Aryk

About

I am a Denver-based multidisciplinary product designer specializing in user research, UX and interaction design. I have extensive software/tech background, product design leadership, real world design experience, and software lifecycle experience. I am passionate, collaborative, a critical thinker, a design thinker, and a communication facilitator.

Experience

Lead PRODUCT DESIGNER

The Boeing Company / Jeppesen 
April 2019 - Present

• I’m working on some pretty cool stuff: airline collaborative tools, autonomous drone piloting, pilot checklist tools, and more.

SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER

MedBridge 
August 2018 - March 2019

• Conducted competitive analyses, heuristic evaluations, process mapping, user interviews, and observational studies to inform product strategy and designs.

• Produced deliverables at all stages of design, including storyboards, wireframes, user flows, interactive prototypes, and pixel-perfect assets for web and mobile.

• Worked with product managers, software engineers and other teams responsible for defining product direction, owned the design execution, and measured ongoing improvements.

• Presented to leadership and stakeholders, to share progress and ensure product vision alignment.

PRINCIPAL DESIGNER | Cofounder

in8development, Inc. 
Jan 2016 - August 2018

• Creative and product leader for all of in8development’s corporate initiatives.

• Established design pattern, component, interaction, and style libraries.

• Conducted user and market research, interviewed stakeholders, documented pain points, conducted heuristic evaluations of potential competitors.

• Used research to drive concept designs, iterations, final mockups, and specs.

• Worked with development teams to deliver MVP and beta applications.

• Led investor meetings, raising ~$1 million in capital over two funding rounds.

Chief UX Designer

The Boeing Company
September 2014 - June 2017

• Led the UX and front-end development teams for Boeing’s massive $54 million, 3-year redesign of their maintenance data delivery web and mobile apps.

• Founded their Customer Advisory Board; a cross-functional, collaborative partnership with 17 airlines. Ran workshops to inform user-centered design.

• Used research to ideate, mockup, and prototype designs. Usability tested with end users and iterated on their feedback then delivered specs to development.

• Part of a cross-functional, company-wide team that standardized pattern libraries and visual design experiences across the major device platforms.

Deployment Manager

The Boeing Company
February 2006 - Sep 2014

• Conceptualized, researched, designed, and prototyped what became Boeing’s award-winning mobile app suite, used by more than 100 airlines globally.

• My team coordinated mobile device readiness, ensured infrastructure readiness, built multi-year project plans, and conducted instructor-led trainings.

• Successfully entered multiple 787s into revenue service using our apps.

• Designed training material, computer-based courses, application reference material, marketing collateral, and organization-level graphic design projects.

Skills

DESIGN

• Design Research

• Wireframing

• Storyboarding

• Idea Generation

• Mobile App Design

• Responsive Web Design

• Interaction Design

• Usability Testing

• Journey Mapping

• Ethnographic Studies

• Rapid Prototyping

• HTML5 / CSS3

PRODUCT

• Pragmatic Marketing Certified

• Agile/Scrum (SAFe) Certified

• Market Research

• Software Development Lifecycle

• Competitive Analysis

• Workshop Facilitation

• Design Thinking

Tools

• Sketch

• Adobe XD

• Illustrator

• Photoshop

• InVision

• Zepplin

• Balsamiq

• Principle

• Framer

Education