Skills

A user advocate, design thinker and data nerd with
deep experience in user research and
strategy for customer experiences.

 

Thought Leadership

  • UX Strategy and research

  • Cross-disciplinary innovation

  • Digital behavior

  • User motivations, wants & needs

  • Design Thinking

  • Consumer experiences

  • New product strategy


Research Experience

  • User advocate

  • Vendor management and communications

  • Research objective(s), purpose & goals

  • Identification of methods

  • Success criteria and metrics

  • User profiles

  • Expectations and assumptions

  • Deliverables and timing

  • Mentorship & education in research methodologies

  • Recruitment identification

  • Interview facilitation

  • Distillation of research outcomes

  • Communication strategy & insights story

  • Actionable recommendations to a diverse range of disciplines

  • Customer insights owner

  • User advocate

  • Presentation designer & infographics

  • Lean UX

  • Documentation


List of Applied Methods

  • Experimental design

  • Flexible user testing

  • Field studies - IHUTs, customer visits, direct observation, ethnographic research, contextual inquiry

  • Interviews

  • Diary/Camera studies

  • Usability studies & review

  • Surveys online & paper

  • Focus groups

  • Customer feedback

  • Personas & Archetypes

  • Card sorting

  • Baseline & benchmark testing

  • Participatory Design

  • Prototype - paper, lo-fi and hi-fi

  • Customer journey & experience mapping

  • Concept testing

  • Data analysis

  • Screeners / Participant selection

  • Secondary (desk) research

  • Competitive & comparative research

  • SWOT analysis

  • Data Scientist collaborative planning, strategy and analysis

  • Prototype real-time analytics

  • In-market analytics analysis

  • Hardware testing


Technologies

  • Apps (Android/iOS)

  • Websites

  • Smart devices

  • Research sciences (AI, VUI, gestural interactions)

  • IoT / BLE

  • Software

  • Product sensor feedback

Industries

  • Consumer experiences

  • Consumer health products

  • Domestic home products

  • Urban planning

  • Architecture & workplace environments

  • Cyber security

  • Manufacturing

  • Marketing

  • Think tanks

  • Education

Contributor to… 

  • Agile process

  • Scrum process

  • Lean Start-up

  • Hack-a-thons

  • Proposals

  • Design-build project delivery

  • International research

  • Story mapping

  • Workshops