UX Design/Interaction Design/User Research/Design Management/www.mistyacripps.com

You can find out more about me at:
www.linkedin.com/in/mistycripps
www.mistyacripps.com

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
2012 – 2015, Principal/owner Booda Studio, Freelance IXD, UX, and user Researcher
2007 – 2012, Principal Designer at Frog Design
2004 – 2007, Senior Interaction Designer Yahoo! (Media Group)
2003 – 2004, User Experience Designer at Oracle
2000-2003, Senior Information Architect at Saba Software

WORK HISTORY
2012 – 2015 Principal/Owner Booda Studio, Freelance IXD, UX, and User Researcher
Booda Studio is a design and content team formed by husband and me. We work on design projects, as well as content strategy and social media management.

• Responsible for lead generation
• Specialize in UX design, qualitative and quantitative research, conceptual modeling, interaction design, wireframing, information architecture, functional specifications, detailed design documentation, prototyping, workflows, and design management.
• We also work on writing, research, analysis, copyediting and social media management.
• Have both lead teams and worked independently on projects large and small.
• I’ve worked on projects from wearable sports watches to redesign of large websites to enterprise work on collaboration platforms and entertainment devices.
• My ultimate goal is to create beautiful, meaningful things that evoke emotionally impactful responses from consumers, which helps enhance their relationships with our client’s brands.

2007 – 2012 Principal Designer at Frog Design

• Responsible for seeing any design challenge from concept to implementation.
• Adroit at quickly moving from management of work and other designers to execution of design work as needed for projects.
• Responsible for developing conceptual approaches to design problems that meet both client and internal strategic, business, and financial objectives.
• Create presentations of design work at every phase of design for clients in order to convey design and design rationale.
• Deliver design presentations to both internal and external clients.
• Manage and produce the tactical execution and delivery of project artifacts, including qualitative and quantitative research, conceptual frameworks, interaction models, workflows, wireframes, proof-of-concepts, detailed design documentation, and style guides.
• Lead design teams, including interaction designers, visual designers, and prototypers on highly complex large-scale projects, while maintaining the ability to develop a unique conceptual viewpoint.
• Excel at communicating conceptual ideas, design rationale, and detailed design specifications to both internal and external teams using both verbal and visual approaches.
• Ability to speak and write persuasively on design, mobile, and human factors research for internal peer education, projects, and new business development.
• Responsible for promoting and supporting cross-disciplinary methods in the studio.

2004 – 2007 Senior Interaction Designer Yahoo! (Media Group)

• Sole interaction designer for major redesign of Yahoo! Movies Oscar minisite. Responsible for contributing to concepting/ideation, design of site architecture, creation of template wireframes, and creation of functional specs.
• Primary interaction designer on first launch of Yahoo! Food. Responsible for working on initial research (competitive analysis & concepting/ideation), creation of template wireframes, creation of task flows, creation of recipe taxonomy, creation of functional specs, and creation of functional specs used to create editorial tools used to program site.
• Sole interaction designer on many microsites for Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! TV, and Yahoo! Health. Responsible for contributing to concepting/ideation, creation of template wireframes, creation of task flows, and creation of functional specs.
• Sole interaction designer for phase 1 redesign of Yahoo! Health. Responsible for contributing to concepting/ideation, creation of template wireframes, creation of task flows, participation in RITE testing, and creation of functional specs.
• Lead the phase 2 redesign of Yahoo! Health. Responsible for design project management, creating a new ontology, redesign of all site templates, and aligning visual design of property to Media Group guidelines.
• Lead the concept design of new property in Yahoo! Lifestyles group. Responsible for design project management and research, including persona development, scenarios, competitive analysis, and moodboards.

2003 – 2004 User Experience Designer at Oracle

• Wrote interaction design specifications.
• Contributed use cases, task models, interaction design specs, and prototypes to business and functional requirements documents.
• Created fully interactive working prototypes using HTML, CFML, SQL, and native PS Application Designer.
• Created new stylesheets for PeopleSoft CRM 8.9. Delivered specification to development for runtime changes needed in order to implement new stylesheet.
• Worked on re-design of enterprise search and error handling.
• Redesigned web-based Patch and Upgrade finder application.
• Conducted usability testing:
• Assisted usability engineering in writing test plans, scenarios, and tasks.
• Created working prototypes for testing.
• Logged test sessions.
• Made enhancement recommendations, created test reports, and presented recommendations to project stakeholders.

2000-2003 Senior Information Architect at Saba Software

• Helped lead group interaction with other departments and drove UI enhancements through the product lifecycle.
• Developed and launched first-ever Standards & Guidelines system.
• Re-architected a role-based information architecture that was adopted and implemented in the next- generation product line.
• Translated requirements from Product Management into use cases, task models, wireframes, and interactive prototypes.
• Delivered page templates to development using HTML, CSS, and XSL.
• Conducted customer interviews.
• Conducted user testing of paper and functional prototypes.
• Created task models with UML
• Provided basic project management and workload balancing for design department.
• Conducted skills training on new/emerging technology to peers.

AWARD AND PATENTS
Sprint One Click – Best New Product, CTIA 2008 
Method and system for viewing stacked screen displays using gestures
United States Patent 13/247971 Issued May 3, 2012
Universal clipboard
United States Patent 13/247801 Issued May 3, 2012
Desktop Reveal By Moving a Logical Display Stack With Gestures
United States Patent 13/247325 Issued June 7, 2012
Recording A Trail Of Webpages
United States Patent 20120210237 Issued August 16, 2012

PUBLICATIONS
Your company needs a CCO – The five attributes of a good Chief Creative Officer
Texas CEO Magazine July/August 2015

EDUCATION
University of California, Davis, Linguistics
Sierra College, General Education