About
I'm Jax Powell, a passionate Product Designer dedicated to making the world a better place by understanding users' needs and promoting inclusivity. Currently, I lead product design on the gamification team at CuraJOY, a behavioral healthcare nonprofit, designing wellness services for both B2C and B2B customers.
Previously, I contributed to impactful projects at the Urban League, Odyssey App, and NASA's JPL, gaining valuable experience across diverse industries. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Informatics HCI (human-computer interaction) from UC, Irvine where I also studied CS and business.
I’m passionate about crafting designs that not only meet user needs but also foster inclusivity and accessibility. Let’s connect and discuss how we can build meaningful solutions together!
Writing
Collaborative pregnancy tracking can enhance social bonding and data management, but privacy concerns and varied stakeholder interests present challenges. New designs should respect socio-cultural roles.
AI descriptions in health apps influence user trust and perception, especially when explanations are provided. Users prefer transparency but remain cautious about high-stakes decisions.
Pregnancy-tracking apps help stakeholders bond and manage tasks but often overlook diverse needs and social roles. Inclusive designs should address varied relationships and identities.
Work Experience
✦ Led the design of generative AI features, creating intuitive user interfaces and experiences that leverage AI capabilities, resulting in a 4.7% increase in user satisfaction.
✦ Designed and maintained a comprehensive gamification framework tailored to different user groups and family dynamics, incorporating point systems, badges, challenges, and rewards to meet diverse needs.
✦ Fostered a culture of innovation and creativity by organizing design sprints and brainstorming sessions to ideate and prototype new concepts and features.
✦ Contributed to redesigning the Urban League's website, emphasizing optimal user experience and SEO best practices. ✦ Employed various research methods, such as one-on-one user interviews, user walkthroughs, card sorting, and surveys, to analyze quantitative and qualitative data.
✦ Established and maintained design systems for consistency across product interfaces, streamlining the design workflow leading to a 25% increase in rapid prototyping and testing efficiency.
✦ Collected and analyzed comprehensive data sets from over 1,000 user reviews for pregnancy tracking applications.
✦ Utilized coding skills to derive meaningful patterns from user data, enhancing understanding of user preferences and behaviors.
✦ Authored three influential papers published in ACM, focusing on the social dynamics surrounding pregnancy tracking applications.
✦ Collaborated effectively through daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, and retrospectives to ensure continuous improvement and project progress.
✦ Crafted elevated designs by incorporating feedback from partners and stakeholders during formal design reviews and presentations.
✦ Created visually appealing, user-friendly interfaces by applying color theory and typography principles to enhance the overall user experience.
✦ Developed visualizations depicting the SMAP spacecraft maneuvers and ground tracking as part of the annual verification project.
✦ Developed an interactive website showcasing real-time information on the position, trajectory, and sensors of the SMAP spacecraft.
✦ Generated visualizations to enhance the SMAP’s unexpected recovery mission, aiding in critical Decision-making and timing communication with ground stations.
✦ Set up and monitored essential teaching technologies (Canvas, Zoom, and Yuja) for UCI teachers and students, ensuring seamless academic operations.
✦ Collaborated with UERU to enter data for over 25 of UCI’s degree programs, contributing to accurate and up-to-date program records.
✦ Designed Canvas layouts to ensure the accessibility of learning plans and company websites.
Education
Certifications
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