mandynicole
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mandynicole

UI/UX Design Engineer in Portland, OR, she/her

Current availability for full-time and contract UI/UX design engineering opportunities.

15 days ago

About

Hey, I'm Mandy! I've been designing and developing interactive experiences for nearly 25 years.

Throughout my career I've had several wonderful opportunities to lead and manage design & front-of-the-front-end implementations on product teams and at digital agencies alike, but I thrive best as an individual contributor.

I am always interested in meeting like-minded folks, and would especially love to chat if you're working in social/planetary good, dev tools, civic tech, or gaming and seeking a highly-experienced design engineer to visualize and build intuitive, accessible, and standards-driven interfaces.

Work Experience

2004 — Now
UI/UX Design, Development & Consulting at mandynicole

Over two decades of working with clients independently as a designer, developer, and consultant with a focus on mindful interfaces, experiences, and code.

Recent clients include:

  • Oni Press

  • Kapor Center

  • Imaginable Futures

  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement

2018 — 2019
Senior Front-End Designer at Ergon Tech

Ergon was a very talented ecommerce dev shop doing custom development and platform migrations for Magento storefronts.

Clients included:

  • Danner Boots

  • LaCrosse Footwear

  • Wildfang

Initially hired to help lead and train design engineering, our growth quickly shifted my primary focus back to production. This included designing and prototyping interactions, interfaces, user flows, and developing their final implementations.

For Danner and LaCrosse, I was responsible for a total refactor of the CSS as part of their respective migrations from Magento 1 to 2 and Foundation 4 to 5. Outside of a few adjustment to typography for readability purposes, a custom cart view, and a redesigned checkout experience, the new and old sites shared 1:1 visual parity, as per requirements. As part of this work, I also created custom living style guides for both design systems with usage instructions to assist their content teams.

2016 — 2017
Interaction Designer at Steelcase

At Steelcase, I was part of the Interaction Design team within their Smart + Connected category. The team was small and built intentionally, with each of us having specializations. For me that was rapid prototyping and development.

We were utilized by multiple facets of the organization, including global branding, UX research, industrial design, education, medical, and IT, but our primary function was to support our category's hardware and software offerings. This included designing mobile and web applications, touch interfaces, boot/idle animations, and external lighting.

The first project I was assigned to was the flagship hardware and software package they were developing to help organizations better utilize their spaces and amenities through capturing a series of data points in real-time for assessment and feedback. The web interface included roles-based views for both the analytics dashboards and equipment monitoring/management. Initially I provided in-browser prototypes to the design and development teams to refine and review, including learning Angular to independently develop a dedicated proof-of-concept, but to help alleviate implementation issues and build better rapport between design and engineering, I started contributing directly to the codebase, pair program with the project's front-end team, and assisting with design-related code reviews and demos.

I also worked with my ID team to document best practices for our category (specifically relating to web application design), and met with a variety of departments to document challenges they were facing and wanted to solve through technology.

2015 — 2016
Senior UI/UX Designer at Copious

Copious was a digital agency with a focus on ecomm. While there, I helped bridge their design-to-engineering workflow; translating varying fidelities of design documents to code, helping creatives explore possibilities through new core web technologies, and bringing engineers up-to-speed on how to use them.

My primary client was Rejuvenation (Williams-Sonoma), who used a custom Rails solution for their storefront. I was responsible for engaging with designers and engineers to ship new and updated features, as well as the design engineering behind a fully responsive rebrand that prioritized accessibility, a flexible product grid system, and replacing JS interactions with native CSS.

I also assisted with the UI/UX implementation and project management of a privacy-driven social platform to silo engagement based on audience type. Collaborating directly with the founder, we were able to build and ship v1 of the native mobile app the web app in tandem in just a few months.

2014 — 2014
UI/UX Designer at The Brigade

Contracted with an incredibly talented group of people at creative experience agency The Brigade to provide design and development support for a variety of projects.

Clients included:

  • Bose (in collaboration with Spotify)

  • Lucidworks

2010 — 2013
Senior UI/UX Designer at Evanta

Evanta, now a Gartner company, organizes leadership events for Fortune 500 C-Suite executives. During my time there, they experienced non-stop growth, and my role was to lead and scale the design of all of their digital properties, including their custom CRM, company website, email campaigns, and private social network.

I also initiated a rebranding campaign to both re‐imagine and standardize the company's visuals and tone of voice, bridging the disparity between print and web with the hope of digitizing some of our expensive printed materials. I was able to bring three designers from Marketing onto the project, which explored numerous ways to maintain brand cohesion throughout the unrelenting growth, and mitigating costs while increasing engagement through digitization and personalization.

2008 — 2010
Designer at Stepframe Interactive

Stepframe was a small but highly efficient digital agency with a deep bench of local and national clients. During my time there, I designed and developed websites, emails, Flash animations, print materials, and even did some copy- and commercial scriptwriting.

Clients included:

  • Microsoft

  • Starbucks

  • T-Mobile

  • Kaiser Permanente

  • Expedia

  • PNNL

  • Energy Northwest

2007 — 2007
Designer at nukeDigital
2004 — 2007
Graphic Designer at TMP
2002 — 2004
Designer / Digital Archivist at WBL

Work-based learning with two different agencies; one where I was responsible for digitally archiving and color-correcting printed media, and another where I was designing and developing local business websites.

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