Skills — SPAUL Design

My Work

I’ve worked on large cap-ex projects, small optimizations, and ground up applications. Over time I’ve rounded out my skills as a UX designer and Design Systems leader. Utilizing tools like Sketch, JIRA, Mural, and many more to design new experiences or establish standards.

Beyond design, I enjoy translating the work into functional experiences with front-end development. I’ve worked in static site environments and dynamic IDEs such as Visual Studio. My development skillset is focused in HTML & CSS but I’ve worked with SASS and have some exposure with React components and JS.

Top Skills

Component & Pattern Design

While working on the design system at A&F I honed my skills for component design and balancing design purpose with standardization. Finding alignment between design and development through common naming conventions and design principles.

HTML/CSS/SCSS

I really enjoy translating design output into working interfaces. My design background helps me understand the intended structure and behavior when building experiences. I’ve spent over 10 years working with HTML/CSS and enjoy learning new industry technologies that help deliver the best experience to the user.

UX Design

I’ve spent much of my professional career as a UX designer. From benchmarking, use case mapping, flow diagrams or wireframing in Mural, to high fidelity comps in Sketch and user testing, I’ve developed a comprehensive skillset for designing experiences in the digital medium.

Library Creation & Management

Along with a component repo for developers, the design kit is equally critical for a successful design system. I’ve created and managed Sketch libraries since they first introduced the symbol libraries in 2017. I love learning and evolving design kits as the tools advance (responsive layouts, design tokens, etc.).

Cross-functional Leadership

My ability to collaborate across many different teams and lead teams towards a common solution has advanced my career to levels I never could have imagined. I love leading teams in a workshop exercises with Mural or talking through a problem and documenting each team’s needs in Confluence. It’s a vital skillset to establish effective design systems and create effective digital experiences.

Roadmap & Planning

While managing the design system at A&F, it was important that I laid out a plan for the team’s direction and determine priorities. I’ve managed roadmaps in tools like Product Plan, and task management in JIRA & Trello. I enjoy collaborating with teams to discover the best order to tackle work, it often results in discovering more work too and creative solutions.