Growing Junior UX & Product Talent

Despite a ton of big tech company layoffs, the market for well-trained design & product professionals is extremely tight. What can you do if you’re looking to hire? Accept it will take time Look for contract resources (which comes with its own challenges) Or, you can find that rookie with huge potential and level them …

E-Commerce with a Twist

This client represents the future of e-commerce and the sharing economy. On their site, women can search items based on normal options like size, color, and brand. Unlike other sites, the women have to share their zip code and the dates on which they need the item. That’s because this site facilitates women sharing their …

Lead Product & Design on Sales Platform

Fresh out of Techstars Boulder, this team had a big vision for a sales networking platform that they struggled to distill into an MVP. When I joined the team, I worked with the core founders (Sales & Tech) to build consensus around which features truly constitute an MVP, then develop a week-over-week detailed product plan that could be built …

iPad App for Insurance Sales

I worked on a team* of UX and Visual Designers to develop an iPad app for MetLife Japan’s insurance sales agents. The team brought me on to lead the analysis of the elaborate enterprise-level payment processing rules. Once I completed the analysis, I synthesized the requirements into a simplified checkout experience that did not expose the complex business …

Systems Level User Experience

For this non-technical startup founder*, software development resources became incredibly challenging to manage. I worked with her to manage the transition out of her long term CTO, then brought in the right developers to secure her code base, make patch repairs to restore the platform to its pre-existing state, then build the missing components to …

NYCares Mobile App Concept

Background: New York Cares matches approximately 53,000 volunteers every year to projects around the 5 boroughs through partner organizations. On the NYCares website, volunteers can search projects using a variety of criteria. This functionality is available through the mobile web, but is not optimized for mobile use, nor does the organization have a mobile application. …

Insurance Claims Processing (Enterprise)

Background: Our client employed a central billing office to manage the insurance claims processing for a 200+ network of nationwide clinics. The data on the insurance claims were created from doctors’ visits, then reviewed, edited and sent by the central office to 700+ insurance companies. The existing system used by those submitting claims (“billers”) was not …

The jargon reflects underneath the written flute.

The horizon or skyline is the apparent line that separates earth from sky, the line that divides all visible directions into two categories: those that intersect the Earth’s surface, and those that do not. At many locations, the true horizon is obscured by trees, buildings, mountains, etc., and the resulting intersection of earth and sky is called the visible horizon. When looking at …

The leak coasts inside every closure.

The horizon or skyline is the apparent line that separates earth from sky, the line that divides all visible directions into two categories: those that intersect the Earth’s surface, and those that do not. At many locations, the true horizon is obscured by trees, buildings, mountains, etc., and the resulting intersection of earth and sky is called the visible horizon. When looking at …

Hey! Gaming has entered new era!

The horizon or skyline is the apparent line that separates earth from sky, the line that divides all visible directions into two categories: those that intersect the Earth’s surface, and those that do not. At many locations, the true horizon is obscured by trees, buildings, mountains, etc., and the resulting intersection of earth and sky is called the visible horizon. When looking at …