Design systems

At Nickelodon, I've kept track of due dates, communicated to stakeholders, trained designers, and reviewed final documents. The team size varied from 5-8 during the Audit and Organize phases.

For the Saks/Hudson's Bay/Saks Off 5th guide, I kept component names quite flat, because designers appeared frustrated when they need to drill down using multiple submenus in Sketch.

While at Saks/Hudson's Bay, I showed examples of type treatments in situ, with the name of the type style. Most style guides display a large list of type styles, doesn't give an engineer or designer any understanding of what the rules are surrounding usage.

While working for Capco (a fintech consultancy), their client, UBS released a new color system. After interviewing a UBS financial analyst, I discovered that their charts are color-coded according to how the UBS Client's portfolio is divided up. For example, in a chart or graph, "cash" is always green.

I created new color guidance documentation, keeping in mind that products should be put in front of their user audiences early and often. This streamlined the creative and dev hand-off process.

I designed new icons, where styling was varied and inconsistent. I worked with the Saks brand creative team to implement and organize an icon system and documentation, in order to future-proof any icon creation. As usual, I tend to show the icons in situ in a guidance document.

At Nickelodeon, sample animations and guidance documentation were created for animators to use as reference material. More in-depth documentation was created, (with guidance on timing), so that any animator could pick up a ticket and start working.