I first attended Herron School of Art and Design studying Visual Communications. I then went on to receive a Bachelor's in Digital Art and Design from The Art Institute, with an emphasis on branding, marketing, software, and user experience.
I've since worked & partnered with a lot of fantastic technology companies worldwide. That experience has allowed me to compile a deep understanding of how to design across platforms (web, tablet, phone, watch, iOS, Android, emerging technologies) and mediums, with an emphasis on the financial technology (fin-tech) industry.
As an Experience Designer, I strive to make emotionally engaging experiences, with a user-centered approach, using design thinking as my primary tool. My goal is to touch people by creating interactions and flows that are naturally intuitive, solve a significant human need, and that work flawlessly. Products have many moving parts, and the experience portion of the work is arguably the most difficult. It requires a GREAT understanding of how development works and extensive knowledge of interaction models, behavioral science, and visual language constraints and patterns. Way beyond just the physical pixels (but I enjoy those too)!
In a Creative Director or Lead Product position, I play a role with each of the team members involved in the product and brand processes. All while building empathy for users and marrying what they need with what the business wants to get in return. Tying everything together and making process improvements where needed.
In both roles, I utilize my extensive training as an Innovation Catalyst, from Intuit, by coaching and facilitating individual product teams, up to c-level leaders, using "Design for Delight" techniques. A combination of design thinking and rapid/lean experimentation methods, to build and maintain a culture that fosters engagement and encourages innovation.
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A glimpse of a few iOS UI iterations I went through for the first version of our native OS authentication experiences.
Created the authentication UI's while working with 1 domain specific interaction designer and his entire team of engineers/PM's, also used the core TurboTax UX team as reference to incorporate this component/widget into all platforms.
A glimpse of a few iOS UI iterations I went through for the first version of our native OS authentication experiences.
Created the authentication UI's while working with 1 domain specific interaction designer and his entire team of engineers/PM's, also used the core TurboTax UX team as reference to incorporate this component/widget into all platforms.
A glimpse of a few iOS UI iterations I went through for the first version of our native OS authentication experiences.
Created the authentication UI's while working with 1 domain specific interaction designer and his entire team of engineers/PM's, also used the core TurboTax UX team as reference to incorporate this component/widget into all platforms.
Role: Art Direction / Branding
Team: Fully cross functional and cross business unit team, with minimal outside agency resourcing
Problem: Take a house of brands and turn them into a branded house. Making Intuit the core brand with its main cornerstones more of a family of brands that play nicely together in a ecosystem designed around simplifying the business of life.
Products: Intuit | TurboTax | QuickBooks | Mint | ProConnect
A glimpse of a side project i've been working on.
Role: Product Design / Art Direction / Branding
Dialing in the animations & transitions for the returning user experience of our identity widget that's used within Intuit's TurboTax mobile applications.
Created the authentication UI's while working with 1 domain specific interaction designer and his entire team of engineers/PM's, also used the core TurboTax UX team as reference to incorporate this component/widget into all platforms.
A glimpse of a few iOS UI iterations I went through for the first version of our native OS authentication experiences.
Created the authentication UI's while working with 1 domain specific interaction designer and his entire team of engineers/PM's, also used the core TurboTax UX team as reference to incorporate this component/widget into all platforms.
A glimpse of some of the detailed work for the TurboTax authentication experiences for 2014.
Created the UI's while working with 1 domain specific interaction designer and his entire team of engineers/PM's, also used the core TurboTax UX team as reference to incorporate this component/widget into all platforms.
Quick project to create a seamless in-app experience to gain customer insights from a suite of applications for small businesses.
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Role: Art Direction / Branding
Team: Fully cross functional and cross business unit team, with minimal outside agency resourcing
Problem: Take a house of brands and turn them into a branded house. Making Intuit the core brand with its main cornerstones more of a family of brands that play nicely together in a ecosystem designed around simplifying the business of life.
Products: Intuit | TurboTax | QuickBooks | Mint | ProConnect
A glimpse of a few iOS UI iterations I went through for the first version of our native OS authentication experiences.
Created the authentication UI's while working with 1 domain specific interaction designer and his entire team of engineers/PM's, also used the core TurboTax UX team as reference to incorporate this component/widget into all platforms.
A visual framework I created and built with 1 engineer to solve for front-end engineers and visuals designers in Intuit’s central technology group. Enabling them to build internal widgets and platforms quickly and with consistency across teams.
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High level corner shot of a sign in/up pattern & styles document I was working on to add to one of our internal style guides, Harmony... which covers the QuickBooks ecosystem.
