Lead creative strategy and usability design verticals. Staff visual design, UX, and UI positions. Create a design architecture and style guide that translates across a suite of web and mobile applications.
Creating four separate web tools isn’t easy, especially when the main stakeholders and users of the applications are unreachable through direct means. Efficient time allocation of your intermediaries and posing clear and concise questions is a must. Of the most importance is getting down to the core business problems, then understand how users are fulfilling those needs now. The best solutions lay buried somewhere in the middle, waiting to be uncovered through through iterative design and user testing.
Defining an initial framework helped the team understand that many of the designs could be reused and leveraged across different tool-sets. I lead design for module and modal attributes, typeface standards, and global navigation, this was critical to ensure a structured foundation.
Designing and executing the deployment for these web apps was hugely satisfying. Two of the applications help Siemens plan and manage executive's report-to structure and team hierarchy. The other two apps allow admins and senior level managers to edit, review, and plan monetary compensation packages for employees around the globe.
