Ellen Butters

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Senior User Experience Designer, Public Sector at Amazon Web Services (AWS) @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Bethesda, Maryland, United States, United States
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About Ellen Butters

I enjoy connecting disparate people, teams and skill sets, and fostering collaboration to create the highest quality digital experiences. I love the challenge of designing beautiful interfaces within the data-driven parameters of good UX, with end products that are both usable and distinctly branded. It's a challenge with both subjective (how does it feel?) and objective (can I use it?) components, and solving both is a fascinating endeavor. I've been designing for 16 years and solving UX problems for 9, and as technology evolves it only gets more fun. View my portfolio at buttersdesign.com.

Ellen Butters's Current Company Details
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services (Aws)

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Senior User Experience Designer, Public Sector at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ellen Butters Work Experience Details
  • Amazon Web Services (Aws)
    Senior Ux Business Development Manager – Worldwide Public Sector (Wwps) Digital Innovation
    Amazon Web Services (Aws) Apr 2023 - Present
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    As a member of the AWS WWPS Digital Innovation team, I help strategic AWS Public Sector customers solve mission-critical problems during their early innovation stages. These solutions vary from helping public health officials combat medical misinformation to empowering college students to optimize their educational investments, to helping cities become more resilient to climate change. Leveraging Amazon's Working Backwards methodology, my role focuses on realizing new, big ideas by designing tangible, testable prototypes or service blueprints that wield the full spectrum of AWS capabilities. I help WWPS customers validate forward-looking solutions with their end-customers and then facilitate their next steps to building, including scoping a Minimum Loveable Product (MLP) and handing off to build partners. Throughout this process, I manage UX partners to scale resources up or down according to the needs of the customer.
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  • Amazon Web Services (Aws)
    Senior User Experience Designer, Worldwide Public Sector (Wwps) Innovation Studio
    Amazon Web Services (Aws) Sep 2021 - Dec 2023
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    As the Lead UX Designer of the AWS Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Studio, I oversee the strategy and execution of all human centered design (HCD) activities related to "innovation," including everything from idea through formal, large-investment, technological "build." Such activities include discovery research, ethnographic interviewing, problem/opportunity evaluation, persona development, stakeholder mapping, service blueprinting, problem/opportunity validation, concept design, concept validation, User Flows and UI design, prototyping (in collaboration with FE engineers), and solution validation. As a founding member of this net-new program, my role requires strategic thinking at the business level as well. My north star is working on opportunities that make sustainable, lasting impact on the world's largest problems (e.g. climate change). This impact should be a win-win-win for people, the organizations whose missions are to serve them, and AWS.
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  • United States Digital Service, White House
    Digital Service Expert, Full Stack Ux Designer
    United States Digital Service, White House Jul 2017 - Aug 2021
    This was an intense, 4-year "tour of service" at USDS, which sits in the White House. I used every tool in the Human Centered Design toolbox to solve both emergency, short-term design and technology problems (through discovery sprints), and longer-term modernization and product-development projects. Contributed to cross-agency immigration programs such as Refugee (USRAP), Unaccompanied Children, and Asylum; large-scale Medicare API initiatives; and the initial CDC COVID response website.More specifically:Designed real time dashboards and daily snapshots to help the highest levels of government understand the movement of migrant unaccompanied children and families entering the U.S. at the southern border; visualized forecasts for different policies that enabled the White House to make critical, data-driven decisions.Applied Human Centered Design (HCD) principles and practices to design an Asylum case adjudication app that increased both the efficiency and fairness of Asylum decisions at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).Designed a website, explainer video, and software prototype to raise awareness and understanding of a new Medicare API—‘Data at the Point of Care’—that gives a patient’s health providers visibility into their collective treatment history, so they can provide faster, more informed, better quality health care.Defined a new, centralized Creative Director role for the U.S. Digital Service; produced the foundational style guides and templates for the agency’s branding, storytelling, and recruiting, including a new website, event materials, and administrator slide decks.
  • National Geographic Society
    Ux & Design Director
    National Geographic Society Jan 2016 - Jul 2017
    Washington, Dc, Us
