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I believe in the consideration of the full experience for the intended audience, from their perspective. UX is as much about empathy building as it is about tools mastery and the ability to articulate the simple solution to a complex problem. Throughtout my years as a UX designer, I've developed set of techniques and tools which I leverage selectively in order to build experiential meaning and true utility.
I have had the great privilege of working alongside a number of extremely talented, highly empathetic User Experience Research professionals at companies like Google, Yahoo!, Salesforce and Grand Rounds. I am able to run a fully user-centered research process from qualitative early insights & secondary research, to ethnographies and field work, user testing, interviews and quantitiative analysis. It's one of my favorite parts of the job.
With the advent of more capable devices — on the desk, in the palm, car, or kitchen — the ability to express the way in which an interaction is meant to unfold has become more important than ever. Tasks, in the end, are made up of combinations of interactions, and each of those interactions needs and deserves due consideration. Animation and prototyping technqiues/tools have improved the level of control over and refinability of a given interaction tremendously, which is a good thing: each of those small, capable computers represent different modalities, contexts of use, and intentionality, all of which require due care.
I think of enabling technologies, frameworks, and languages as tools of the design process (not unlike, say, Sketch). It's imperative to take your idea from a static state (whether whiteboard or hi-fi mock) to a dynamic state where real people can live and interact with it. In addition to prototyping, I can also produce deployment-worthy code to hand to engineering, or work with engineering hand-in-hand to arrive at a particular technical solution. My wheelhouse includes HTML (Bootstrap), CSS/Less, Javascript/Coffeescript (jQuery), Java, Swift, Objective C, React (Native), Python, LAMP and small scale database/schema design/implementation. I'm also a fan of physical prototyping with tools like the Raspberry Pi/Arduino (boy is that stuff fun!).
