About Me

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I am a Sr UX manager and lead designer from the Bay Area, California, a native who graduated from UCSB. Having designed large scale applications for responsive desktop, I am efficient, proactive, and know how to scale a product. I practice design thinking. In my spare time, I cook, exercise and am into art, psychology, science, film and sports.

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User Experience Research
Numerous projects and excellent results
Administration
Entire sign on flow, lost passwords, password creation etc.
Consumer Site
Kaiser site for human services
Consumer Responsive
Blue Cross online directory for finding MD's and facilities
Mobile Consumer
Designed the android and iphone flows
Online Application
Retrospective Risk Adjustment tool for auditing

Services

Road Maps & Requirements

  • From road maps I aided project managers and CEO's by writing acceptance criteria based on valid use cases
  • Used Jira and Confluence, and in the past Pivotal to write workflow documentation of interactive steps. (Gherkins)

User Experience Research

  • User Interviews and contextual inquiries
  • Competitive analysis - analysis of similar applications
  • User testing with workflows from prototypes I develop using Sketch and Invision

Workflows & Design Patterns

  • Built out Design Pattern libraries, designs systems, on my own and with teams
  • Workflow excellence. My strong suit is designing a new elegant workflow
  • Sound foundational approach for scaling an application

Visual & User Interface Design

  • Delivering hi-fi specs, icons etc. Responsive app deliverables. Font (Awesome) icons
  • Excellent at skinning frameworks in css and html (like bootstrap)
  • Tools include Sketch, Adobe Suite, Invision, Font-awesome, Bootstrap and many others

Let's Get In Touch!

Ready to start your next project with me? Are you looking to hire a Senior Product Designer? That's great! Send me an email and I will get back to you as soon as possible!

Phil Young - Linkedin profile

phil@pydesigns.com