UX/UI Design

Designing for Impact

Recent Projects

By developing user personas and stories that capture the characteristics and preferences of the target audience, I use insights to inform my design decisions.

Creating a successful mobile ordering app requires identifying the key challenges and pain points faced by users. By developing a clear problem statement, I am able to design an app that addresses these issues and offers a seamless journey.


I developed a journey map that outlines the user's experience from start to finish. By identifying pain points and opportunities, I'm building an app that offers an intuitive process.

By identifying gaps in the market and areas for improvement, I'm building an app that offers a unique and differentiated experience for customers of an upscale food truck. This competitive audit informs my design decisions and ensures that my app provides added value to users.

Recent Projects

By developing user personas and stories that capture the characteristics and preferences of the target audience, I use insights to inform my design decisions.

Creating a successful mobile ordering app requires identifying the key challenges and pain points faced by users. By developing a clear problem statement, I am able to design an app that addresses these issues and offers a seamless journey.


Cards Against Humanity Portfolio

My Cards Against Humanity portfolio not only highlights my design and development expertise, but also stays true to the brand's irreverent spirit. 

I developed a journey map that outlines the user's experience from start to finish. By identifying pain points and opportunities, I'm building an app that offers an intuitive process.

By identifying gaps in the market and areas for improvement, I'm building an app that offers a unique and differentiated experience for customers of an upscale food truck. This competitive audit informs my design decisions and ensures that my app provides added value to users.

Mastering UX Design

Course 1 -

Foundations of User Experience Design

   - Define the field of UX and explain why it’s important for consumers and businesses.

   - Understand foundational concepts in UX design, such as user-centered design, the design process, accessibility, and equity-focused design.

   - Identify the factors that contribute to great user experience design.

   - Review common job responsibilities of entry-level UX designers and teams that they work with.

   - Explore job opportunities and career paths within the field of user experience. 

   - Explain why design sprints are an important and useful part of a UX designer’s work.

  - Describe common UX research methods.

  - Identify and account for biases in UX research.

Course 2 -

Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, & Ideate

  - Empathize with users to understand their needs and pain points.

   - Create empathy maps, user personas, user stories, and user journey maps to understand user needs.

   - Develop problem statements to define user needs.

   - Generate ideas for possible solutions to user problems.

   - Conduct competitive audits.

   - Start designing a mobile app, a new project to include in your professional UX portfolio.

Course 3 -

Build Wireframes & Low-Fidelity Prototypes

   - Develop a goal statement.

   - Create two types of storyboards: big picture and close-up.

   - Understand the difference between low-fidelity and high-fidelity design.

   - Apply the basics of drawing.

   - Apply the principles of information architecture to organize a mobile app.

   - Create paper wireframes for a mobile app design.

   - Develop digital wireframes in the design tool Figma.

   - Build a paper prototype to add interactivity to designs.

   - Design a low-fidelity prototype in Figma.

   - Recognize implicit bias and deceptive patterns in design.

   - Continue to design a mobile app to include in your professional portfolio.

Course 4 -

Conduct UX Research & Test Early Concepts

   - Plan a UX research study, including the project background, research goals, research questions, Key Performance Indicators, methodology, participants, and script.

   - Explain the importance of respecting privacy and user data.

   - Conduct a moderated and unmoderated usability study.

   - Take notes during a usability study.

   - Create affinity diagrams to group and analyze data.

   - Synthesize observations from research and come up with insights.

   - Develop persuasive presentation skills to share research insights.

   - Modify low-fidelity designs based on research insights.

   - Continue to design a mobile app to include in your professional portfolio.

Course 5 -

Create High - Fidelity Designs & Prototypes in Figma

   - Build mockups and high-fidelity prototypes in Figma.

   - Define and apply common visual design elements and principles.

   - Demonstrate how design systems can be used to organize, standardize, and enhance designs.

   - Understand the role of design critique sessions and feedback while iterating on designs.

   - Learn how to hand off finished design projects to engineering teams.

   - Complete mobile app designs to include in a professional UX portfolio.

Course 6 -

Responsive Web Design in Adobe XD

   - Apply each step of the UX design process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test) to create a responsive website.

   - Develop designs in a popular design tool, Adobe XD.

   - Plan information architecture and create sitemaps for website designs.

   - Apply common layouts for web pages.

   - Plan and conduct a usability study to gather feedback about designs.

   - Iterate on designs based on research insights.

   - Work with design systems in Adobe XD.

   - Add a new design project to your professional UX portfolio.

   - [Optional] Create or update a UX-focused resume.

   - [Optional] Learn how to search for and apply to introductory-level jobs in the field of UX.

Course 7 -

Design a User Experience for Social Good & Prepare for Jobs

 - Apply each step of the UX design process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test) to create designs focused on social good.

   - Identify the differences between dedicated mobile apps and responsive web apps.

   - Understand progressive enhancement and graceful degradation approaches for designing across devices.

   - Build wireframes, mockups, and low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes in Figma or Adobe XD.

   - Add a new design project to your professional UX portfolio.

   - Create your portfolio of design work for job applications.

   - Join and participate in online UX communities.

   - Interview for an entry-level UX design job.

   - Determine if freelance design work is a good career fit for you.