    As the top Digital creative of the Society, I oversee the IA, UX, User Research, and visual design of the nationalgeographic.org Web site. Since the Society became a separate, non-profit entity from NG Partners in November, 2016, I have focused on two major UX initiatives: 1) Building a new, mobile-first component-based web design system to meet the business and user needs of a now fully mission-driven organization2) Adding a huge amount of content to the site in a way that is intuitively organized, seamlessly connected, and efficiently driven by a Salesforce CRM. It has been an honor and a pleasure to play a role in rebooting what some of us like to call "the oldest start-up in the business."
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  • National Geographic Society
    Director Of Platform Design
    National Geographic Society Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
    Washington, Dc, Us
    I improved user experience across NatGeo's digital products, while working with the Advertising sales department to create a new generation of National Geographic digital offerings. I managed and strengthened the UX & UI teams. I brought innovative thinking and Lean design methods to all editorial, community, and mission-based digital projects.
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  • Marvel Entertainment
    Digital Design Director, Digital Media Group
    Marvel Entertainment Apr 2012 - Mar 2014
    I was the creative lead for the Digital Media Group at Marvel. My team designed and enhanced the Marvel.com website, apps, emails, and white-labeled sites. We created knock-out user experiences while strengthening the Marvel brand.• Built a strong six-person digital design team from scratch with a limited budget.• Gave creative vision to design team, ensuring visual consistency and collaborative problem-solving. • Load-balanced design resources to accommodate fluid schedules and rush projects. Encouraged career building and filling in skill set gaps. Created UX wireframes for designers when needed.• Rebranded Marvel’s Web sites and apps from scratch, achieving rare consensus among dozens of stake-holders. Applied brand to a huge range of applications spanning multiple platforms and experiences.• Branded and art-directed Marvel Unlimited from scratch, a new digital comics subscription app.• Transformed Marvel.com into a modern Responsive site, with reusable modules and templates. Applied best UX practices, incorporated new ad units, and gave more editorial controls to content producers.• Spearheaded the creation of an online Style Guide and UI Pattern Library. Both internal and third party teams used these resources to accelerate Dev schedules multifold. • Collaborated relentlessly with Dev & QA teams to lock in design integrity without eating into schedules.• Sought out and applied user feedback and testing to improve designs.• Presented design team achievements and industry trends to Marvel leadership.
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  • Scholastic
    Digital Art Director, Book Clubs Online
    Scholastic Jul 2010 - Apr 2012
    New York, Ny, Us
    With the Creative Director, I managed a team of 12 designers, image producers, and copywriters, tasked with producing visual designs for the Book Clubs website. This included a marketing sites, online ordering applications for both parents and teachers, emails. I also directed the creative for the Back to Basics Toys website, a subsidiary company of Scholastic Inc.• Art directed team of 12, dramatically improved visual design and usability of the Book Clubs sites, defined GUI/brand standards, and maintained consistency between designers.• Transformed the Scholastic Book Clubs Web site from a simple translation of a print flyer into a modern, usable digital application that better leveraged Web interactivity.• Connected large, disparate teams to streamline the process of building new pages and features.• Concepted and designed microsite and online marketing of Storia, a new digital eReader app for kids.• Redesigned and managed the Back To Basics Toys Web site, a sub-brand of Scholastic.
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  • Barnesandnoble.Com
    Senior Interactive Designer
    Barnesandnoble.Com Dec 2007 - Jul 2010
    New York, Us
    • Designed innovative, reusable solutions to complex user interface problems, from start to finish, for bn.com and the nook eReader device. Deliverables included new page templates, sub-branded Web video pages, Gift Guide microsites, logos and promotional graphics.• Spearheaded and art directed the rapid integration of nook digital apps, eReading devices, and eBookstore throughout bn.com, initializing the nook eReading ecosystem.• Streamlined the design process and ensured quality control by templatizing all repeating graphic assets and pages. Collaborated with IA, Production, and Dev departments to improve user experience and ensure fast turnaround.
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Ellen Butters Skills

User Experience Art Direction Digital Media Creative Direction E Commerce Visual Design Typography Indesign User Interface Design Adobe Creative Suite Logo Design Graphics Web Design Layout User Interface Digital Strategy Web Development Graphic Design Interaction Design Usability Agile Methodologies Lean Ux Marketing Mobile Design Branding And Identity Concept Development Copywriting Illustration Photoshop Illustrator Art Wireframes Css Responsive Web Design Platform Design Email Design User Experience Testing

Ellen Butters Education Details

  • Parsons School Of Design - The New School
    Parsons School Of Design - The New School
    Graphic & Interactive Design
  • The New School
    The New School
    Graphic Design
  • Oberlin College
    Oberlin College
    Art History
  • Oberlin Conservatory Of Music
    Oberlin Conservatory Of Music
    Viola Performance

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