UX DESIGNER & RESEARCHER

Hi, I'm Stephen.

I'm a User Experience Designer and Researcher based in Colorado.

What I Do

I practice user-centered design and design thinking to help organizations create value for their users and their business.

UX Design

I create a wide variety of UX deliverables for mobile and desktop platforms, including user journeys, storyboards, wirefames, and visual designs.

UX Research

I'm skilled in generative & evaluative research methods for discovering user needs, understanding user behavior, and communicating insights to teams.

Web & UI Design

I create clean, beautiful visual designs for websites, mobile, and web applications. From responsive designs to highly complex interactions.

Recent Focus

My recent work has been largely focused in the areas of Design Systems, UX Research, and Prototyping.

Design Systems

I went deep into design systems, spending 3+ years building and evolving a highly detailed and intuitive design system for building great products.

UX Research

I spent 4 years conducting UX research within healthcare, recently serving in a contract research role within the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Prototyping

I made extensive use of interactive prototypes for modeling user tasks & interactions, and for user research & testing.

Portfolio

Below is a small collection of design samples from over the course of my career.

Case Studies

Here are a few stories about products that I worked on, and the impact of my work.

Swisslog Delivery Manager / Mobile Web

Generative research, UI/UX design, prototyping, user testing

Swisslog BoxPicker Manager / Web App

User research, UI/UX design, prototyping, design systems

For a detailed look at my career, please check out my LinkedIn profile.

Schoolio Digital Classroom / Mobile Web

Design thinking, design workshops, UI/UX, user research

Swisslog Delivery Manager

The Deliver Manager mobile web app makes it possible for busy pharmacy technicians to easily prepare and deliver medications across large hospital systems.

Pharmacy Medication Delivery / Mobile Web

I started my career doing front-end web development, learning usability principles and design skills as I went.

Swisslog BoxPicker Manager

BoxPicker Manager is an intuitive and efficient interface to a complex medication management infrastructure within large hospital pharmacies.

Pharmacy Medication Delivery / Mobile Web

I started my career doing front-end web development, learning usability principles and design skills as I went.

Schoolio Digital Classroom

Schoolio digital classroom was conceived as the next generation of a K-12 curriculum tool.

Project Overview

I served as the lead UX designer for a number of products while at UCAR, my favorite of which was the Schoolio digital classroom. I facilitated a Google Design Sprint workshop where we reimagined an outdated K-12 curriculum tool as

About Me

A little bit of my story so far.

Background

I started my career doing front-end web development, learning usability principles and design skills as I went.

Experience

I have nearly two decades of combined experience in Web/UI and UX Design. I've served in several lead design roles.

For a detailed look at my career, please check out my LinkedIn profile.

What's Next?

I'm currently searching for my next big career challenge! Healthcare, startup, big tech? Get in touch if you're hiring!

hello@stephentruex.com