I’m Stacie — a UX/product designer & researcher
I solve complex product and usability problems by understanding a problem space, testing hypothesis and iterating on solutions. I include product users and collaborate cross-functionally through every step of the process, delivering better outcomes for users and business. Is that tricky at times? Yes. Is it worth it? Absolutely.
Brands I've worked with
UX Design and Research Work
Product Design: Actionaly
Improving family engagement for better student outcomes
Designing a new dashboard for school administrators, allowing for easy and intuitive monitoring family and school engagement – a key metric used in determining student success.
Lead UX Designer
UX Research: Platform development
Contextualizing and centralizing domain-specific content for better decisions
Understanding the information product analysts need in the ‘gather’ phase of product development, and the pain points of the process, so we can provide a way to improve that process.
Senior UX Research
Environmental Design
Workshops + team facilitation
In-person and virtual workshop facilitation
A great workshop facilitator encourages collaboration, aligns teams, helps clarify priorities, and crystalizes ideas. I am that facilitator.
In-person + Virtual
Event Storming workshops
Goal: Identify key events, actors, and timelines for 0 to 1 product development.
Using this flexible framework to reach product and stakeholder goals, the result provided the team with a solid and shared knowledge of what was needed from staffing and technology, when each player was playing a primary or supportive role, timelines, and areas where cross-team alignment and collaboration were vital to success.
Case study coming soon
In-person + Virtual
Product Ideation workshops
Goal: generate, gather, and prioritize ideas for a shared vision of a new product.
This workshop provided a dynamic space to come up with additional functionality and features for a new product hypothesis, with input from engineering, subject matter experts, product, and user experience. The result: a collection of ideas that were stack-ranked, vetted, and shared across the company for inclusion in design testing.
Case study coming soon
Virtual
Design Sprints
Goal: improve product functionality and deliver a viable, tested solution in 5 days.
Using the Google Ventures framework, these workshops reduce risk by designing, prototyping, and testing solutions on users in an intensive 5-day workshop. Having both moderated and participated in design sprints, I’ve learned it’s key to stay focused on a known, well-defined problem, with an eye on eliminating scope creep, for the best results.
Case study coming soon
