“Since 2006, I have partnered with teams from startup to enterprise working in data heavy, complex tools.”

-Ben Misky (They/Them)

Interface & experience design

Senior Designer with broad expertise in all organizational levels designing responsive mobile software applications and interfaces for native and third-party enterprise frameworks, as well as fast paced agency culture managing multiple clients with aggressive scheduling.

My diverse background brings a valuable perspective in the balancing of client, technical, and user needs.

 

Skill focus

Wireframing, Research, User Story Authoring and Curating, Interaction Design, Rapid Prototyping, User Centered Design, Responsive UI Design, Agile, Scrum, Data Analysis, Branding, Project Management, Vector Illustration, Motion Graphics, Traditional Media, Commercial Photo-Retouching, Academic Archiving and Processing

 

Wayfair 2022-Present

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DAT Freight & Analytics 2021-2022

-Mapped end to end shipment lifecycle, and maintaining a living reference document for the entire organization to use in strategy and tactics

-Lead in optimizing 15 disparate applications into a unified platform across web, Android, and iOS

-Coordinated international teams across multiple projects in the freight and analytics space

The Home Depot 2018-2021

-Initiated atomic component library initiative, normalizing UI elements and increasing overall product usability

-Designed multiple in store configurable window pilots, increasing reducing time on task for window configuration by 80%

-Documented workflow of internal tools and mapped themes from user interviews to common pain points creating in a product roadmap for internal improvements.

-Lead theming and synthesis of catalog tool usage, delivering Agile story sized improvements

The Home Depot 2018-2021

-Initiated atomic component library initiative, normalizing UI elements and increasing overall product usability

-Designed multiple in store configurable window pilots, increasing reducing time on task for window configuration by 80%

-Documented workflow of internal tools and mapped themes from user interviews to common pain points creating in a product roadmap for internal improvements.

-Lead theming and synthesis of catalog tool usage, delivering Agile story sized improvements

Igrafx, llc 2016-2018

-Realigned core product branding and usability, increasing product visibility and competitive placement resulting in Capterra “Best Ease of Use” 2019 Award

-Streamlined and led Agile story writing, grooming, and pointing by utilizing user centered design principles that resulted in formalizing a quarterly developmental release schedule

-Reduced costs across entire organization by leading discovery and conceptualizing of feature design with engineering, ensuring technical requirements are satisfied in conjunction with business goals

-Grew communication channels between Product Management and Engineering resulting in increased sprint velocity

-Fostered growth of internal office culture through regular team building activities designed to leverage individual team/resource skills in a non-competitive setting

-Increased application performance across all offerings by implementing best practice User Interface principles

Con-Way, Inc.  2014-2015

-Introduced advanced rapid prototyping (Axure) and acted as SME and mentor, increasing organizational expertise and allowing for development independent user testing

-Led an enterprise level asset aggregation, reducing development costs by facilitating consistent interface changes across all applications and programs

-Built pattern level UI specifications library for organization, resulting in a common direction for all future UI development built on user-testing validated patterns

-Championed user centered design across organization, leading education and incorporation of user experience methodologies, resulting in increased organizational adoption

-Standardized design deliverables and process for UX team members, allowing disparate projects to utilize a more unified expectations and greater transparency into cross project activities

-Acted as technical lead, advising as functional reference and increasing application mastery across teams and projects, as well as leading and managing team members on a daily basis

 

Minacs Marketing 2013-2014

-Initiated User Centered Design practices by introducing wireframe methodology into development cycles, clarifying technical needs and increasing transparency between development and business

-Introduced principles of experience design at a global agency level, decreasing re-work and increasing conversion rates across OEM’s

-Lead in process development for visualizing, coding, and testing responsive email template library leading to increased production rates and a reduction of development costs

North American Bancard 2012-2013

-Lead in design, user-testing, and asset creation of responsive mobile, cross-platform, native, e-commerce solution (PayAnywhere), creating an OS agnostic mobile experience, increasing accessibility to users with multiple device and viewport needs

-Collaborated on Scrum process implementation and change management, facilitating stakeholder negotiations that resulted in successful culture fit and process adherence.

Digital Image Studios 2006-2012

Lead in design, reducing post-development changes and providing immediate cost-savings

-Collaborated in building a program taxonomy for multiple projects, increasing accuracy, delivery capacity & archiving viability for all studio projects

-Leveraged rapid adaptation skills to act in a mentoring role for new or experimental web, motion graphic, & front-end development, creating a means for more easily onboarding in house resources and increasing overall studio efficacy

-Lead UI design & development of for trade show touch terminals and interactive concept car show pieces, increasing studios involvement in pre-capacitive touch screen projects.

-developed implementation & archiving methodologies for large scale asset handling, increasing production and delivery rates of assets for all clients

-Implemented html/css/JavaScript code review standards for html libraries, reducing re-work and increasing the overall quality of code across team

 

Let’s Chat.

bmisky at gmail
(248) 930-8218