I TELL STORIES. I SOLVE PROBLEMS. I MAKE THINGS.
By partnering closely with senior leaders across design, product, and engineering — we work together to plan strategy and build a vision.
I TELL STORIES. I SOLVE PROBLEMS. I MAKE THINGS.
By partnering closely with senior leaders across design, product, and engineering — we work together to plan strategy and build a vision.
Design & Product Industry Experience
Extensive Industry Experience: Over 20 years of dedicated work in the design and product industry, encompassing both agency and in-house roles.
Leadership in Design: More than 10 years of experience in guiding and mentoring junior colleagues in design direction.
Relationship Building Expertise: 10+ years of cultivating and maintaining relationships at an enterprise level.
Research and Insight Acumen: Proficient in conducting thorough research, synthesizing data effectively, and generating insightful user perspectives to guide strategic decisions and vision.
Versatile in Design Thinking: Adept in all phases of the design process, with the ability to seamlessly integrate into any project stage, whether it's managing, leading, or contributing hands-on.
Informed Design Decision Making: Utilizes a blend of empathy, logic, and data analysis and lots of research to make informed design decisions.
Effective Communication Skills: Possesses strong and articulate communication abilities, ensuring clarity and understanding in all interactions.
Commitment to Inclusive Design: Dedicated practitioner of inclusive, user-centric design methodologies and design thinking principles.
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Leadership, Relationship-Building & Mentorship
Relationship and Team Building: Expertise in fostering and maintaining strong connections with a diverse range of professionals including designers, product managers, engineers, researchers, and executives.
Effective Communication of Design Goals: Skilled in clearly presenting and conveying design objectives, concepts, and executions to partners and stakeholders throughout the organization.
Lean and Agile Methodologies: Experienced in employing Lean and Agile techniques, engaging in activities and managing iterative releases.
Interactive Facilitation Skills: Proficient in conducting group facilitation, workshops, and empathy exercises, enhancing team collaboration and understanding.
Visionary Product Insight: Understands the comprehensive product vision for various communities, recognizing their impact and interplay with other communities and workflows.
Design Leadership: Provides strong direction, vision, and leadership within the design organization, ensuring alignment and progress toward goals.
Insightful Contributions: Actively offers valuable insights and perspectives to the design leadership team.
Mentorship and Career Guidance: Dedicated to mentoring junior designers, focusing on their career goals and advising on opportunities for skill enhancement and professional growth.
Testimonials
“It’s been amazing to see how much you’ve accomplished and grown this year. You’ve helped ship countless small improvements and large impactful projects, relentlessly advocated for our consumers to have the best user experience, and always come to the table with informed ideas and thoughtful solutions.
You pour your heart into your work and your team, and it shows. We are all grateful to have your proactive attitude, willingness to help others, and cute doggo appearances in our work lives. Excited to see you continue to grow as a design leader on the team.”
“Stephanie approaches each project with passion and creative drive. This quality attitude proves itself on numerous projects she’s worked on.
Her strengths are her ideation and creative approach to her work and she’s always been one of the strongest designers in the department.”
“From her eagerness to seek-out teachers for new techniques and understanding, to the patience and dedication she has shown on the toughest projects, she is one of my most valued colleagues.”
“Thank you Stephanie for all your hard work, late nights and back and forth on this account. Steph has been working remote from Austin for the past several weeks, but she has continued to be an excellent communicator, collaborator, team member and kick-ass visual designer.
You have far exceeded expectations and helped transform the digital face of a Fortune 11 company!”
“You’ve done an amazing job of balancing the various teams needs, from thinking strategically to pushing both low-fi and high-fi prototypes for people, customers and team members to react to.
It’s truly been an honor to work along side of you and appreciate your willingness and easy-going approach to drive deep design expertise into our experiments”
“Steph has moved the needle/experience for the Central Technology team significantly more in half the time the previous two designers in the same position were able to do — And they were on-site!”
AFTER HOURS
The people, pets, places and things that make me smile
AFTER HOURS
The people, pets, places and things that make me smile
