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About Kelly

"Advocating for and finding inspiration in the people I serve."

Graduate of Northwestern's UX/UI Bootcamp, having learned and practiced agile methodologies, design process, and presentation in addition to the skills listed below. Taking years of experience and soft skills from the education field and applying them to the field of UX design.

Skills

At the heart of my skill set is my drive to do the hard work of thinking, listening, doing, and communicating in order to accomplish any task. 

Research, Ideation & Testing

User Interviews

Surveys

Affinity Maps

User Personas

User Flows

Storyboards

Heuristic Evaluations

Designing Solutions

Wireframing

Prototyping

Journey Maps

Information Architecture

Mood Boards

Style Guides

Responsive Web Design

Usabilty Testing

Competitor Analysis

Empathy Maps

UX Tools 

Figma

Miro

InVision

Coding Conversational

HTML

CSS

Javascript

jQuery

Bootstrap

GitHub

Visual Studio Code

Fun Facts

Grew up in Southern California, graduating from California State University, Long Beach

Currently living in Des Moines, Iowa

Intermediately fluent in Spanish and expertly fluent in English

Hobbies include baking, cooking, blogging, quilting, creating TikTok content, podcast listening, and gardening (reluctantly)

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