Hi! I’m Averie
I am a UX and graphic designer with 3+ years of experience designing engaging, creative, and accessible digital and print tools.
Currently, I am a UX/UI Designer at CU Boulder, working with our UX team to improve the clarity of existing and new campus tools. Daily, I use tools like Figma, Adobe Illustrator, and Qualtrics.
Current Projects!
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House Rules: Digital Paper Games
My senior capstone project I’m developing with Katie Fischer, Lucy Wade, Bailey Shelden, and Adri McCarville to create a customizable digital interface and photo/memory database to allow for paper community games like Fish Bowl and We Aren’t Really Strangers to be played in a web application with unique images and inside jokes.
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Sephora WCAG AAA Audit/Redesign
Semester-long project for Design for Accessibility course taught by Prof. Jonathan Zong. We are doing a WCAG AAA accessibility audit on the current site and completing a full redesign following AAA best practices to maximize accessibility. Conducting user research through usability tests and connecting with accessibility professionals on campus for review.
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Planned Parenthood Redesign
For User Experience 2, I am completing a brand-aware and best practices audit on the existing experience of the Planned Parenthood website in order to increase access to healthcare efficiently, safely, and easily. Creating a professional-level site audit and then performing a redesign as fit.
Featured Projects
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Website Redesign
Conducted user research and iterative design process to update the usability and aesthetic of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s website. Specific focus on the purchasing tickets flow.
Led the visual redesign of a prebuilt product, AppArmor, to tailor the CU Boulder Safe app to the CU student experience. Synthesized user research and collaborated with CU Boulder Police department.
CU Boulder Safe
Gendered Design Conventions in PHI
Individually conducted research into the design conventions of popular Personal Health Informatics (PHI) applications to create a speculative design highlighting the disparities between applications designed for men’s versus women’s health.