Nick Shank Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

• I lead product design for Ascent’s core customer facing application and internal maintenance tools. I also lead user research, produce interactive and visual designs, defined the design process, and participated in.
• Defined and implemented the process for integrating product design with the engineering team’s agile practice to improve the product development process.
• Worked with the VP of Product and product managers to define strategy for our core customer product.
• Created a research practice by defining processes and creating guides and templates so others could participate in research activities.
• Designed a ruleset maintenance application to increase the efficiency of updating laws, rules, & regulations.
• Designed Ascent’s core product to improve navigation and allow for better discovery and findability of customers’ legal obligations.

Chicago, IL, US

• User Experience lead for multiple client projects including City of Santa Monica, Adient, Johnson Controls, Astellas Pharma, and First Solar. Conducted research, developed information architecture, created wireframes.
• Co-lead creation of two design systems
• Contributed to building the UX national practice through: - Leading the development of standardization for deliverables - Creating a design critique framework for the team to better learn from each other - Participate.
• Mentor junior designers to help in guiding their career and improve their design skills

Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, IL, US

• Lead UX designer for a custom content management system to support 30+ newspaper sites.
• UX lead on a larger design team that supported multiple properties of the Chicago Sun-Times. This work involved product strategy, design studio work sessions, wireframing and best practice recommendations for multiple.

Chicago, IL, US

Contributed to all phases of the design process for an internal application for submission and review of grants. Gathered requirements, created wireframes, and wrote the HTML and CSS while collaborating with the software engineers. Part of the team that was developing a Continuing Medical Education activity management system. This involved analyzing.

Chicago, IL, US

Designed web-based applications to support department operations, as well as designing, developing and managing the online presence for the Department of Medicine, multiple centers and institutes and research labs. Provided interaction design, information architecture and usability-focused creative direction for internal applications including a prototype.

Baltimore, MD, US

- Created multiple infographics for use in researchers’ journal manuscripts, book chapters, and grants- Designed and developed the Program for Genomic Applications HopGene website- Designed and produced multiple web broadcasting projects consisting of a series of lectures given by faculty (Update in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 2002 - 2004)..

Ms, Human Computer Interaction

Bgs, English, Journalism