Design Process


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01 Design Values: these principles guide how I work, whether I'm shaping a roadmap, running research or debugging a build, so the products I ship meet both user and business needs.

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Build Empathy

I start with how people actually work. Moving from front-end engineering into UX, I dug into user workflows and personas, and today I turn 900+ recorded sales calls and live user sessions into product decisions.

2

Encourage Innovation

I get hands-on to prove ideas fast. An AI-assisted rebuild of a legacy web app compressed a multi-month effort into days, and an internal AI system took go-to-market assets from a multi-day cycle to same day.

3

Welcome Inclusivity

Accessibility is part of the spec, not a final check: contrast measured against WCAG, meaning never carried by color alone, and touch targets sized for real hands and real situations.

4

Improve Continuously

Measuring what ships matters as much as the initial work leading up to launches. Adoption and engagement analytics, A/B tests and user follow-up shape the next iteration, and every design change traces back to a finding.


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02 Design Process: a repeatable loop from research to results, scaled to the size of the problem. Each step lists the methods and tools I lean on most.

Define and Research

I frame the problem with customer evidence before opening Figma, synthesizing sales calls, interviews and competitor reviews into a clear problem and a roadmap priority.

User ResearchProduct DiscoveryCompetitive AnalysisData/Vendor Evaluations

Brainstorm Ideas

I map the experience end to end, then sketch wide and keep only what solves a real pain point.

User Journeys / User StoriesRoadmapping

Design Concepts

Wireframes and prototypes created with AI assistance for the primary flow, reviewed early with users and engineers.

Wireframing / PrototypingFigmaAccessibility

Refine Designs

Usability rounds change the design. A reusable design system keeps each refinement consistent across Product, Sales and Marketing.

Design SystemUsability TestingAccessibility

Handover to Wizards

PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria, plus documentation and working prototypes that guide engineering handoff. When it helps, I dig into the build myself: front end, schema, and data queries.

Product Requirement DocumentsJIRA Project ManagementFrontend (HTML/JS/Angular)Database

Evaluate Results

I define success metrics up front and check adoption after launch. A self-serve upload feature cut related support requests 85% over six months; a data cleanup feature held a 79% continuation rate over 90 days.

A/B TestingAnalyticsRoadmapping

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03 Toolkit: what I work with day to day, from design to data to code.

Product & design

FigmaAdobe Creative SuiteJIRA / AgileClaude & ChatGPTAI tool architecture & prompt designWorkflow automation

Build & data

HTML/CSSJavaScriptAngularBackbone.jsNode.jsPythonSQL & NoSQLMongoDBGitSelenium WebDriver

Certifications

Product-led Certification, Pendo.io (2022)Google UX Design Certificate, Coursera (2020)