Michaela Eaves Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

Work on a product development team focused on a major user-facing area of Socrata products through user experience design (UX), research, and testing. Identify high impact features that achieve user and business goals, and be able to clearly articulate rationale for your decisions. Collaborate with engineers and product managers to define features and functionality; pair-design with other designers and meet as a team for iterative feedback. Design interactions for new features, apply existing or create new design patterns across our platforms. Talk directly to the people using our platform to figure out what to build, or to evaluate prototypes. Work with your engineers to turn designs into working components and features. Work quickly and effectively, ship new features, bug fixes, and small improvements bi-weekly.

Western Washington

Volunteer position helping people prepare their pets and livestock for disaster and helping animals in distress. Manage information provided to the media and public during high-stress and legally complicated situations. Manage social media face of the organization, provide support for fundraising activities. Align collateral to a coherent branding image.

Develop designs and interactive prototypes in Axure for complicated hospitality industry-standard software in an agile work environment. Promote clean and intuitive design for users of all levels of computer experience to understand, but focusing mostly on users whose jobs are not computer-centric and have little to no experience with computers. Extend inherited visual design to new screens and patterns, as well as ensure consistency. Coach junior level UX/design team members on best practices in regards to graphic design standards and best practices for UX/UI. Compile and keep up to date UX and visual design standards documenting both inherited design/interactivity and developing complimentary work.

Developed designs and interactive prototypes in Axure for a highly technical web-based client handling databases of up to 40,000 dependent computers. Promoted clean and intuitive designs for users of all levels of computer experience to understand. Presented proposed product and worked with product owners to meet diverse and sometimes conflicting requirements.

Issaquah

Consulted and designed better user experiences for a number of groups within Microsoft (MSIT, CFE). Tasks included evaluation of products, development of wireframes, workflows, personas, user testing, Metro style implementation, conversion of online sites to mobile experiences, redesign of sites via persona-based methodology. Worked with each group to meet specific needs from a minor refresh of elements and architecture to reworking the entire online experience. Coordinated new branding efforts company-wide. Gave presentations on specs and designing sites to work well with SharePoint. Developed templates and created low-fidelity and high-fidelity comps. Facilitated persona development workshops.

Lead designer for mobile devices (Android, iPhone, iPad). Coordinated with Lead UX Designer. UI design and implementation, outside vendor management, file management and organization, spec contribution, asset management via Subversion (svn). Developed wireframes, user flows, final comps, production graphics for app development. Participated in market research, user research, and technical research. Assisted in peer reviews and discussion of software direction. Conducted brainstorming sessions.

Provided graphic support to the AOL mobile development team. Duties included skin design, generation, and implementation, graphical interface development and fine-tuning. Worked with vendors to produce marketing materials including branding development, press release materials, light Flash work, product photography, bug resolution. Managed file management and organization using version control software and programming in css, xml, html, and proprietary language sdl on a command line Linux-based development environment.

Provided graphic, marketing, user interface, and light coding support for interactive mobile devices. Duties included skin design, generation, and implementation, graphical interface development (user interface and experience design), hardware form factor design and guidance, fine-tuning, production of marketing materials including branding development, press release materials, product photography, bug resolution, file management and organization using version control software (svn) and coding in css, xml, html, and proprietary language on a command line Linux-based development environment. Participated in market research, user research, and technical research. Designed and built interactive prototypes in Flash to demonstrate functions, present ideas. Managed design processes and relationships with design-specific vendors.

Managed team of graphic designers and production of projects. Developed standards for online courseware, including graphical user interface, flash template, design doc and style guide, for a wide variety of screen real estate sizes.

Facilitated production of standards and graphics for assigned projects. Designed and produced internal graphics-related products adhering and refining corporate and projects.

This position began with fast-paced high-production ads and ended with prepress work and traveling from site to site to train other artists on Photoshop, Illustrator, and prepress methods.

Bfa, Graphic Design & Illustration

Activities and Societies: Art club, Alpha Mu Gamma (lingual society)fluent in German

Transfered, Graphic Design & Illustration