Owned and developed an easy to consume, comprehensive, WCAG 2.1 accessible design system for a health-tech start up that consisted of: an easy-to-use component library, pre built templates, best practices guidelines, training workshops and roundtable meetings.

Led prioritization workshops to discover design, product and engineering team needs and used the results to develop and maintain a clear roadmap to track and execute on design system progress.

Collaborated with an external team to audit and document accessibility in Stellar’s product which led to significant improvements through color, font, spacing, alt tags, and keyboard accessible patterns.

Increased the efficiency of design team processes by organizing and leading hands-on training sessions to teach advanced Figma features including complex components, booleans, nested instances, preferred instances, branching, auto-layout & complex prototyping.

Developed a proprietary component creation process called the “Rule of Three” accounting for simple, common and complex use-cases.

Co-founder of a cross-functional team focused on establishing governance processes regarding the implementation and execution of design system releases to the legacy product.

Collaborated closely with React engineers to audit, grow & maintain the Storybook code repository.

Provided UX support as the Design Lead of the Internal Ops team and brought several features to market including a system for managing users and features associated with practices and practice networks.

Owned & maintained design consistency & efficiency across Cigna through the creation of a easy-to-use component library, pre built templates, best practices guidelines, training workshops and roundtable meetings.

Organized & led personal hands-on training sessions to teach advanced Figma features including complex components, variants, auto-layout & prototyping to the UX team.

Upheld accessibility standards & ensured our products were inclusive for all by meeting WCAG 2.1 standards, which alleviated risk and allowed Cigna to gain & maintain clients in the private & public sectors.

Developed a comprehensive yet fast moving method of creating components that considered simple, common and complex use-cases.

Socialized the design system company wide with numerous business groups, engineering and design teams.

Created & managed a clear roadmap and system of organization for the design system team to move rapidly and measure against targets.

Collaborated closely with Angular and React engineers to audit, grow & maintain our Storybook code repositories.

Led the design and release of three multi-platform products, garnering 36.5K installs, 1.2M impressions, avg. click through rate 19.3%.

Improved brand consistency and reduced design debt through the creation and implementation of a design system.

Handed-off clear design deliverables to internal and external engineering teams reducing VDQA and accelerating product releases.

Conducted industry research with a focus on best practices, competitor UI and emerging technologies.