UX Designer Focused On Social Impact

I am a Product Designer with the proven know-how to combine my understanding of design trends, user's needs, needs of business, and industry best practices to achieve business goals. My speciality lies in Innovation, start-up's, and social good companies.

Experience

Idea Couture
A Cognizant Company

2021-Current

UX Lead

Idea Couture is a global strategic innovation and experience design firm that specializes in behavioral insight, strategic foresight & rapid prototyping.
  •  Led stakeholder interviews and needs analysis.
  • Facilitated UX Audits & Comparative Analyses during client engagements.
  • Conducted qualitative user research methods in the field and via Userlystics.
  • Co-led strategic workshops for development and business teams to create strategic assets such as journey and story maps.
  • Created experience maps, user-flow diagrams & high level system architecture diagrams to inform the client and Cognizant teams of strategic approach.
  • Aligned with team leads for capacity planning, created design sprints, refined user-stories, and groomed functional requirements.Worked closely with content and design teams to finalize prototypes and visual designs.
  • Led A/B testing efforts of prototyped concepts.
  • Contributed to increasing productivity by 20% amongst UX and Design team by templatizing tools and standardizing processes
Notable Clients: CCI, Circle K, McDonald’s, Alaska Air, NAPA Auto

Cadient Group

A Cognizant Company

2018-2021

Senior UX Designer

  • Led a team of  Two UX Designers to create engaging web and mobile experiences predominantly in the life sciences vertical.
  • Seamlessly worked Creative and Account teams to win and retain over 5M of new business.
  • Communicated across the account teams to ensure user experience and accessibility best practices where being adhered to
  • Provided strategic direction client engagements
  •  Facilitated UX Audits & Comparative Analyses during client engagements.
  • Conducted Gap analysis of UI componentry 
  • Led Story Mapping & high level system architecture diagrams to inform the client and Cognizant teams of strategic approach.
  • Aligned with team leads for capacity planning, created design sprints, refined user-stories, and groomed functional requirements.
  • Worked closely with content and design teams to create and finalize prototypes for visual design.
Notable Clients: Molina Healthcare, Abbott, Bayer, Incyte, WeC3G
Synchronoss Technologies

2013 – 2017

UI / UX Designer

Global Cloud services, messaging, digital, and network management solutions provider for enterprise clients
  • Worked in agile product development processes to create mobile applications using high-fidelity wire-frames and prototypes, while adhering the brand guidelines of its clients.
  • Contributed and led discussions around UX process, user engagement, UX tools and techniques
  • Spearheaded user research to gain insight into user’s data consumption and social media habits

Awards

Gold Stevie Award – 2021 

Best Use of Technology in Sales and Customer Service 

Molina Health Care

Skills

Team Leadership, Journey & Story Mapping, User Research, Rapid Prototyping, Story Mapping, Journey Mapping, Wire Framing, Critical Thinking, Strategy, Data Collection

Tools

Design
Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma, InVision, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Principle, Final Cut, HTML CSS/SCSS
Research 
Miro, Otter, Userlystics, G-Suite, Microsoft Office

Education

University of the Arts

Bachelors of fine Arts in Multimedia
2007-2013

NYU, Continuing Education

Advanced Journey Mapping

2015

Thanks for Visiting!

Let's collaborate to bring your design aspirations to life. Whether it's shaping innovative digital experiences that resonate or delving into passion projects that push creative boundaries, I'm here to make an impact.

For any inquiries please email or visit me on LinkedIn or email me at mdewittdesigns@gmail.com