Work Events

Part of my senior and lead roles have involved education and training in the workplace. While that’s a given with this level/role, the below examples are things that I consider going above and beyond to help better our processes and design/developer practices.

Tools used: Keynote, PowerPoint, & Google Slides.

Brady Global

As a Senior UX/UI Designer, I focused a lot of my spare time on growing our design maturity and improving accessibility practices in design & dev. That meant giving presentations and running workshops around…

  • – UX process and best-practices
  • – Accessibility education (high-level)
  • – Accessibility training (w/ devs, design, & content)
  • – Email design & best practices (w/ new templates)

May 2019 –> September 2020

American Family Insurance

In my role as Product Designer, I was juggling too many projects to do much speaking or education. However, I did manage to find time for…

  • – Lunch ‘n Learn: “Accessibility = Usability”
  • – Pattern Libraries: benefits & best-practices

September 2020 –> May 2021

Northwestern Mutual

As a Lead Experience Designer within HR’s Employee Experience team. Along with owning the design/research work for our new intranet portal, I found time for…

  • – Benchmarking process and best-practices
  • – Accessibility audits, remediation, & strategy
  • – Personalization & customization best practices
  • – Lunch ‘n Learn: A11y in Practice (Q3 2022)

Blizzard (Battle.net)

In my role as Lead UX Designer, and Design Ops Coordinator, I also helped as the Design Thinking Guild leader. Our topics during 2022-2024 included:

  • – Defining “Design Thinking” at Blizzard
  • – Presenting & Storytelling as Designers
  • – Ethics in Design (partnering w/ Blizzard Legal)
  • – Design Accessibility & Inclusion

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