I am a self-taught developer who loves learning and is looking to take the next step in my development career. I was a UI/UX designer first, but I wanted to move past prototyping and start building.

I love working with React, Gatsby, Sanity.io and good old JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. I’m looking for a role where I can collaborate closely on a team and where I can continue to learn every day.

I bring a human-centered design approach to all my work. Whether I’m designing a UI, writing a help guide, or re-organizing a website, I try to understand the users and their goals, develop and iterate possible solutions, and evaluate the solution I’ve implemented.

Some of the methods I've used to understand users and evaluate solutions include ...

• Contextual interviewing & usability testing
• Card sorting & tree testing studies
• Task and user analysis to develop journey maps and design personas
• Surveys & focus groups

When I'm designing prototypes and mock ups, I like to use ...

• Figma
• Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
• Pencil and paper

As a technical writer and user content designer, it’s my job to simplify complex concepts and processes.

I’ve written tutorials, how-to guides, and reference documentation and created videos and documentation websites. My favorite part of working in technical communication is acting as an advocate for the customer by pushing for cleaner, more intuitive software that calls for less external documentation.

I treat technical communication and instructional design just like my other work. I start by understanding users and their goals then figure out the best way to help them solve their problems. Sometimes that is a short reference document or explanatory illustration or video clip, and sometimes it means petitioning for a fix in the product.