Principal Human-centered product designer

Hi, I’m Joy.

I turn complex problems into simple, intuitive & user friendly experiences.

Based in Baltimore
Maryland USA.
Let’s make something useful.
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02 — About

Human-centered led solutions, built on partnership and collaboration.

I partner with teams to uncover the real problem before creating the right solution. From research and strategy to prototyping, validation and delivery, I balance business context, technical possibility and human behavior to make digital experiences more useful, clear and considered.

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Approach: Empathize & Define, Design & Deliver.

01
Research & Strategize
Requirements, user research, use cases, personas, journeys and workshops make the problem—and the opportunity—clear.
02
Experience Architecture
Information architecture, content inventory, user flows, service blueprints and accessibility turn insights into a useful path forward.
03
Design & Validate
Wireframes, prototypes, interaction design and responsive systems make ideas tangible, testable and ready to learn from.
04
Deliver & evolve
Usability testing, card sorts, metrics analysis and close engineering collaboration help the work improve through launch and beyond.
Tools & deliverySalesforce Lightning Design SystemFigmaIllustratorAxureMiroLucidSketchBalsamiqAdobe XDFront-end collaborationAgile · Scrum · WaterfallJira · Confluence · Kanban · Monday · Trello
03 — Let’s make something useful
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