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I'm Nicole. 

It's very nice to meet you.

I am an award-winning UX Management Certified and Board Certified Cognitive Specialist with 20 years professional experience. My background includes working in agencies, consulting and engineering firms, government contracting, and freelance. My speciality is Cognitive and General Accessibility.

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Focus Areas

  • Certified UX Management Professional

  • 20+ years experience using Adobe Creative Suite

  • Board certified Cognitive and general accessibility specialist

  • Extensive experience working in 508 compliance, WCAG, and accessibility with government agencies

  • Expertise in user experience (UX), human-centered design, service design, implementation design and customer experience (CX)

  • Ten years of experience working on fully remote teams

  • Experience designing and prototyping

  • Experience designing for iOS and Android applications

  • Passionate about people

  • Love the product life cycle, expertise in the areas of strategy & digital transformation

  • Experience shaping and leading solutions to accessible data visualization in an increasingly complex and changing technological environment

  • Methodical, excellent with processes and strategy

  • Experience creating design systems

  • Ability to work independently, manage multiple tasks, and set priorities with direction and/or feedback from stakeholders and teammates

  • Experience working in a high performing, collaborative teams with engineers, business leaders, analysts, executives, marketers, and other key stakeholder roles

  • Experience working in Agile environment, use of JIRA, andknowledge of engineering workflows

  • Experience working in human factors and behavioral science

  • Strong interest in continuous learning

  • Love problem solving

  • Experience leading stakeholders through change where there maybe a lack of explicit authority

  • Looking to move mountains

What I've been working on 

Currently I am the Lead UX Designer for USAGov and USAGov en Español with GSA. The work for these projects is not included here in my public portfolio. Please contact me directly for more information.

  • Develop and recommend user experience and design solutions and provide in depth guidance in implementation

  • Serve as a project wide resource as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in design, accessibility, and UX, providing advice concerning content, design, CX/user experience, and accessibility

  • Maintain a system of communication between multiple teams to keep projects moving with transparency

  • Design user-focused websites and tools, including phases of wire framing, user flows, all fidelity mockups, user testing, and more

  • Shape and lead solutions to accessible data visualization in an increasingly complex and changing technological environment

  • Provide ongoing evaluation of activities in functional area(s) of responsibility and expertise. Identify the need for changes in operation, emphasis, priorities, planning, training, or methodologies and makes recommendations to remedy the situation

  • Apply knowledge of user-centered design process

  • Attend conferences and symposia with professional public and private organizations to further develop coordinated approaches to user experience, data visualization, and design

  • Design and maintain a design and branding guide of rules and branding asset library

  • Provide creative and brand guidance on the platform and all of its channels (websites, contact center and social media)

  • Collaborate with multiple teams (UX, Content, Development, Analytics and Accessibility) to evolve and refine our design system, ensuring visual cohesion and engineering efficiency across the digital presence

  • Analyze user feedback and activity, and iterate to enhance the user experience of  products

  • Design interfaces for our various products including USAGov and Vote.gov


In my previous role, I was the designer for behavioral energy efficiency programs, including R&D and UX/UI for multiple utilities, including  Georgia Power, PG&E, Consumers Energy, Ameren, AEP Public Service of Oklahoma. Behavioral programs provide a unique opportunity to open a dialogue with large groups of users about their energy use. My mission is to present personalized data reports regarding energy usage to the consumer in a way that engages and shifts their behavior from passive recipient of energy reports to active participant in other programs including digital experiences and promotions. Sparking and keeping consumer interest is critical to changing the amount and type of attention these reports receive and motivating the consumer to take actions to reduce their energy usage.

Additional Training

Board Certified Cognitive Specialist - IBCCES, June 2022 

UX Management Certification - Nielsen Norman Group, June 2021 and 2023

 

Sketch for UX Design Teams - Linkedin Learning, February 2020 

 

Presenting Data and Information - Edward Tufte, October 2018 

 

Conducting Usability Testing - Interaction Design Foundation, July 2018 

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