About Me
Hello! I am a Principal Product Designer at Esri. I work on ArcGIS Hub, a content-management-system designed to connect organizations with their communities to make better informed data-driven decisions. I specialize in complex authoring tools that transform content-heavy systems into attractive, informational web applications targeted at a non-technical audience.
Experience
I believe in user-centered design and have years of experience with agile on both stream and cross-functional scrum teams collaborating with product managers and developers to take problems from ideation through execution. My day-to-day activities include research, wireframing, prototyping in Figma, usability testing, and quality assurance testing. In addition, I also help manage theme variables and contribute HTML/CSS when needed to provide direction on using our design system components.
Personally being very passionate about web accessibility, I’ve trained designers and developers in my own team and across the company on how to optimize applications for assistive technologies. As my team is one of the few in the company that releases weekly, I also manage our product’s accessibility conformance reports.
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Next Chapter
As I look towards the future of my career, I would love to continue working on UX design, accessibility, and AI within web applications, content management systems, canvas based applications, authoring tools, or layout systems.
Free Time
When I’m not working, I enjoy hiking with my dog, writing urban fantasy, and doing a little bit of container gardening (mostly raspberries and herbs.) In spring 2024, I had a family of red foxes living under my deck and it was delightful. I got two trail cameras to track their activities and when I see the youngsters running around the neighborhood, I still think of them as “my fox kids.”
Writing & Presentations
Season 1 | Episode 10: The One About Accessibility (Esri Canada Podcast, Guest Speaker)
ArcGIS Hub and Enterprise Sites: Designing for Accessibility (Blog Post, Primary Author)
No Limits: Making Your Web Apps Accessible to Everyone (Webinar, Co-Presenter)
Lunch and Learn: Making Your Maps Accessible to Everyone (Lunch and Learn, Guest Presenter)
Maps & Charts: Making Visual Interfaces Accessible (Conference Presentation)
Building Accessible Apps (Conference Presentation)
Esri Communities (Technical Support)