Product Designer
Prioritizes designing thoughtful interactions with testing and data.
Advocates for accessible experiences using the current guidelines.
Builds strong relationships that produce results for the business and the users.
Support in one place
Challenge
How might we increase the usage of Structured Literacy resources?
Strategy
Create an eBook with links and downloads of all the resources for the program in one place.
Results
Increased educator confidence in implementing the program with integrity and reduced lesson planning time.
Role: Product Experience Design, Production
Team: 2 PXDs, 1 Engineer, 2 LXDs (Learning Experience Designer)
Time: 2023–2025
Module Overview chart with direct links. Table of Contents accesses the rest of the ebook.
Markup in Figma for engineer
Style guide pages in Figma
Digital vocabulary practice
Challenge
Create a gamified experience for students to learn and practice vocabulary.
Strategy
Work within existing interaction patterns framework.
Results
Delivered three grade ranges, each grade containing 150 lessons and each lesson containing 3–4 pages of interactions.
Role: Product Experience Design, Production
Team: 4 PXDs, 5 LXDs (Learning Experience Designer), 1 PM, Engineering vendor
Time: 6 months to ship; 2019–2020
Presenting to the whole class
Challenge
Whole-class portions of lessons are anchored with a presentation or interaction activity. How could we deliver useful content in our program so users didn’t have to create their own?
Strategy
Deliver presentations in file formats that teachers have access to and are familiar with. Use accessibility guidelines to ensure everyone can experience the lesson. Consider the age of the audience when using artwork and activity types.
Results
Two styles of presentations for different lesson needs: PDF text-only for a broad range of projector capabilities and Powerpoint files with drag-and-drop, fill in the blank, and progressive reveal interactions.
Role: Product Design, Production Design
Time: 2017–2025
Power point files with progressive pages that add on to the pronunciation exercise.
An empathy exercise, teacher types in student suggestions.
A slide with moveable letters for the class to build words together.
A drag and drop activity to identify emotions.
Streamlined lesson planning
Challenge
Three separate teacher guides and a confusing network of resources. Users needed a more clear path for implementation.
Strategy
Combine the teacher guides into one book and update the hierarchy of information. Create an Implementation Guide that walks teachers through the stages of complexity in the program.
Results
Early feedback from the sales field revealed an increase in comprehension and ease of use.
Role: Product Experience Design, Production
Team: 3 PXDs, 5 LXDs (Learning Experience Designer), 1 PM, 1 PO
Time: 2024–2025
Ask me what didn’t get made
Challenge
How might we teach Reading at the same time as other subjects, such as Social Studies, Science, and Arts and Culture to optimize the classroom agenda?
Strategy
Interview Elementary School teachers and synthesize the information to parse their pain points. Identify parts of their lesson in which to insert cross-curricular content. Engage the students to keep their interest in the topic, which would hypothetically improve learning outcomes.
Results
Strong positive reactions from educators to prototypes in testing. The project was unfortunately cancelled due to lack of engineering support and prioritizing improving existing offerings. However this was a huge leap forward in team confidence in digital production and design thinking practices. Lessons learned in this process were carried forward into new projects.
Role: Product Design
Time: 2017–2019
Scrollable and Clickable Prototype
User Flows
“Do I own this already?”
Challenge
Embroiderers lose track of what thread colors they own, resulting in an overwhelming collection of unused materials and unnecessary trips to stores or online purchases.
Strategy
My collaborator and I wanted to test our skills during our pandemic down time. I conducted user interviews and familiarized myself with Figma. We addressed the biggest pain point for users by utilizing a barcode scanning feature to quickly add newly purchased thread.
Results
A speculative app that lists all DMC and Anchor brand colors. Easy to find colors add to/subtract from your list, and a quick-add scanner feature for bulk purchases of thread skeins. MVP included a 3D touch context menu, filter, search, light/dark mode, and iOS release.
Remember to take your medication!
Challenge
Increase medication compliance for short and long-term prescriptions. Learn about the UX Design process.
Strategy
Own the entire project from user interviews to clickable prototype.
Results
Earned a UX Design Certificate from General Assembly. Received valuable feedback on how to improve the product and my process.
Accessible Reading Instruction
Challenge
How might we bring an existing digital program up to current digital accessibility standards?
Strategy
Audit all pages and interactions. Identify improvements through a UX and accessibility audit. One or two UI passes, as needed, with a final UX pass and a Learning Designer pass. Create review videos to hand off documentation to engineering.
Role: UI/UX Designer
Team: 5 UI/UX Designers
Time: 2026
Graphic Design
Marketing: print and digital
Presentations
K–12 curriculum: print and digital
Volunteer work
