Rainbow Dog

Alan Underwood

I'm designing the future. I create human-centered products that delight users and drive business success.

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Featured Case Studies

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Mapping the Customer Journey in Real time with the IBM API Connect Offering Management Dashboard


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Rapid Iteration by Connecting Directly with Users using GitHub and Open Source, Participatory Design

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Shaping the Future with Functional Prototyping



iContact

From 5,000 to 50,000: How we 10xed our customer base and 27xed annual revenue with User Experience by focusing on unit economics at iContact

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Primary Skills

  • User Centered Design
  • Product Design
  • User Research
  • Design Thinking
  • Visual Design
  • 3D Design
  • AI/ML
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Automation

Design Tools

  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Figma
  • Sketch
  • Tableau
  • Fusion 360
  • Affinity
  • Miro, Mural, Lucid
  • Visio, Omnigraffle
  • 3M Post-It® Notes

User Experience

  • Wireframes
  • Mockups
  • User Flows
  • Data Visualization
  • Information Architecture
  • Interaction Design
  • Design Systems
  • Accessibility
  • Inclusive Design

User Research

  • Listening Strategy
  • Storyboards
  • Personas
  • Quant/Qual Research
  • Heuristic Evaluation
  • A/B Split Testing
  • Usability Testing
  • Statistical Analysis
  • In-Product Analytics

Prototyping

  • HTML, CSS
  • Javascript, Node
  • React, Vue
  • Python
  • SQL, MongoDB
  • CI/CD
  • AI/ML
  • 3D Printing
  • Raspberry Pi

Primary Skills

  • User Centered Design
  • Product Design
  • User Research
  • Design Thinking
  • Visual Design
  • Artifical Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Automation
  • 3D Design

Design Tools

  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Figma
  • Sketch
  • Tableau
  • Fusion 360
  • Miro, Mural
  • Lucid Spark
  • Affinity Designer
  • Visio, Omnigraffle
  • 3M Post-It® Notes

User Experience

  • Wireframes
  • Mockups
  • User Flows
  • Accessibility
  • Inclusive Design
  • Design Systems
  • Data Visualization
  • Info. Architecture
  • Interaction Design
  • Prioritization

User Research

  • Listening Strategy
  • Storyboards
  • Personas
  • Quant/Qual Research
  • Heuristic Evaluation
  • Usability Testing
  • A/B Split Testing
  • Multivariate Testing
  • Statistical Analysis
  • In-Product Analytics

Prototyping

  • HTML, CSS
  • Javascript, NodeJS
  • React, Vue
  • Python
  • SQL, MongoDB
  • AI/ML
  • CI/CD
  • Kubernetes
  • 3D Printing
  • Raspberry Pi


Additional Skills

 

Personal Projects

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Awards


Webby award
ADDY award
Society for New Communication Award
STC Award
Moz Award