Ken Spry Designer and teacher with a decade of experience creating and evaluating life-critical and mission-critical applications for mobile, IoT, and other devices. Pro fi cient in IxD, journey mapping, prototyping, design systems, research, and data visualization. EXPERIENCE SENIOR EXPERIENCE DESIGNER KELLY SERVICES 2022-2023 - Led design effort for myKelly, a job seeker- and employee-facing Web application resulting in a seamless user experience that dramatically reduced overhead for underused sites and redundant applications and increased job application rates by 30%. - Created a Web-accessible design system in collaboration with our brand team. Leveraged best practices and generated accessible colors based on our existing brand guide. Implemented Storybook, React, and Figma instances for our teams to use for our marquee sites and applications. - Facilitated journey mapping exercises in Miro with stakeholders. - Researched competitive landscape as well as disparate applications (eCommerce and dating) of design patterns to strategically drive user behavior. - Utilized heuristic evaluations and cognitive walkthroughs to discover potential issues. - Educated the business on UX and how UX can help, from research to prototyping. - Guided design for two native applications being built for Kelly by vendors. UX LEAD RESULTANT 2021-2022 - Managed UX project intake, UX tooling, and design education impacting 100+ developers, product managers, quality analysts, and executives. - Led design for several major clients, including the State of Indiana and State of Georgia, reaching 150,000+ users and impacting policy for eduction statewide. - Led design for a large supply-chain analytics application for intelligence personnel at the United States Department of Defense. Tools included interactive data visualization, information dashboards, forms, and query building tools for data exploration and exporting. - Created and curated theme-able interactive design systems for Resultant using Figma and Framer, saving our clients a combined $350,000. - Wrote proposals for UX research studies and collaborated with our sales team. - Educated clients on the bene fi ts of leveraging best practices and existing design systems and methods. - Created prototypes with extremely tight turnaround times to demonstrate Resultant’s capabilities in order to win sales. SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER KALEIDOSCOPE INNOVATIONS 2017-2021 - Led interactive prototyping and data visualization for IoT closed-loop insulin delivery system at Eli Lilly and Co. - Increased success rate for life-critical tasks from 20% to over 95%. - Obtained a design patent for an intuitive interaction that reduced system bloat by 24%. - Presented designs and human factors fi ndings to executive leadership at Eli Lilly and Co. - Created an interactive, scalable design system using Framer, impacting four products and saving an estimated 1,500+ hours in the fi rst year alone for prototype creation. - Co-designed research studies with internal human factors engineering group. - Utilized heuristic evaluations and cognitive walkthroughs to discover potential issues. - Mentored junior designers. DIGITAL PRODUCT DESIGNER PRYSM 2016-2017 - Harmonized multi-device collaboration and video-teleconferencing experiences for mobile, web, and wall-sized touch displays. - Created and pitched new ideas and priorities with product management. - Presented designs to stakeholders. - Mentored junior designers. SENIOR UX DESIGNER REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE, INC. 2011-2016 - Led design and research for nine web-based biomedical applications, including Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system and mobile experiences. - Used contextual inquiry to understand technologies and work fl ows of patients, physicians, nurses, assistants, and pharmacists and to translate fi ndings into various models and requirements. - Facilitated co-design sessions with stakeholders. - Conducted user interviews, processed results, and created personas. - Conducted moderated usability testing for new features with physicians in a variety of contexts (Emergency, clinic, ICU, etc.). - Obtained a design patent for clinical decision support to mitigate alert fatigue caused by drug interaction alerts. - Built tools for data large-scale data exploration and alaysis, natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning (ML). SKILLS P R OTOTY P I N G • U S E R I N T E RV I E W S • U S ABILITY T ESTING • HEURISTIC EVALUAT I ON • CO G N I TIVE WA LKT HR OUG H • TA S K ANALYSIS • DESIGN SYSTEMS • RE ACT. J S • H TM L 5 • AG I L E M E T H OD OLOG I ES • FIGMA • FRAMER EDUCATION INDIANA UNIVERSITY — INDIANAPOLIS MS HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION 2012 INDIANA UNIVERSITY — INDIANAPOLIS BA ENGLISH AND PHILOSOPHY 2009 https://oksprydesign.framer.website Password: glowing-seat-rest (317) 670-1727