Deborah Levinson Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

Expert UX design and consultation services in UX strategy, qualitative user research, feature/flow design, and information architecture. I specialize in higher education, but also serve corporate and nonprofit clients of all sizes on my own or in partnership with visual design and/or development firms.

Boston, MA

Teach students in Northeastern's graphic design program how to code websites in Foundation, a responsive design framework, as well as introductory JavaScript with jQuery. Students learn how to use Foundation and jQuery to implement basic interaction design principles: hierarchy of information (displaying and reflowing content based on importance and.

Greater Boston Area

• Consulted with higher education institutions, software companies, and nonprofit organizations on all aspects of user experience design, including:
• Persona and scenario creation
• User research and user testing to inform and assess prototype features and usability
• Heuristic reviews evaluating how well websites and applications followed best practices for usability, content, and visual design, as well as recommendations for how to address short- and long-term issues
• Information architecture and taxonomy development
• Wireframing and feature design, creating wireframes detailed enough to serve as developer specifications

Greater Boston Area

Maintained, enhanced, and expanded strategic internally and externally facing websites for ATG, including www.atg.com. Met with clients throughout company to analyze business needs and design new functionality, including migrating atg.com's extranet, My ATG, to ATG Portal platform, and designing a new corporate intranet that unified multiple sites with a.

Greater Boston Area

Led discovery project investigating need for a campus-wide events calendar, ultimately recommending adoption of in-house solution developed by MIT students; oversaw design and usability aspects of events calendar development. Managed production, design, and content creation of MIT's first virtual tour. Responsible, along with other Web Communications.