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Location
Redwood City, CA, United States
Toptal Member Since
March 1, 2017
Kelly is a senior product designer with extensive UX/UI/design experience, delivering excellence to top tech companies including Intuit, Yahoo!, and Teradata. She also has broad experience with startups, designing native mobile and responsive web from ideation to launch. Kelly works well independently and with teams.
Work Experience
Sr. Product Designer
2017 - 2018
Airtime
- Designed a new navigation bar for sharing YouTube, Soundcloud, GIFs, and chat. New design increased Soundcloud sharing by 400%.
- Redesigned activation flow, improving user education through video, and streamlining the signup process. New flow increased user invites by 200%.
- Conducted user research around popular social media avatars, lenses, and filters. Iterated on new designs for app avatars based on user testing.
- Designed several popular user features such as talking avatars and sound reactions to use during live video chat.
- Integrated the new company brand into existing IOS app. Worked closely with an advertising agency to integrate brand strategy.
- Designed the new UI for accepting friend requests without interrupting the user experience.
Technologies: Adobe After Effects, Flinto, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch
Sr. UX/UI Designer
2016 - 2017
Eyefluence/Google
- Expanded experience into the virtual and augmented reality field. Drove design and user experience testing on an innovative UI that integrates eye-tracking with natural eye bio-mechanics in the latest augmented (AR) and virtual reality (VR) Headsets.
- Conducted ideation and design sessions for UI such as AR/Bluetooth Appliance Control (Control radio with AR glasses) and VR iKeyboard (type with eyes), among others.
- Created Unity prototypes in a designer-oriented tool that allowed quick ideation without engineering impact.
- Implemented user testing using a variety of hardware and prototypes. Determined metrics that led to VR and AR application enhancements.
- Designed prototypes for VR menus, AR on/off eye tracking sequences, and user education screens.
Technologies: Adobe After Effects, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, InVision, Unity
Sr. Product Designer
2013 - 2016
JustVisual
- Worked closely with stakeholders to define business requirements and users to define goals.
- Constructed UI to guide the user through the easiest learning curve and best first use with the new technology.
- Developed a user testing program for stakeholders and users. Tested with a variety of methods including paper prototypes and Invision mockups.
- Conducted user research in the field with follow-me-homes and scrappy onsite user testing with prototypes.
- Final award-winning app suite for verticals around fashion, home décor, pets, facial recognition and plant identification were launched.
- Won top award at Mobile Photo Connect Conference 2015 and a 2015 Webby Award for LikeThat Décor app.
Technologies: Pixate, InVision, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Sr. User Interaction Designer
2012 - 2013
Yahoo!
- Designed the Yahoo! Weather app, winner of a 2013 Apple Design Award and was rated #1 app in 98 countries.
- Led and executed all phases of app ideation and design. Created and pitched prototypes to Yahoo’s CEO, upper management, and Apple executives.
- Responsible for using analytics to uncover insights into the way users consume weather data. These findings inspired the app’s highly unique UI and design.
- Designed a cutting-edge UI and presented it to upper management with a variety of low fidelity and high fidelity prototypes.
- The resulting app had a unique design that allowed easy and pleasing consumption of weather data while also meeting all of the business requirements.
Technologies: InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Proto.io
Sr. User Interaction Designer
2011 - 2012
Intuit QuickBooks
- Managed 65+ projects from planning to asset delivery < 9 months. Supervised three direct reports (Interaction and Visual Design). Evaluated work, mentored, trained, scheduled, and prioritized workload.
- Coordinated with marketers, users, and development staff to define need, understand user goals, and gather business requirements.
- Chaired ideation and usability studies.
- Created materials including card sorts, storyboards, surveys, paper and HTML prototypes, wireframes, and high fidelity mockups.
- Achieved a 60% sign up increase after re-engineering of QuickBooks in-product free trial registration.
- Innovated and executed QuickBooks Marketplace with $1.2M forecast value.
Technologies: InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Sr. User Interaction Designer
2010 - 2011
Intuit - Turbotax
- Oversaw TurboTax core areas around 401k, stock sales, rental properties and charitable donations.
- Led ideation sessions, and remote and onsite usability studies. Developed support materials that include follow-me-homes and user journey lines.
- Worked closely with marketing to incorporate behavior economics into designs.
- Designed upsell for returning users generating $2M in 2011 and forecasted $5M-$6M annualized.
- Won Scott Cook Award for newly designed upsell.
Technologies: HTML, InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Sr. UX/UI Design Consultant
2009 - 2010
Teradata
- Conducted qualitative research sessions with SME’s, and internal engineer team.
- Performed requirements gathering, prototypes, wireframing, and persona development.
- Steered team to create user-focused software by creating a feedback group with external users.
- Helped to standardize a companywide approach to user testing software development.
- Resulting user research led to a major project’s revisioning, saving the company extensive engineering and project costs.
Technologies: Jira, Confluence, InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Sr. UX Designer Contractor
2008 - 2009
Verizon NetworkFleet
- Created and executed a customized usability study for real-time GPS tracking and diagnostics system software that maintains 100K+ vehicles.
- Tailored study to meet company’s business goals, timeframe, budget, and technical requirements.
- Worked closely with CEO and upper management encouraging them to include usability study in the project.
- Project resulted in monitoring dashboard, streamlined reporting and user-friendly tools for improved management of fleet data.
- Verizon NetworkFleet - Awarded 2009 Silver Dealer Design Award for Contractor Services & Software.
Technologies: Jira, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Education
1998 - 2002
Continuing Education in HTML Programming, Computer Animation; 3D & After Effects
School of Visual Arts - New York
1993 - 1997
Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honors in Graphic Design
University of Florida - Gainesville, Florida
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