Greta Anderson Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

TLDR; Serving the Second Step product teams to research, synthesize, and design delightful experiences for school communities. In detail;UX Strategy:- Facilitated a human-centered product visioning process for the SEL district leader experience.- Mapped a viable and customer-validated path forward to improve outcomes for school and district leaders.- Overhauled the information architecture for the revised platform to be clear and scalable.- Hosted story mapping workshops to align disparate product initiatives into one coherent view.UX Design:- Designed account management interfaces and a mindfulness session library for teachers.- Designed a simple onboarding school setup flow for administrators- Researched, designed, and validated the classroom, school, and district-level lesson completion and program adoption reporting, including the design of the data export.- Advocated for usability improvements whenever and wherever possible.UX Research:- Led the research and design process to optimize the teacher experience for bilingual and dual-language classrooms.- Introduced new UX research methods to our team toolkit including unmoderated usability studies, design sprints, in-product feedback, and asynchronous research communities.- Planned and conducted benchmark usability studies to measure the product usability year over year.- Hosted interviews with SEL leaders to learn clear themes of what is most important at different levels of leadership.Teamwork and process:- Formed a UX Writers working group between designers and editors to collaborate on UX copy.- Strengthened relationships between impact research, instructional design, engineering, and UX design by including them in all stages of the design process.- Created a usability testing guide and toolbox to run usability studies quickly by partnering with product engagement and creating clear templates for research planning, scripts, note-taking, synthesis, and learning share-outs.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Asheville, Nc

Through creative strategy and technical solutions, Greenstone Media offers custom design and development for CMS Websites, eCommerce Websites, Web Applications, and Mobile Apps for a variety of enterprise industries and clients. As a UX strategist, I work with clients to determine project requirements, brand alignment strategy, and technical solutions. I conduct this process through intensive Research and Discovery phases that create user research summaries, value propositions, wireframes, prototypes, user story maps, and other HCD methods. After R&D completion, I prepare the project proposal and product development roadmap. I also contributed to visual UI designs for custom software web and mobile applications.As the VP of Software, I offer our development team full support and ensure all client expectations are managed and exceeded. By working with the department to prepare 30 and 90-day goals for revenue and quality, I have assisted the revenue growth of our department triple over the course of one year. As the lead project manager of the Software department, I schedule the weekly client meetings, setup project milestones, collaborate with developers on weekly development sprints, perform routine QA testing, and prepare invoices.

Asheville, North Carolina Area

As a graphic and web designer, brand strategist, and WordPress/Shopify developer I have been contracted for both graphic design and web design projects. These projects have included film documentaries, bloggers, independent creatives, and mid-size companies. I have also done work for non-profits who provide access to the disabled, equity and economic empowerment for communities of color, arts for children in hospice, and women's leadership coaching. I also have designed six book covers that are currently in print and in distribution.

Asheville, North Carolina Area

Skyrunner Inc is an Internet Service Provider in Asheville, NC. I began my position as an in-house designer to rebuild their WordPress website. I also created HTML and CSS e-newsletters and custom infographics for the company. I learned how to design and develop WordPress themes from scratch using Underscores and Bootstrap, ensured quality client relationships, performed server and site migrations, and closed sales for the Web Design Department.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Recruited 5 Sales Associates for their first summer offering educational at-home support materials. Our team worked in different localities across the US and in Canada.

User-Centered Design Certificate, Human Centered Design And Engineering

The University of Washington's Master of Science in Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) prepares its graduates for leadership roles.

Course Certificates, Usability Research And Best Practices

Established in 2002 in Denmark, the Interaction Design Foundation was inspired by the Scandinavian educational system to create low-cost.

Full Stack Immersion, Ruby On Rails Development Bootcamp, Certification

Tech Talent South offers an 8 week full stack web development bootcamp with Ruby and Rails the primary programming language. Course study.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design, 3.89

Activities and Societies: Service for Peace, Design ServiceGraduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in Graphic Design from the Shintaro Akatsu.