KEVIN KEIPER  Staff Product Design Professional

Senior UX Design System Architect

shopping.com
April 1, 2009
October 30, 2011

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Product and Engineering teams lacked a cohesive scalable style guide and component library, negatively impacting sprint efficacy. 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 initial company style guide at speed and scale.
  • Make application deployment process more efficient, productive and humane.

DESIGN RESEARCH

  • Interviewed all senior stakeholders to discover performance gaps and optimization opportunities.
  • Summarized findings into project scope definitions.
  • Organized timely project milestones, review sessions and design cycles.
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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 high fidelity design specifications for engineering.

SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES

  • Reduced repetitive UI bugs and improved sprint burn down rate, greatly increasing UX stability and brand value.
  • Improved morale overall by delivering simple design guides and cultural reference points.
  • Created scalable design framework improving sprint efficiencies by 30%.
SKILLS
  • Results-based Mentoring
  • Relationship Journey Maps
  • Design Thinking
  • Design Strategy + Systems
  • Opportunity Definition
  • Figma
  • UX Automation Strategies
  • Consensual Leadership
  • JIRA Agile Methods
EDUCATION
  • UC Berkeley | BA Humanities
  • THINKFUL | Front End Certificate