Ux Design Lead
CurrentDesign leadership role within John Deere’s Strategy & Transformation Team, simplifying, modernizing, and expanding the Fuel Design System across consumer, dealer, and enterprise channels. Defining strategic roadmaps for growth in partnership with Product Managers and Engineering Leads. Maturing experience design across the business.Responsibilities:– Delivering human-centric solutions that scale to meet evolving business needs– Leveraging research and various design methodologies to evolve the Fuel Design System– Partnering closely with Product Managers and Engineering Leads to drive innovation– Applying accessibility best practices (WCAG) across the system– Authoring and maintaining a comprehensive design language and component library– Defining and implementing leading design standards and best practices– Driving the product design lifecycle and continuous collaboration – Advocating for the value of the design system and user experience across the enterprise– Providing hands-on coaching across the businessAccomplishments:– Led cross-enterprise efforts that consolidated internally competing design systems into a singular, modernized solution for all digital products across customer, dealer, and internal experiences– Established a 2-year roadmap for the design system that defined priorities and success metrics, bringing predictability to a rapidly shifting space– Implemented an accelerated framework for high-quality research, ideation, and design that reduced cycle time by 60%– Developed a robust validation checklist to reduce bugs and improve consistency across the design team
