page app

Defined use cases and requirements and designed the workflow and UI for a

feature enabling targeting sales a’la carte

Designed initial concepts around how to integrate ad sales by auction

Created infographics to describe the product’s function

Implemented features in Rails/React stack

2014 — 2015Hewlett-PackardUX Lead

2014 — 2015

Seattle, WA

Led the user experience initiative for a redesign of an enterprise monitoring and support web application.

Iterated on wireframes and comps spanning several screen widths to help drive conversations around project direction

Led team of three designers in creating new takes on application wide search

Developed a UX strategy around technologies and design architecture for enterprise support

Promoted use of corporate design system

Education

2003 — 2004

Carnegie Mellon University

M. Sc.

2003 — 2004

1997 — 2001

Georgia State University

B. A.

1997 — 2001