Digital Product Designer : UI + UX / HTML / CSS / JS / Rails / Git / Design Systems / Customer Research / Product Management / Jobs to be Done / Shape Up
I’ve been a Product Designer for 10 years (Kickstarter, BarkBox, Brad Frost), and designing sites for over 20 years.
I joined as their first in-house designer. I lead design efforts from initial sketches to building with HTML, CSS, and JS across multiple products. Additionally, I am establishing the design process, integrating the Jobs to be Done framework, and collaborating with Product Managers on product strategy.
I am currently designing and developing this using Ruby on Rails. Consider lets close friends privately share thoughtful long-form recommendations with one another.
I designed prototypes and landing pages used while conducting customer research to inform new products and site features that would enable small businesses to use fixed-priced healthcare.
I organized and conducted customer interviews with Chris Spiek, an architect of the Jobs to be Done framework and Head of Product at Auth0.
I then used those interviews to write Business Cases that detailed the problem space around customer pain points, trade-offs, and the progress they were trying make. These Business Cases informed product strategy and outlined valuable opportunities for customers and Auth0 that were scoped and prioritized with Engineering and Design.
I led Design for all of Kickstarter's category pages, search, and project recommendations. I co-created their first customer research process and used the Jobs to be Done framework.
Design Systems, International, & Payments Team:
I contributed to creating and maintaining our design system and documentation. I helped launch Kickstarter in 10 new countries, support 3 new languages, and 12 new currencies.
Ranked #12 in Kickstarter codebase by commits:
I am still ranked #12 by commits from designing and building production-ready components and pages directly in the codebase through peer-reviewed pull requests.