About
Hi, I'm Xav 👋
I'm a detail-oriented UX designer with a background in writing. I take a flexible and adaptable approach to design, always striving to create intuitive and delightful experiences that address genuine problems and improve people's lives. Constantly curious, my favorite questions are "Why?" and "How?" as I believe in measuring twice before designing once.
Hi, I'm Xav 👋
I'm a detail-oriented UX designer with a background in writing. I take a flexible and adaptable approach to design, always striving to create intuitive and delightful experiences that address genuine problems and improve people's lives. Constantly curious, my favorite questions are "Why?" and "How?" as I believe in measuring twice before designing once.
About
About
Hi, I'm Xav 👋
I'm a detail-oriented UX designer with a background in writing. I take a flexible and adaptable approach to design, always striving to create intuitive and delightful experiences that address genuine problems and improve people's lives. Constantly curious, my favorite questions are "Why?" and "How?" as I believe in measuring twice before designing once.
Hi, I'm Xav 👋
I'm a detail-oriented UX designer with a background in writing. I take a flexible and adaptable approach to design, always striving to create intuitive and delightful experiences that address genuine problems and improve people's lives. Constantly curious, my favorite questions are "Why?" and "How?" as I believe in measuring twice before designing once.
About
About
Hi, I'm Xav 👋
I'm a detail-oriented UX designer with a background in writing. I take a flexible and adaptable approach to design, always striving to create intuitive and delightful experiences that address genuine problems and improve people's lives. Constantly curious, my favorite questions are "Why?" and "How?" as I believe in measuring twice before designing once.
Hi, I'm Xav 👋
I'm a detail-oriented UX designer with a background in writing. I take a flexible and adaptable approach to design, always striving to create intuitive and delightful experiences that address genuine problems and improve people's lives. Constantly curious, my favorite questions are "Why?" and "How?" as I believe in measuring twice before designing once.
About
About
Hi, I'm Xav 👋
I'm a detail-oriented UX designer with a background in writing. I take a flexible and adaptable approach to design, always striving to create intuitive and delightful experiences that address genuine problems and improve people's lives. Constantly curious, my favorite questions are "Why?" and "How?" as I believe in measuring twice before designing once.
Hi, I'm Xav 👋
I'm a detail-oriented UX designer with a background in writing. I take a flexible and adaptable approach to design, always striving to create intuitive and delightful experiences that address genuine problems and improve people's lives. Constantly curious, my favorite questions are "Why?" and "How?" as I believe in measuring twice before designing once.
About
When I'm not designing, you can find me…
Practicing my latte art skills ☕️ 🎨
Playing or coaching table tennis 🏓
Exploring the city of Seattle ☔️
Going for a stone-skipping record
Trying to convince myself to run 🏃
Spilling ink on myself 🖊️
Practicing my latte art skills ☕️ 🎨
Playing or coaching table tennis 🏓
Exploring the city of Seattle ☔️
Going for a stone-skipping record
Trying to convince myself to run 🏃
Spilling ink on myself 🖊️
My Design Process
Practicing a flexible, iterative, and informed design process allows me to ensure final designs align seamlessly with user needs and business objectives. I expect to be wrong many times before I'm right, and continual feedback, testing, iteration, and challenging of assumptions is the key to success. Each project requires a different approach to work within different constraints and overcome new, often unforeseen challenges.
01
Discover
Conduct initial research and brainstorming sessions to identify user needs and business objectives. Understand the scope, constraints, and success criteria of the project.
Define
Gather additional information about the target users, their needs, and market opportunities through user surveys and field activities. Define a specific problem statement based on user insights.
02
Develop
Define the user experience, generating many ideas before refining them through prioritization matrices and iteration. Test and evaluate design concepts against success criteria. Iterate and repeat as necessary.
03
Deliver
Prepare documentation for developer handoff, present designs to stakeholders, and work with developers to ensure (making necessary adjustments for feasibility) as needed.
04
01
Discover
Conduct initial research and brainstorming sessions to identify user needs and business objectives. Understand the scope, constraints, and success criteria of the project.
Define
Gather additional information about the target users, their needs, and market opportunities through user surveys and field activities. Define a specific problem statement based on user insights.
02
Develop
Define the user experience, generating many ideas before refining them through prioritization matrices and iteration. Test and evaluate design concepts against success criteria. Iterate and repeat as necessary.
03
Deliver
Prepare documentation for developer handoff, present designs to stakeholders, and work with developers to ensure (making necessary adjustments for feasibility) as needed.
04
01
Discover
Conduct initial research and brainstorming sessions to identify user needs and business objectives. Understand the scope, constraints, and success criteria of the project.
Define
Gather additional information about the target users, their needs, and market opportunities through user surveys and field activities. Define a specific problem statement based on user insights.
02
Develop
Define the user experience, generating many ideas before refining them through prioritization matrices and iteration. Test and evaluate design concepts against success criteria. Iterate and repeat as necessary.
03
Deliver
Prepare documentation for developer handoff, present designs to stakeholders, and work with developers to ensure (making necessary adjustments for feasibility) as needed.
04
01
Discover
Conduct initial research and brainstorming sessions to identify user needs and business objectives. Understand the scope, constraints, and success criteria of the project.
Define
Gather additional information about the target users, their needs, and market opportunities through user surveys and field activities. Define a specific problem statement based on user insights.
