Hi, I'm Emily 👋

As a freelance web designer, I create visually appealing and functional websites that align with my client's branding and user experience needs. My process includes designing layout elements, developing or aligning with their brand’s colors, fonts, and logo(s), and ensuring responsive design across various devices. Additionally, I collaborate with clients to understand their needs and provide project updates, manage my time efficiently to meet deadlines, and stay updated on the latest design trends and technologies to deliver contemporary and delightful web solutions.

As a fifth-grade special ed tech, I support students with diverse learning needs in and out of the classroom setting. I work closely with special education teachers to implement individualized education plans (IEPs) and provide personalized assistance to help students achieve their academic and social goals.

• Created delightful and consistent experiences across public facing LastPass materials, including social sharing images used across 50+ posts and job board postings.
• Lead foundational work towards a robust design system in Figma by designing and implementing 3 new components with 20+ variants each in Figma and the LastPass CMS.
• Grew the LastPass web presence by designing learning resources, helpful articles, legal and trust pages, and pricing pages, among others, with a focus on consistency and SEO value.
• Collaborated with a team of 12 developers and related stakeholders to ensure that the implementation of design components aligned with the UX vision and met functional requirements.
• Conducted user research and interviews to understand user needs, pain points, and behaviors, and use these insights to inform design decisions and improve the user experience.

• Conducted 5 user research studies to understand the needs and pain points of healthcare professionals.
• Directed collaboration efforts across departments to establish a robust in-house design system that optimized healthcare user interfaces, driving a 30% increase in library components and a 7% increase in user satisfaction scores.
• Refined an agency-sourced, custom 230+ icon set to align with the corporation across products in style, construction, and metaphor.
• Wrote and maintained design guidelines for 60 components in Figma.
• Designed graphic content for a design system guidance revision. This included 'Do and Don’t' graphics for each design system component, and a proprietary Visual Anatomy section that leveraged the Figma API to pull up-to-the-minute accurate design data from each design component in the Figma library.
• Collaborated with developers to implement the design system in the company's software applications.
• Implemented creative strategies to communicate the value and benefits of the design system to internal stakeholders and clients.