experience matters design brings: strategic understanding of user needs within complex systems. articulated through research-informed artifacts & methods to communicate with engineers & product managers, in service to both end user's and business's goals.

LATEST NEWS:
I have officially hung up my Adobe suite and Figma software and am no longer consulting unless a really interesting, meaty project appears on my doorstep. With the market and UX landscape the way it is right now, I am focused on teaching, researching and writing about the history of the field, writing how-to books to help UX designers improve certain skills and making art for my press 8 Paw Press. Contact me at erin [at] emdezine.com to discuss any potential projects.

The Women of Interaction Design
Writing

The Women of Interaction Design

the women of ixd

book, website, connection maps. check it all out at womenofixd.com

past work focus areas

systems thinking
system architecture
information architecture

I diagram the big picture before
getting into the details. Its all about context of interactions
in the system.

Clients:
ADL
Autodesk
Capital One
Seagate
Yahoo!
Intuit
iBotta
Sustainable Minds
The Hunt
Ask
NURX
Verizon
Wisegate


early UX exploration & documentation
(task flows, scenarios, storyboards, wireframes, figma prototypes)
ux writing
usability, generative user research, observation

I document the details of 
the interactions at the page
level using a variety of tools
including figma and test concepts during ideation and to validate usability and usefulness.

Clients:
ADL
Ask
NURX
Wisegate
Verizon
Capital One
Netflix
Intuit
Seagate
The Hunt
Neptune Financial
Sustainable Minds
iBotta
etc.

social interfaces specialty

I help companies integrated meaningful social components into their applications and websites. Tasks ranged from advising, research, design & validation

Clients:
ADL
Autodesk University
CloudOn
Grokker
MyWorld
Oodle
SocialText
Spoke
StumbleUpon
The Hunt
Togetherville
TreeRing
Wisegate
Workr

pattern library & design standards
(advising, training, building)

I helped companies develop robust and useful pattern libraries as part of their overarching design system strategies. Work has included training, evangelizing, auditing, writing and organizing.

Clients:
ADL Social Pattern Library
Intuit mobile teams
Intuit One Identity
Akamai
Nokia
Citrix
Seagate

other specialties
hiring and mentoring:
I helped a lot of startups between 2008 and 2017 hire their first UX design staff. 


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