UX Designer
Essential techniques for creating accessible, scannable, and concise web content. Site maintainers learn to improve content clarity by using proper heading structures, which enhances user experience and ensures web accessibility.
This training focuses on optimizing image file sizes to improve page load times. Staff learn to select and save images appropriately, ensuring fast-loading pages without compromising quality—essential for maintaining optimal website performance.
Filling in for an instructor on sabbatical and without provided course material, I created content for this course by drawing on my own experience and utilizing resources such as LinkedIn Learning, nngroup.com, and Google’s UX certification course.
The final project, which I titled Prototype + Usability Test, utilized lessons and tools from earlier in the course, resulting in the following deliverables:
To provide students with a successful example, I created documentation and a Figma prototype for a mock comic book website. The concept was inspired by conversations with a coworker about his comic book collecting hobby.
In 2019, I co-led a workshop at Chico State and presented The Purpose-Driven, User-Centered Mindset, focusing on the principles of user experience design.
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