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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

My journey with EAB began after their acquisition of Cappex. Energized by the opportunities ahead, I continued with the firm to provide experience and forge new paths as multiple products converge and the team scales.End-to-End Product Design• Manage consumer-facing design• Ship high quality features across a number of products • Partner with product, business, and development leads• Plan and guide discovery and exploration• Connect design efforts to business value• Prototyping (various fidelities)• High quality visual design• Dev handoffChampion User-Centered Design• Deliver cohesive UX across consumer channels• Guide creation and evolution of personas and user journeys• Promote awareness of team research insights and UX artifactsDesign Systems• Lead design systems across direct-to-consumer and partner-facing UX teams• Plan DS organization and strategy• Provide guidance on systems-thinking and direction as DS grows and evolves• Partner with designers and developers to ensure quality standards• Provide channels for feedback from DS users to understand pain pointsUser Research• Guide and plan consumer-facing UX research• Deliver continuous insights to drive smart product decisions• Establish tools and processes• Create and refine UXR Roadmap

Chicago

I joined the growing product team at Cappex, excited to work on redesigning their flagship student platform — a search tool that helps students find their best-fit colleges and scholarships. Despite the uncertainty of the pandemic, our small team released a new experience that delivered increased student engagement and inquiries that vastly outpaced the former iteration. Soon after Cappex would be acquired by EAB in the Fall of 2020.Highlights:• Design lead for Cappex’s reimagined student experience • Informed and managed visual design / UI• Created Cappex’s Design System - components and system-thinking powered redesign• Designed, delivered, and tested features at lightning speed• Fostered a strong design and developer collaboration• Spearheaded Cappex's Brand Guidelines, brought together cohesive visual identity • Mentored junior and senior designers

Chicago, Il

• Championed the design culture at Legacy• Cultivated an evolving library of design patterns, assets, brand guidelines, and best practices• Ensured a consistent design language across products and channels• Drove incremental ecommerce revenue through strategic UX testing• Prototyped experimental features and new product exploration• Created promotional product videos, video templates, and motion graphics for cross-functional product, marketing, and editorial teams• Designed large-scale entryway designs for new office build• Mentored junior designers and content producers

• Developed Legacy’s first brand book – setting standards and guidelines, spelling out typography, colors, logo usage, and personas• Increased engagement across editorial sites and social channels• Responsible for design direction of B2B marketing channel and trade show productions• Guided editorial and social teams to help shape their unique voice and ensure consistency

Chicago

• Designed and developed CBA’s first ever online continuing legal education platform• Developed video production and management systems and processes• Redesigned public and member-facing site • Managed streaming media production — early AWS Cloud services adopter • Oversaw brand management across public relations and membership• Responsible for in-house and offsite video production, photoshoots, and post-production• Filmed Supreme Court Justices Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Hon. Sonia Sotomayor, and Hon. Sandra Day O’Connor.

Chicago

• Website design and development, full stack branding services, and print collateral