USER EXPERIENCE (UX) DESIGNER
Website: http://www.bluesplat.com
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/angelatavares/
Email: art101@gmail.com
University of Washington | Seattle, WA
UX Designer, June 2018 – Present
- Design online resources, create prototypes, develop user flows, and collaborate with stakeholders to improve library services for university students, faculty, and community.
- Plan and manage both remote and in-person mixed methods research on user behavior/attitudes, usability, accessibility, and product strategy to inform design decisions across all campus library departments.
- Participatory design project presented at 2021 International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries, “We are all online students now” https://libraryperformance.org/proceedings-presentations/
University of Washington | Seattle, WA
Designer, June 2005 - May 2018
- Designed and developed a customized frontend to an asset management React application. This online digital collection archive averages over 30,000 visitors per month and is featured in Washington State K-12 lesson plans.
- Through strong coding and project management skills, created a web-based museum showcasing aspects of the history and culture of Olympic Peninsula communities that included the Makah Tribe, Hoh Tribe, National Park Service, and the UW Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest.
- Partnered with key stakeholders within the University and external vendors to steward a major initiative designing an online museum featuring the Museum of History and Industry.
Tableau Software | Seattle, WA
UX Designer and Researcher, September 2017 - March 2018
- Designed, prototyped, and tested new dashboard engagement tools after conducting secondary research, heuristic evaluations, user interviews, and end-user design workshops to determine areas for improving collaboration on data analysis and visualization in the cloud.
SMART Technologies | Seattle, WA
UX Researcher (Graduate Student), January 2017 - March 2017
- Leveraged research and analytic skills to plan and run moderated usability studies evaluating the first-time user experience of a game-based application prototype for teachers to use in their classrooms.
University of Washington | Seattle, WA
- Master of Science, Human-Centered Design and Engineering, June 2018
- Professional Certificate in Information Architecture, I-School Information Management Program
- Bachelor of Arts, Double Major: Communications and Political Science
Design:
Visual Design, User Interface Design, Interaction Design, Storyboarding, User & Task Flows, Information Architecture, Wireframing, Prototyping
Research:
Mixed-Methods Research, Interviews, Usability Tests, Data Analysis, Observational Studies, Surveys
Figma, Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Cloud, HTML, CSS, JS