I used existing patterns/styles to apply to our authentication widget while working with 1 domain specific interaction designer, also using the core Harmony UX team as a reference.
Created this new icon a while ago to brand the visual framework service I've been working on. Then got the itch to see it actual move and come alive... soooo, I took a quick stab at seeing what it would look like as an intro animation on the homepage.
Animation created with AE & PS.
This was part of a visual framework I created and built with 1 engineer to solve for front-end engineers and visuals designers in Intuit’s central technology group. Enabling them to build internal widgets and platforms quickly and with consistency across teams.
Role: UI / Art Direction / Branding
Problem: Creating design documentation for configurable widgets, showing every state and how every element in each state is styled / configured.
Products: TurboTax | QuickBooks | Mint | ProConnect
Worked with a team of 2 engineers to solve the problem of making a web-based question and answer community platform more customizable and useful to fit the wide user base.
Also was apart of the team that did the initial redesign for the new platform, Intuit wide.
Here is the TurboTax Community today: https://ttlc.intuit.com
A glimpse of a few iOS UI iterations I went through for the first version of our native OS authentication experiences.
Created the authentication UI's while working with 1 domain specific interaction designer and his entire team of engineers/PM's, also used the core TurboTax UX team as reference to incorporate this component/widget into all platforms.
Defined the general structure and responsiveness for email suite, while applying the "coming soon" content to present to the client.
This was part of a much larger UI revamping project I worked on for the company.
A glimpse of some of the detailed work for the TurboTax authentication experiences for 2014.
Created the UI's while working with 1 domain specific interaction designer and his entire team of engineers/PM's, also used the core TurboTax UX team as reference to incorporate this component/widget into all platforms.
Created the UX/UI and worked with 2 engineers for our internal conference website and app as a side "whitespace" project... here's the confirmation overlay UI in the registration flow once logged in.
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Took a fully functional buy/sell user-generated site, with style-guide, and made it into a completely native iOS app, in a completely different language.
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Created the UX/UI and worked with 2 engineers for our internal conference website and app as a side "whitespace" project... here's the confirmation overlay UI in the registration flow once logged in.
Click to view on Behance »
Took a fully functional buy/sell user-generated site, with style-guide, and made it into a completely native iOS app, in a completely different language.
Click to view on Dribbble »
Created the UX/UI and worked with 2 engineers for our internal conference website and app as a side "whitespace" project... here's the confirmation overlay UI in the registration flow once logged in.
Click to view on Behance »
Complete initial site design (UX/UI) for a video sharing platform, working with 1 engineer to create the sites MVP for launch.
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As the sole in-house designer, I created the first version of the entire branding, UX/UI and marketing website/collateral for NewBlue, Inc's mobile and web apps, Vibop. Working as a startup with 1 PM, 1 engineers, and a video/motion designer.
Vibop is a theme based video editing app in the Apple App Store and on YouTube Create.
As the sole in-house designer, I created the first version of the entire branding, UX/UI and marketing website/collateral for NewBlue, Inc's mobile and web apps, Vibop. Working as a startup with 1 PM, 1 engineers, and a video/motion designer.
Vibop is a theme based video editing app in the Apple App Store and on YouTube Create.
One of many home-page concepts I created as the sole in-house designer for NewBlue, Inc.
Doing both the UX/UI I built interactive roll overs that gave brief descriptions with call-to-action buttons about each entity of the business. Main Graphic also demonstrates how the businesses link together as a whole. Actual design ultimately got changed, but this was my more preferred version.
Role: UI / Art Direction / Branding
Team: Full agile development team (UI, UX, PM, Dev)
Problem: Create a widget that has configurable parameters in order to allow multiple product teams to adopt the best in class account connection search and select widgets, while still giving their individual users a seamless experience.
Products: TurboTax | QuickBooks | Mint | ProConnect
A quick initiative to create the UX/UI for a mobile component/widget that could be embed within multiple applications, could be themed to make the experience seamless, and the first adopter which needed it within weeks was the TurboTax mobile application, SnapTax.
Initially designed for W-2 import, then was expanded to support checks, receipts, and multiple other tax documents, in support of all our other small business/accountant products.
A quick initiative to create the UX/UI for a mobile component/widget that could be embed within multiple applications, could be themed to make the experience seamless, and the first adopter which needed it within weeks was the TurboTax mobile application, SnapTax.
Initially designed for W-2 import, then was expanded to support checks, receipts, and multiple other tax documents, in support of all our other small business/accountant products.
