A BETTER USER EXPERIENCE
Design that focuses on the user in effort to create an experience that is efficient, creating better returns for your organization.
About Jared
Jared enjoys creating user centered designs that not only function optimally for the user, but also look beautiful. As a professional designer, he is a proactive problem solver and considers design from a multitude of perspectives. His design experience is varied including product, user experience, user interface, visual, interactive, motion, information architecture, research.
The Process
My process is very iterative and has evolved from my experience across multiple disciplines. What has emerged is a synergy between UX Design, Agile development principles, and the Lean Startup methodologies.

Discovery
This is where the designer gets down into the weeds of the project and where a lot of user and competitor research activities happens.

Design & Development
The Design phase is where the high fidelity design is fleshed out, and usually one design is chosen.

Iteration
Iterations may cycle back through the design process to create new versions with new features.


Ideation
This is where the designer takes all the information learned in the discovery phase and organizes it.

Validation
After feedback is received from the audience and stakeholders, it may be necessary to revisit some of the research undertaken, get additional …
The Work
My portfolio is a collection of projects from my eight years of experience. All projects implement user centered methods and include varying types of design including product, user experience, user interface, visual, interactive, motion, information architecture, research.
User-Centered Methods
My experience over the years has been diverse, leading me to have a large skill set that include:
- Contextual inquiry and design
- Competitive research and analysis
- Heuristic evaluation
- Think abounds
- Brainstorming
- Sketches
- Persona development
- Storyboards
- Card sorting
- Task flows
- Empathy map
- Journey map
- Affinity diagramming
- Information architecture
- Both high/low fidelity wireframes
- Paper and interactive prototypes
- Style guides
- Web analytics and metrics
- A/B testing
- And much more!