Nathan Steele Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

London, United Kingdom, Gb

⭑ UX/UI Design: Beyond UXR, using site maps, user flows, and wireframes to create optimized hi-fi designs and prototypes that are also pressure tested later via users for either business validation or user testing.⭑ DesignOps and ProductOps: Create processes and find tools, in addition to frameworks, to optimize product workflows across various teams responsible across the full spectrum of product design and development.⭑ ResearchOps: Create UXR (User Experience Research) foundational documentation and templates to help empower the product org to quickly get up to speed on and implement UXR successfully.⭑ UXR Education and Coaching: When not actively involved in the research, teaching and consulting Product Designers, Product Owners, and Product Managers on how to plan, prepare, conduct, synthesize, and act on UXR.⭑ Recruiting and Onboarding: Assist in interviewing and followed by taking lead in onboarding new Product Designers.⭑ Alignment & Project Planning: Create flexible design thinking success frameworks that set teams up for success from the beginning all the way through the end of their features and work streams.⭑ Facilitate: Create and lead design thinking workshops for multiple teams for successful product and business outcomes.⭑ User Research: Conduct research into user needs via stakeholder interviews, SME (subject matter expert) interviews, user interviews, app usage via analytics and heat maps as well as surveys.⭑ Ideation: Ideate multi-million-dollar ai powered SaaS product idea via in pursuit of inspiring others to think outside of the box while ideating and defining solutions.⭑ Growth Hacking: Find and enhance frameworks that enable the product team to be more focused and make data informed decisions that positively impacts the customer while increasing ROI.

New York, Ny, Us

Apply design thinking, research, and business analysis strategies and skills to understand and solve problems for both internal stakeholders and external customers.⭑ UI Design and DesignOps: Designed hi-fi screens and prototypes, along with design systems and other process optimization methods, to streamline UI production.⭑ User Research: Conducted research into user needs via user interviews and testing.⭑ Service Design: Created service blueprints to allow optimization of systems and processes. ⭑ Facilitated: Ran remote as well as on-site design thinking workshops.⭑ Business Analysis: Researched and selected enterprise tools and software specific to improving automation as well as customer experience.⭑ Heuristic Evaluation: Found usability errors with existing sites and created mockups for resolving those errors.⭑ Collaborative Research: Worked with SMEs to define processes and tools to create significantly improved and optimized future states.

Raleigh-Durham, Nc, Us

Implement UX / UI for desktop and responsive web applications, iPads, and mobile devices. Identify business and user needs and optimized workflow efficiencies via design systems for B-to-B customers. Create requirements, develop information architecture, user flows, and conceptual wireframes. Guide product strategy with well-defined road maps, high-definition pixel-perfect design, prototyping, and user testing.⭑ Revenue Generation: Positioned client company for purchase by bolstering sales significantly through a design initiative that enhanced quality control software capabilities supporting product development for manufacturers. The software designed provided real-time signifiers for required adjustments and calibrations to ensure alignment with specifications and expectations.⭑ Cost Savings: Partnered closely with highly-matrixed teams on a complex client projects with evolving user requirements. Aligned expectations with reality and fine-tuned workflows and features in pixel form to save thousands of dollars in development costs and man-hours while also achieving user satisfaction.⭑ Compliance & Reporting: Led the process of building detailed design blueprint and related UX / UI materials for a government compliance and reporting application. Tailored user experience from start to finish with a reliable and efficient automated tool for highly regulated projects and entities.⭑ Visual Design: Upgraded design for internal customer management software supporting a lucrative product for a leading pharmaceutical company. Translated large volumes of information gathered from site maps and personas into functional, easy-to-use UI design based on information gathered from site maps and personas into functional, easy-to-use UI design.

Denver, Co, Us

Developed UI for iPhone and Android sitemap aligned with corporate brand and style guidelines. Recruited, trained and managed team to design, develop, and implement applications through design platforms and tools using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Provided IT support for chat system supporting 100 users. Designed and performed software tests of continuous improvement concepts to increase ROI; successful improvements were installed at multiple brand sites.⭑ Launched and Managed Adobe Scene7 Implementation: Streamlined batched coding processes for Adobe Scene7 for stand-alone in-house Imagine It flex online application used for customizing colors, fabrics, patterns, and lettering of workplace uniforms. Required development of over 100K handmade graphics. Project reduced process time from 12 to less than 1 minute per item.⭑ Increased ROI: Achieved approximately 60% ROI increase by implementing continuous improvement modifications to Scene7 system through software integration and improved design processes and aesthetics.⭑ Research and Evaluation: Researched and evaluated key metrics for on-site usage, providing data analytics to business stakeholders on optimal UI and UX design supporting user-friendly marketing and branding tools throughout the website⭑ Developed Graphical Vignettes: Authored dynamically colorized vignettes, including decal flowline areas for user ease and branding flexibility. Utilized IPS to create templates and e-catalogs allowing upload of images and vignettes to Scene7. ⭑ Created Style Guides: Developed brand-specific style guides for corporate merchandisers, marketing leaders, photographers, and stylists to best portray and accurately represent garments within brand style guides. Provided instruction for accurate representation through lighting, modeling, coloring, and sizing.