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Education
Masters of HCI from Carnegie Mellon Hybrid program of Design, Psychology, and Computer Science Masters Project – Digital photo album hosted on Tablet PC
Utilized handheld form-factor with stylus input Automated loading and sorting of photos for ease of use Optimized tasks for labeling, recall, and display Included controls for rotation, cropping, and brightness control Conducted user testing with over 100 people from around the world – with zero
budget
Independent Study Project Presented paper at CHI Comparison of Cognitive Models (GOMS and KLM)
Link to abstract Each type of cognitive model predicts different total time for the same task – why
do they not match and how is this useful? Analyzed motor and mental processes for task repeated 1000 times
using keyboard and mouse for data input KLM models serial processing and predicts novice use/start of the learning curve GOMS models parallel processing and predicts expert use/plateau of learning
curve
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Experience
UX Designer for All Star Directories Redesigned content, list, and form pages for lead generation sites Refactored pages for mobile, ran usability tests on new designs Attended Conversion Conference, with emphasis on Persuasive Design
Sr. Product Designer/UX Designer for Microsoft (Robotics Group) Designing and wireframing features across Voice UX, Gesture and Natural UX,
and Graphical UX Designed and ran user research on Voice UX Created journey and touchpoint diagrams of the customer experience for the
box, the store, set up, and first use UX Designer for Vertafore
Defining the UX for V1 web-app for user profile and license management Prototyping and wireframing in iPlotz and creating mockups in Photoshop
UI Designer for Verdiem Brought in at Sprint 7 of 10 to design Surveyor Admin Console G2, a Flex web
app for enterprise power management Wireframed in Visio, animated them in PowerPoint for reviews and user testing
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Sr. UX Designer - UX Engineering Manager for Isilon Systems Managed UI team for admin console of a storage appliance Designed major features for several releases Initiated repeatable design process for new features
UI PM for Microsoft Security products Forefront Client Security v2, codename “Stirling” Forefront Client Security Windows Firewall Control Panel Behavior Blocking, codename “Mako” (not released)
UI Designer for Lotus Notes client New features for Mail, To Do, Calendar
UI Designer for Syteline ERP software Initiated role and design processes
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Portfolio of Design
All Star Directories Microsoft Robotics Group Vertafore Verdiem Isilon Microsoft Security Group Lotus/IBM Symix
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All Star Directories Navigation and site map highlighting user path to
conversion (green and orange), and away (gray)
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All Star Directories
Competing versions of listing page (Visio)
Redesigned listing page as implemented (click to view live)
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Microsoft Robotics
Designs from Robotics group protected under non-disclosure agreement Menu system for gesture control Customer experience diagram of purchase-
to-setup scenarios and opportunities to delight
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Vertafore Identity Manager
Wireframe of pages and navigation flow for 3 user roles (Visio)
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Vertafore Identity Manager
Annotated wireframe of product used to spec/demonstrate design and interaction for remote dev team
Interactive wireframe used for user testing (constructed using iPlotz, between Balsamiq and Azuxe in functionality)
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Verdiem Surveyor 6.0
Wireframes showing current and future releases (Visio)
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Verdiem Surveyor 6.0
High Fidelity Mockups branded for Verdiem and Cisco
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Isilon Admin Console
Clean, easy to read and understand, pleasing Standardized CSS for improved consistency and ease of
implementation
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Microsoft Stirling (FCS v2)
Driving ‘critical visibility’ feature
Designing fully customizable dashboard
Designing reports across 8 protection technologies and 3 feature teams
Navigation uses contextual links within charts for drilling into data
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Microsoft Stirling (FCS v2)
Using affinity diagrams to create personas and scenarios
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Microsoft Stirling (FCS v2)
Socializing the design within the team
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Microsoft Forefront Client Security
Drove UX team to RTM and Ship (Spring 07) Filled Design, User Research, and PM roles Demo at
http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/clientsecuritydefault.mspx
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Created visual representations to clarify complicated interaction and data models
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Presenting new functionality to the team
Increasing visibility across the team
Driving buy-in
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Microsoft FCS
Conducted User Research and Usability
Designed tests
Scheduled sessions
Ran sessions Reported
results Pushed
changes into product
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Microsoft FCS
Communicating changes across milestones
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Microsoft FCS
Presenting estimates and defending features
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Teaching at Microsoft
For Premier Partners(quoted by attendee at conference 8 years later)
For internal dev teams
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Firewall Control Panel
Before Cannot easily diagnose
problems Cannot change settings
easily nor predict final state
After Common tasks are presented
first Important information
presented on opening page
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Windows Firewall Control Panel
Information architecture
Flow diagrams UI Maps
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Lotus Notes Mail
Designed new toolbars framework for client
Dockable
Auto-Resizing
Drag and drop customization
Designed pioneering email and chat integration
Other features
Quickrules for folders (later copied in Outlook)
Folder indicators for new mail in child folders (usability problem in Outlook)
Blacklisting of spam
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Active names in emails are fully editable
Full range of IM options are presented in multiple contexts
IM action button on far left to avoids buttons changing positions when IM is not active
IM incorporated into meeting requests
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Symix Syteline
Sole UI Designer on product with1800 screens to convert from green screens to Windows
Design was all about correct task flow, organizing complexity, speed of use, and error prevention
Instituted design process that collected context experts and stakeholders from across the company to collaborate on design
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Joel Baskin
Contact me for more information 425.766.3947 [email protected]
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