hannahmilan

hannahmilan

Product designer, She/Her

About

Product designer. Designing for Impact, Inclusivity, Insightfulness, and Conversion-Driven outcomes.

Here's my resume if you need it.

Work Experience

2018 — Now
Lead Product Designer at stc
2011 — 2013
Web Designer at egov Bahrain
2009 — 2011
Front-end Designer at Sykes Inc.

Projects

2022

In collaboration with Stark, we've created this wonderful collection of accessibility tips and guidelines for the community

2022

A kid-friendly mobile app that helps non-verbal kids to communicate with their parents, teachers and friends.

2022

A multilingual AAC card and phrase groups designed for kids' special education, translated in more than 37 languages.

2022

Plan your children's day and communicate their tasks better and easier with Wingo app

2021

Huni is a mobile app Speech Recognition powered Speech Training SLP App designed for children.

2020

Made this project 2 years ago - A growing list of accessibility tools and resources all in-one place

2019

Curating what I love - UX/UI patterns but in motion.

Side Projects

2023

Curated directory of friendly, single serving and tiny projects found in the wild.

2023

Learn accessibility in a bite size

2020

An educational AI scavenger hunt game app for kids

2020

Curated list of UX Case Studies around the web

2019

A daily UX/UI design prompt to help you practice your designing skills. Design prompts ideas are from my very complicated brain.

2013

A web design publication (Acquired)

2011

Fireworks Wireframing Kit is a free and handy wireframing resource. Handcrafted solely with Adobe fireworks, gone with the wind along the sudden shutdown of Adobe Fireworks :(

Awards

2022

Leeloo AAC est une application de communication gratuite et disponible en français. Cette application avec retour vocal permet aux jeunes enfants d’entrer dans la CAA.

2022

UNICEF reviews "Leeloo is an app that helps non-verbal children communicate with their carers, teachers and friends. Leeloo is developed with the augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and picture exchange communication system (PECS) principles. These are strong techniques for autism treatment and autism therapy."

Features

2022

Have you spotted our Person of the Week already? Please give a round of applause for Hannah Milan, product designer, maker, and accessibility advocate.

2012

An interview made about me and my love of Adobe Fireworks as a tool

Writing

2024

Figma has become a popular design tool for many web and mobile app designers and developers, but there are a lot of plugins, widgets, and files within Figma that are specifically designed for accessibility. This article will cover 10+ of the best Figma plugins, widgets, and files for accessibility. Let’s dive in!

2023

In part 2 of the series reviews various accessible text over images techniques for designing your content, including framing the image, soft-colored gradients technique, text styles and text position, solid color shapes, and use of colored backgrounds.

2023

In this two-part series of articles covers the best practices when using various accessible text over images techniques for designing your web and mobile app content. These practices can help you to make the text over images more accessible while retaining an aesthetically pleasing look. Get ready to deep-dive through the subtle changes in your design, such as the text’s position, size, and background style, and explore the importance of using real text for accessibility purposes, as opposed to using images of text.

2022

Curating 5 Tiny Projects a week, out every Thursday at Twitter

Volunteering

Contact

Twitter
Dribbble
Medium
GitHub
Product Hunt