Senior UX Design System Architect
shopping.com
April 1, 2009
October 30, 2011
Problem Statement
Product and Engineering teams lacked a cohesive style guide and component library, negatively impacting sprint efficacy.Overall team productivity was down, we were spending too much time fixing recurring bugs and duplicating engineering effort.
Goals
- Reduce duplicate work and make valuable sprint time more productive
- Author first ever company styleguide at speed and scale
- Make overall process more efficient, productive and humane.
Design Research
- Interviewed all senior stakeholders to find out what is wrong
- Summarized findings into project scope definitions
- Organized timely project milestones, review sessions, meetings.
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I authored all iterative preliminary design assets and reviewed them with team.
Design Process
- Met regularly with design and product team to evaluate progress.
- Regularly posted progress for review.
- Curated final specifications into final pdf.
I authored all final design specifications for engineering.
Successful Outcomes
- Reduced repetitive UI bugs and improved sprint burn down rate.
- Improved morale overall by delivering simple design guides and cultural reference points.
- Created scalable design framework at scale.
KEVIN KEIPER
UX Director + Design System Architect
415 926 1935
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SKILLS
Coaching, mentoring, guiding, volunteering, vocalizing, optimizing, critiquing, collaboration, organization.
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley
BA Interdisciplinary Studies
The New School - Parsons
MA Media Studies + Design
(currently completing online 2022)
(currently completing online 2022)