UI design typically includes visual design, interface design, information architecture, and user experience thinking as well. My approach consists of many deliverables, including taskflows, visuals mockups, and lightweight click-through prototypes for user testing. Fireworks, Visio, Illustrator, SnagIt, Acrobat, and Office have been my primary tools, as I expand my repertoire to include CSS and Photoshop as well.
Types of problems
- Flow integration across diverse modules and subprocesses
- Dense dataset display on nonscrolling webpages (ADA/Section 508)
- Specialized content (eg, patient census board or admin checklists)
- Sophisticated terminology and processes: OLAP querying, general ledger/accounting systems, medical database terminology, etc.
Below are examples of these problems explored for different companies and situations.
Adobe Out of the Box Experience
Lead UI designer for the so-called "out of the box" UI for the upcoming release of Creative Suite (install, activate, uninstall), as well as an enterprise e-licensing ecosystem (backend and client-facing UI's). Collaborated with PMs, Engineering leads, and doc writers as needed.
Adobe CS Print UI
Contributed designs, as a side project for improving the print dialog UI for the upcoming release of Photoshop CS3, and future concepts for other Creative Suite products, including panels, widgets, and multipage printing. Worked directly with the PM and Engineering lead on refining the designs for ship.
BEA Weblogic Business Process Manager
Lead UI designer for flagship WebLogic Integration Business Process Manager (BPM)--based upon emerging BPEL standard--owning and driving the UI design for the next version. Collaborated with a dev manager, dev team, PM, and doc/QA leads.
Oracle Financials
Supporting designer for Oracle Financials, a central component to Oracle e-Business Suite. Worked under a UI Design Lead and with usability engineers, with guidance from product PMs.
Oracle Visual Querying UI
Proposed a UI vision from research hypothesis and data gathering, into a compelling UI design fit for productization, focused on database querying as a visually intensive activity, rather than code-base (via SQL, etc.).
