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Denise Fafette

User experience designer

Accessibility, curiosity, and coffee drive my designs 🎧

Contact information

📧 denisefafette@gmail.com 🎒 denise-fafette@webflow.io 🗓 [Calendy link] (https://calendly.com/denisefafette)

Experience

Build Week Program UX Lead and Project Manager

Lambda School, April 2019 - January 2020

Managed 24+ product design handoffs for 89+ engineering teams

  • Collected and analyzed 600+ surveys to identify top 3 pain points
  • Implemented solutions to increase student experience scores by 10%
  • Mentored UX Section Leads and UX Teams leads
  • Advocated for the UX design student pain points and goals with cross collaboration team

Design, Strategy and Social Media Consultant

Fafette Design Solutions, April 2017 – Present

  • Sausalito Sister Cities: Developed the Board and 3 Sister City Councils online strategy
  • Berkeley Education Global Research Initiative: Designed STE(A)M education framework
  • Oxford Day Academy: Led the integration of the network, iPads, Chromebooks and LMS in 60 days
  • 100% successful implementation on time for the founding Oxford Day Academy cohort
  • Oxford Day Academy: Engaged hundreds of stakeholders increasing student applications by 200%

Co-founder

Cubit/Qfusion Labs, March 2016 – March 2017

  • Developed personas, user stories and product stories driven by user research surveys and interviews
  • Led stakeholder workshops with engineer and sales teams
  • Led the successful product pivot to education market and second seed round of $1 million

STEM Coordinator and Tech Lead

SFUSD, June 2015 – February 2016

  • Engaged IDEO + stakeholders to ideate Makerspace features
  • Managed 1:1 technology integration and professional development serving over 200 students and educators
  • Exceeded 85% symposium participation targets

Projects

Product Designer - Budget Blocks

  • May 2020 - July 2020
  • Led product discovery and design with a team of 2 Data scientists and 7 engineers
  • Designed UX content and information architechture with Data Science and Web BE
  • Iterated wireframes and protoypes from user interviews, usability testing and design crits

Creator, Lead UX Designer - Firefly

July 2019 - September 2019

  • Wrote the project scope statement required to gain approval to develop project Firefly
  • Led the product discovery and design with a team of 2 designers and 8 engineers
  • Led user research and user testing to refine product features
  • Iterated wireframes and prototypes based on ethnographic studies and mentor crits

Skills

User Research + UX/UI Design + Wireframing + Prototyping + Usability Testing

Tools

Sketch + Figma + InVision + HTML + CSS + JavaScript + React

Education

UX Design - Lambda School User Experience + Web Development

MA, Stanford University Education - Biology Credential

BS, Sonoma State University Biology, minor in Chemistry with Distinction

BA, Pennsylvania State University Advertising