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About me

My thoughts on content design

Many people write but few understand the art of communicating. The role of a content designer is unique in that we're the only ones who truly speak to the user.


I design impactful content by incorporating design thinking and business goals to properly guide users. 

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I gain creative inspiration by collaborating with others, sharing experiences, traveling, and studying how humans communicate with technology.

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Experience

2022-2024

Content Designer II

Microsoft

  • Drives terminology decision-making to bring an informed point of view and user experience

  • Expands on design systems by presenting new ideas or filtering to other company products that will optimize the user's task completion

  • Defines needs of product designs and includes them in the end-to-end design plans and process

  • Synthesizes concepts into a concise articulation of user wants and subsequent solutions

  • Supports the integration of User Experience (UX) thinking with design execution to produce usable and intuitive user interfaces

  • Collaborates with product owners and development team members to shepherd end-to-end experiences from concept to product shipment

  • Creates and optimizes sound Information Architecture (IA) for coherent task completion

  • Collaborates with other content design teams to drive coherence

2021–2022

Content Designer I

Microsoft

  • Designed, wrote, edited, and tested clear, compelling in-product language to assist users along their journey

  • Drafted content for end-to-end product flows, for cross-device and developer audience experiences

  • Contributed to high-fidelity design mocks using Figma

  • Collaborated daily with peers across disciplines, including product management,engineering, design, research, marketing and data science, localization, and stakeholders to take products from conception to launch

Education and certifications

2017

Bachelor's of Arts 

Mass Communications & Media Studies Design

Arizona State University

2019

Certification

UX | UI Design and front-end development

Georgia Institute of  Technology

2021

Certification

UX Writing fundamentals

The UX Writers Collective

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2024

Certification

Systems Thinking for UX Content Certification 

The UX Writers Collective

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Podcasting

I enjoy writing scripts for an upcoming podcast called The Peach Files. 

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The Peach Files is a fiction podcast, based on weird things that happen in Atlanta.

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Get in Touch

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