02
Develop
Define the user experience, generating many ideas before refining them through prioritization matrices and iteration. Test and evaluate design concepts against success criteria. Iterate and repeat as necessary.
03
Deliver
Prepare documentation for developer handoff, present designs to stakeholders, and work with developers to ensure (making necessary adjustments for feasibility) as needed.
04
My Design Process
Practicing a flexible, iterative, and informed design process allows me to ensure final designs align seamlessly with user needs and business objectives. I expect to be wrong many times before I'm right, and continual feedback, testing, iteration, and challenging of assumptions is the key to success. Each project requires a different approach to work within different constraints and overcome new, often unforeseen challenges.
01
Discover
Brainstorming sessions in order to take their needs and company goals into account. Define the scope and objectives of the project and lays a fundamental foundation for everything that comes after.
Develop
Define the user experience, test and evaluate design concepts, and analyze how your designs will inform behavior and effect the experience of the user.
03
Define
Gather additional information about the ideal client, market opportunities and design sprint. Getting direct feedback from users themselves through user surveys and field activities.
02
Deliver
Determine design patterns, elements of template pages, different framework options, and work with developers to test design functionality.
04
My Design Process
Practicing a flexible, iterative, and informed design process allows me to ensure final designs align seamlessly with user needs and business objectives. I expect to be wrong many times before I'm right, and continual feedback, testing, iteration, and challenging of assumptions is the key to success. Each project requires a different approach to work within different constraints and overcome new, often unforeseen challenges.
01
Discover
Conduct initial research and brainstorming sessions to identify user needs and business objectives. Understand the scope, constraints, and success criteria of the project.
Define
Gather additional information about the target users, their needs, and market opportunities through user surveys and field activities. Define a specific problem statement based on user insights.
02
Develop
Define the user experience, generating many ideas before refining them through prioritization matrices and iteration. Test and evaluate design concepts against success criteria. Iterate and repeat as necessary.
03
Deliver
Prepare documentation for developer handoff, present designs to stakeholders, and work with developers to ensure (making necessary adjustments for feasibility) as needed.
04
01
Discover
Conduct initial research and brainstorming sessions to identify user needs and business objectives. Understand the scope, constraints, and success criteria of the project.
Define
Gather additional information about the target users, their needs, and market opportunities through user surveys and field activities. Define a specific problem statement based on user insights.
02
Develop
Define the user experience, generating many ideas before refining them through prioritization matrices and iteration. Test and evaluate design concepts against success criteria. Iterate and repeat as necessary.
03
Deliver
Prepare documentation for developer handoff, present designs to stakeholders, and work with developers to ensure (making necessary adjustments for feasibility) as needed.
04
01
Discover
Conduct initial research and brainstorming sessions to identify user needs and business objectives. Understand the scope, constraints, and success criteria of the project.
Define
Gather additional information about the target users, their needs, and market opportunities through user surveys and field activities. Define a specific problem statement based on user insights.
02
Develop
Define the user experience, generating many ideas before refining them through prioritization matrices and iteration. Test and evaluate design concepts against success criteria. Iterate and repeat as necessary.
03
Deliver
Prepare documentation for developer handoff, present designs to stakeholders, and work with developers to ensure (making necessary adjustments for feasibility) as needed.
04
01
Discover
Conduct initial research and brainstorming sessions to identify user needs and business objectives. Understand the scope, constraints, and success criteria of the project.
Define
Gather additional information about the target users, their needs, and market opportunities through user surveys and field activities. Define a specific problem statement based on user insights.
02
Develop
Define the user experience, generating many ideas before refining them through prioritization matrices and iteration. Test and evaluate design concepts against success criteria. Iterate and repeat as necessary.
03
Deliver
Prepare documentation for developer handoff, present designs to stakeholders, and work with developers to ensure (making necessary adjustments for feasibility) as needed.
04
Skills
Skills
UX Design
UI Design
Product Design
Consulting
Design Systems
Design Sprints
Interaction Design
Usability Testing
UX Research
Leadership
Mentoring
Content Design
Writing
Communication
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Wireframing
Rapid Prototyping
Journey Mapping
Problem Solving
Experience
Experience
Freelance UX Designer
Freelance UX Designer
Freelance UX Designer
Various Clients
Various Clients
Various Clients
Jan 2023 - Present
Jan 2023 - Present
Ping Pong Professional
Ping Pong Professional
Ping Pong Professional
SPIN
SPIN
SPIN
May 2022 - Present
May 2022 - Present
Contract Content Writer/Editor
Contract Content Writer/Editor
Contract Content Writer/Editor
SPIN
SPIN
SPIN
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Writing Consultant
Writing Consultant
Writing Consultant
Seattle University
Seattle University
Seattle University
Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
Education
Education
UX/UI Design Bootcamp
UX/UI Design Bootcamp
UX/UI Design Bootcamp
UC Berkeley Extension
UC Berkeley Extension
UC Berkeley Extension
Apr 2023 - Oct 2023
Apr 2023 - Oct 2023
Google UX Design Professional Certificate (1-5)
Google UX Design Professional Certificate (1-5)
Google UX Design Professional Certificate (1-5)
Google Career Certificates
Google Career Certificates
Google Career Certificates
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
BA English Literature (Unviersity Honors Program)
BA English Literature (Unviersity Honors Program)
BA English Literature (Unviersity Honors Program)
Seattle University
Seattle University
Seattle University
Sep 2018 - Dec 2021
Sep 2018 - Dec 2021