@Brooklyn ColMural By James Cochran @akajimmyc

Designs For Humans

Before becoming a UX designer, I solved worked supported the needs of customers in different roles for years, I noticed many of our user’s product issues could have been avoided with an easy, logical UX solution, given the right information in the right place. My experience allows me to understand, anticipate and design for people’s needs. I changed careers to better contribute by directly solving product issues through design.

Nikki D Lopez ~ UX Designer

My Work

My Design Philosophy

Good design is beauty meets functionality. I follow the principles of design thinking, utilizing my vast start up experience to fuel my diverse designs.

  1. Personalize relate to sales
  2. Empathize – Listen to the User
    It takes listening, learning, and research for understanding. My client facing experience has taught me that customers will let you know what makes a product work for them. When updating an existing design customer support and client management can be an excellent resource for user feedback.
  3. Define – Turn needs & pain points into insightful actions  
    Listening is more than hearing . It requires taking the time to analyze what insights are useful. In business development I worked closely with product teams to determine what updates would be most beneficial to our clients, the end users.
  4. Ideate – Turn your research into innovative designs
    By challenging my own perspectives and working with stakeholders and team members, we collaborate to design the right product to build out. There are many ways to approach a design. Collaborative creative thinking can result in original designs that best meet the needs of users.
  5. Prototype – Realizing an Idea
    I build flexibility into the core design to facilitate additional and different requirements from diverse user sets. Attention to detail is critical to creating a “finished product like” user experience. By embedding an automated and easily accessible method of capturing user experiences and insights we are able to facilitate the next phase.
  6. Testing
    Functionality, ease of use, and other potential issues are identified and documented by user testing.
  7. Repeat Steps 4 & 5 (if needed)
    Incorporate solutions for issues found in testing to Prototype and Test again.

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