Jordan Douglas
A passionate and innovative User UX/UI and Visual Designer with a talent for creating intuitive and engaging digital experiences. Skilled in all areas, including Figma, prototyping, discovery, product design, design systems, branding, JavaScript, HTML, and providing complete end-to-end design solutions.
Expertise
UX
- User Interviews
- Prototyping
- A/B Testing
- Journey Mapping
- Card Sorting
- Continuous Discovery
- Qualitative and Quantitative
Figma
- Atomic Design
- Design Systems
- Variants
- Prototyping
- Responsive layouts
Accessibility
- WCAG Compliance
- Using Aria
- Section 508
- Testing with Jaws
Experience
Director of UI/UX for Academic Services
2022 - 2024
- Led a team of 11 UX and Content designers across 10 product teams, overseeing the hiring process, managing performance evaluations, and fostering professional growth through effective coaching and mentorship.
- Established and maintained consistent UI designs across multiple product teams, ensuring a unified and cohesive user experience throughout the organization.
- Implemented direct report coaching using Betterworks, resulting in enhanced performance and skill development among team members.
- Developed customized learning paths for design leads, facilitating their professional development and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
- Evaluated and integrated AI tools to optimize workflow efficiency, streamlining design processes and enhancing productivity.
- Mentored junior designers in Figma and discovery methods, imparting essential skills and knowledge to enhance their proficiency and effectiveness in design processes.
- Spearheaded the implementation of a Figma MUI (Material-UI) design system workflow for front-end developers, improving collaboration and efficiency in the design-to-development pipeline.
- Made significant contributions to the development and maintenance of the Design System, Style Guide, and Pattern Library, ensuring consistency and scalability across all product offerings.
Director of UX & Visual Design
2022
Led the UX and visual design team, established new processes and standards
- Established a comprehensive design system to ensure company-wide consistency in design, incorporating best practices and standards across all digital products and platforms.
- Implemented a regular cadence of usability testing sessions, gathering valuable user feedback and insights to inform iterative design improvements and enhance the overall user experience.
- Developed and maintained a backlog of design patterns, enabling efficient reuse of proven solutions and streamlining the design process for future projects.
- Created a centralized Confluence site to document voice and tone guidelines, as well as written branding guidelines, ensuring consistency in communication and messaging across all touchpoints and channels.
- Regularly reviewed and updated the design system, usability testing protocols, and documentation to adapt to evolving business needs and industry trends, ensuring ongoing relevance and effectiveness.
Senior UX/UI Designer + Design System
2021 - 2022
- Pioneered a robust Design System, Style Guide and Pattern Library.
- Built Figma components with variations based on Material UI.
- Participated in usability research and synthesis.
- Designed UI for MyPolicy product including payment flows, Wallet, and Document Library.
- Created icons, illustrations, and media.
Director of UX & Visual Design
2019 - 2021
User Experience, Visual Design, Branding, Analytics, Accessibility
- Established a comprehensive brand and design system to ensure company-wide consistency, incorporating best practices and standards across all digital products and platforms.
- Establish visual design language, patterns and define styles
- Improve user experience with quantitative and qualitative user testing
- Analyze data from Heap, mouseflow, Google and Hotjar
- Established personas, patterns, wireframes, journey maps and conduct ab testing
- Build a style guide and front-end pattern library
- Brand partner sites for consistent user experience across applications
- Journey Maps for online account opening
- Evaluate 3rd party applications for effective and improved user experience
- Make SEO improvements and recommendations
- Agile environment with daily standups and rapid deployments
- Work with developers on entirely new react architecture making WaFd the fastest financial services Website
- Introduce customer centric and friendly language to the site
- Mobile first design recommendations and improvements happening iteratively
Principal UX/UI Designer, Front-End Developer
2008 - 2017
UX, Visual Design, Code Responsive Templates, Technical Illustration
- Combined multiple sites and libraries to use one consistent visual style and created docs.oracle.com umbrella
- Collaborate on the Alta UI design system
- Built a complete internal project/media tracking system with a searchable image library in PHP resulting in 100% on-time delivery of technical illustrations
- Designed and hand-coded HTML5/CSS3 responsive Web templates for docs.oracle.com, Cloud, Java and Fusion Middleware
- Designed and developed templating systems giving unique branding and consistent architecture
- Coded functional menus, embedded video, and remote content using jQuery and JavaScript
- Test and develop to strict accessibility standards
- Created 1000+ technical illustrations for documentation
Senior Designer & Team Lead
2001-2008
Course Design, Course Player Developer, Accessibility Testing, Interactive Design
- Team lead for a group of ten or more interactive/instructional media designers and Web developers
- Designed and developed the first ever Coast Guard-wide online course
- Created equipment training courses, simulations and instructional process improvement for the U.S. Coast Guard
- Programmed web applications using ASP-SQL, CSS, Action Script 2.0 and JavaScript
- Developed fully functional equipment simulations for training courses in Flash
- Position Recognitions: Civilian of the Quarter - 2nd quarter 2003; Two Commandant Meritorious Team Awards; Core Value Award; Annual Performance Award
Moonshine Productions
Design Firm Owner
2000-2001
- Created site and email designs for Union Bank of CA, Extenta Wireless, Global Med Connect, and Esprit de Corp.
- Hired to build Global Medical , a B2B E-Commerce site for medical manufacturers and distributors to collaborate
- About.com featured site 2000
Creative Director & Engineering Team Lead for E-Commerce
1999-2000
- Established corporate identity and branding
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- Managed over twenty employees in SelfCare.com’s Creative and Engineering departments
- Evolved the site through several redesigns and user focused improvements
- Played a key role in establishing partnerships with NBCI, Women.com, Ivillage, AOL, Value Vision and 3rd Age
Received the companies first ever MVP award, for work on online advertising
- Pioneered new and innovative user interface solutions designed to enable users to easily access 16,000 products and related content
- Consistently met deadlines of fast paced development schedules
- Saved SelfCare.com over $40,000 by bringing product image processing in-house
- SelfCare.com received more than 600,000 visitor sessions and more than 40 million hits a month
- Successful hits for a 1 week period increased from 2,171,865 (05/99) to 9,838,053 (05/00)
- Jan 1, 2001: Gomez.com ranks SelfCare.com #1 in Customer Confidence
- Nielsen//NetRatings listed SelfCare.com in the top 15 brands that lead to assured action (6-2000)
eCommerce UX/UI Designer
1999
- Designed user experience and branding for E-Commerce sites
- Worked with MML’s largest corporate clients to ensure a high degree of satisfaction
Art Direction, Illustration, Animation
1996 - 1999
- Designed and animated award-winning interactive English language learning courses
- Worked with a broad range of art styles designed specifically for each product demographic
- Designed and produced packaging and print marketing
- Hired, trained and managed employees for art department
- Designed lead characters, games and created animations
- Designed a unique brand for each CD and developed style guidelines
- Visit DynEd.com for a list of awards
Education
Interaction Design Foundation
- Certificate: Design Systems: How to Craft Successful Components
- AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career
- How to Design Engaging Products
- Design for the 21st Century with Don Norman
- Mobile UX Design
- UI Design Patterns for Successful Software
LinkedIn
- A Design Thinking Approach to Putting the Customer First
- UX Research Methods: Interviewing
- Layout and Composition
- Logotype Design
- Design Techniques
- Principal for UX Design
- Managing Generation Z
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
- Sharing Your Best Self at Work
- Communicating with Emotional Intelligence
Art and Visual Design
- Santa Rosa Junior College
- Skyline Community College
- Canada College
- College of San Mateo
- Foothill Community
- UC Santa Cruz