Ui Designer Design System
Resume:
EXPERIENCE
Morgan Stanley, New York, NY */**** –*/2024
Lead UX/UI Designer, Design System Creator - Contract Led the design of feature enhancements for the Goals Planning System as part of Wealth Management.
• Introduced component libraries and converted legacy designs to the design system.
• Upskilled the design team in the use of Figma.
Technologies: Figma, JIRA, VDI
JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY 12/2021 – 9/2023
VP Lead UX/UI Designer
Supported the full design life cycle in Offers and Shopping - Ad Tech and Insights.
•Reduced ambiguity and provided structure by collaborating with product leads to create service design maps.
•Worked with a team of designers to explore navigation structure opportunities, integrated research, channels, and the design system. To improve the process of execution, created a library of subcomponents in Figma, facilitated workshops to share best practices and introduced design retrospectives.
•Led Lending Innovation team to design a reusable toolkit process for future pitches of Card Installments (75%-time reduction).
Technologies: Figma, Monday.com, JIRA, Confluence
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY 12/2019 – 5/2021
Global Investment Research, VP Interaction Design
Led interactive and print visualizations for Global Investment Research reports. This work required collaboration across organization, including multiple stakeholders: Financial Analysts, Equity and Macro Economists, Software Developers, Managing Directors, and Creative Directors.
•Directed projects from idea stage through publication, this involved scoping work, sketching ideas, prototyping, developing the final product, and publishing.
•Spearheaded efforts to improve the quality and consistency by creating icon libraries, standardizing map projections, and improving team communication through better documentation, tutorials, and demonstrations and implementing a critique structure.
Technologies: SVG, XML, CSS, Javascript, Figma, Sketch, Confluence, Illustrator
Cisco, San Francisco, CA 4/2019 – 12/2019
Lead UX/UI Designer
Worked on the User Experience for the Cisco Managed Services Accelerator (MSX) to design an interface for the multi-tenant, multi-service, cloud-native, service creation, and delivery platform. Moved to the marketing team to contribute to the UX for the main Cisco site.
Technologies: Miro, Sketch
Workday Analytics, San Francisco, CA 4/2018 – 2/2019 Lead UX/UI Designer
In the Analytic Applications product, drove UX starting with information architecture, storyboards, and design system components.
•Performed resesarch, analysis, and design of fill patterns for the visualization library used for chart accessibility in the Workday UI.
Technologies: Sketch, Figma, Zeplin, Notion, Confluence Office of Kinetictype, San Francisco, CA 12/2006 – 3/2018 Boutique consultancy focused on interaction design, infographics, and illustration across the development life cycle. Principal UX/UI Designer
Led all aspects of the business, from customer acquisition to scoping, managing, and implementing projects.
•Gathered and facilitated content–simplifying complex technical topics to essence. The majority of the work focused on UI/UX design, Infographics, and Documentation.
Technologies: Illustrator, Sketch, Raw.io, Tableau Select Clients: UserTesting.com, Fitbit, Tivo, Flip Video, Google, Wieden+Kennedy, Intel, McSweenys, Valimail, Charles Schwab. UI/UX Design
Performed full-scope UI/UX analysis, starting with an audit of current information architecture, gathering re- quirements, conducting user research, and performing stakeholder analysis to synthesize into new workflows and designs. All key user interaction patterns were optimized for both mobile and desktop experience.
•To assist with implementation, introduced teams to techniques, including service design and responsive design, created pattern libraries, and worked with product managers and designers to create a critique process to develop best practices.
Infographics
Engaged with a diverse set of stakeholders to understand the problem space and the goals of the piece.
•Facilitated discussions and conducted research to distill vague and complex ideas into essential components, so that they could be presented in a simple, logical, and coherent manner.
•Created custom icons, logos, and hand-drawn illustrations for the final design to help visually communicate stories to match brand aesthetics.
Documentation
Collaborated across design, product management, and engineering to document complex data flows, user interac- tions, and core domain-specific concepts.
•Led focused discussions and rapidly iterated on designs to create lasting artifacts, primarily diagrams and design libraries, that helped eliminate ambiguity and provided clarity to staff across the organization. ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
The Chicago Tribune, Chicago, IL 11/2004 – 12/2006 Visual Journalist
Illustrated and designed 3-4 maps, diagrams, and charts on a daily basis in both print and digital media. This involved custom illustrations and rapid execution. Created interactive visualizations that were among some of the first on the web.
KIERA WESTPHAL
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PRODUCT DESIGN LEAD
A product designer with a background in visual storytelling and expertise in design system creation. Successful at incorporating infographic and illustration capabilities to improve user experience design and documentation while advocating for the user. Highly collaborative and adaptive to team processes with developers and fellow designers.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Design Systems User-Centered Design User Research Team Leadership Project Management Process Improvement Workshop Facilitation Stakeholder Relations
Graphic Facilitation Information Architecture Prototyping Visual Design Storyboarding Visual Storytelling
EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University, Minor, Fine Arts
Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA), Communication Design, HCI
INTERESTS
Swing Dance Bicycle Touring Open-water Swimming Ukulele Sketching
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