METHODOLOGY
DESIGN GUIDANCE WITH EMPATHY & UNDERSTANDING
RESEARCH
STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS • MARKET RESEARCH • COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS • USER INTERVIEWS
IDEATION
PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOPS • JOURNEY MAPPING • STORY BOARDING • WHITEBOARDING & SKETCHING
DESIGN
PROTOTYPING • WIRE FRAMING • PAPER PROTOTYPING • SITE MAPPING
VALIDATION
CIRCULAR SURVEYING & INTERVIEWS • MODERATED/UNMODERATED USER TESTING • ANALYTICS ANALYSIS
TOOLBOX
UX PROCESS
Design thinking and user-centered design methodology, stakeholder and internal surveys and interviews, customer/user surveys and interviews, competitive research, qualitative and quantitative user testing (moderated and unmoderated in-person or via UserTesting or UserZoom platforms), workshops (synchronous, generative, evaluative, mapping), affinity diagramming, empathy mapping, ideation, dot voting, prioritization for now, next, and later, journey mapping, experience mapping, biz process modeling notation, service blueprinting.
DESIGN & ARTIFACT GENERATION
Wireframing, prototyping, Sketch, Figma, InVision, Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Zeplin, Visio, Marvel, Basamiq, Mural, HTML, CSS, currently learning Miro. 20+ years experience with digital product design, creative/art direction, designing for campaigns, brands and identities, and print and press checking.
USER TESTING, ANALYSIS, & MEASUREMENT
UserTesting.com, UserZoom, Google Analytics, NPS, KPIs (familiarity with metrics-based success measurement).
FRAMEWORKS & CONTEXTS
IOs, Android, responsive, adaptive, SAAS, enterprise software, ecommerce, WCAG 2.0 accessible design, and familiarity designing withing HTML5, Angular.js, and Javascript stacks. Extensive experience designing digital products within the fintech, banking, trading, investment, insurance, and lending space. I also freelance in support of branding/identity design, marketing/campaign support, and website creation.
TEAM MANAGEMENT
Creative and ux/ui design team management, mentorship, vendor management, presentations, Agile, Jira, Confluence, road map creation and cadence (I prefer Roadmunk), Webex, Zoom, Google Slides, Keynote, Powerpoint, MS Office, Excel, and currently learning Monday.com.
PORTFOLIO
UX CASE STORIES.
CAREER
MY JOURNEY IN DESIGN LEADERSHIP.
APR 2019- JUL 2020
FIRST TECH FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Director of User Experience
As Director of User Experience Design, I led ux and design initiatives for all transactional experiences within firsttechfed.com and associated platforms.
AUG 2009- OCT 2015
E*TRADE
Senior Design Manager, Trading
Promoted to lead the improvement of collective trading experiences for both E*TRADE.com and the E*TRADE Pro trading platform.
JAN 2021- PRESENT
FIRST AMERICAN
Lead, Design Manager
After taking 6 months off during Covid, I made the rather huge decision to relocate my family from the Silicon Valley to Meridian, Idaho. Joining First American in Jan '21 as a Senior Product Designer contractor, I was promoted 6 months later to FTE as Lead, Design Manager in August '21.
Currently in this remote role, in partnership with Research, Product, Engineering, and Business, I lead a team of six product designers and design technologists to replace and improve a legacy escrow services platform and its inherent task flows. The greater team and I help identify pain points, providing user-tested remedy during the translation and improvement into “Ignite” (the replacement platform). Within an Agile Scrum based framework and with Design Thinking methodology I determine, coordinate, and oversee product design “tracks” with two Lead partners and a super awesome UX Design Director.
OCT 2015- FEB 2019
PRUDENTIAL
Product Design Lead
I led a pod of three product designers in the creation, introduction, and improvement of Prudential financial planning and advisory products.
JUL 2001- AUG 2009
E*TRADE
Design Manager
Product design manager for the E*TRADE product design suite and related products and services
Prior work history provided upon request.
CONTACT DAVE
Drawing from user-centered design and design thinking methodology, I lead multidisciplinary teams through the journey of discovery, empathetic design and prototyping, and qualitative and quantitative design validation.
Feel free to visit my LinkedIn profile or contact me with questions about the creation and improvement of your digital experiences.
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