Accessibility, curiosity, and coffee drive my designs 🎧
📧 denisefafette@gmail.com 🎒 denise-fafette@webflow.io 🗓 [Calendy link] (https://calendly.com/denisefafette)
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
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%
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
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
- 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
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
User Research + UX/UI Design + Wireframing + Prototyping + Usability Testing
Sketch + Figma + InVision + HTML + CSS + JavaScript + React
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