Jory H.

About

I am an end-to-end product designer living and working in Los Angeles. I have a comprehensive background in interaction design, user research, and interface design, with experience in community wiki authoring products, personalization initiatives, and designing for large user bases. I have contributed to major projects in the tech and genealogy industries, holding roles that bridge design and engineering.

Experience

• Staff Product Designer · BioRender2024-09-01 –
• Staff Product Designer · Podium2022-04-01 – 2024-08-01
• Staff Product Designer · Fandom2020-10-01 – 2022-04-01

  Working on community wiki authoring products and personalization initiatives. Launched updated global wiki experience across 30 Million pages of content. Designed and shipped new theming tools, on-boarding flows, and system components; enabled new dynamic theming capabilities. Design lead on content discovery & engagement efforts.

• Senior UX Design Manager · Inkling2019-06-01 – 2020-09-01

  Managed team of UX designers, UX Research, and UX Technologists. Implemented UX technologist role to better align product & engineering initiatives. Overhauled design process for better Agile workflow support. Design lead in customer and user research on product pivot strategy, shaping product road-map.

• Principal Designer · Inkling2017-12-01 – 2020-09-01

  Principal designer for flagship learning, and workforce management products. Principal designer and implementation lead for design system. Lead system wide UI overhaul with an emphasis on WCAG compliance.

• Senior Product Designer, DNA · Ancestry.com2014-04-01 – 2017-12-01

  Designed and shipped four new flagship products in new and established markets to over 4 million users; 2 patents granted. Design lead in early ideation and requirement gathering, design partner in regulated user research and testing and final polish. Design lead in collaborative team with data science & genetics to design queries and shape ontological systems for users, user data, and UGC. Member of recruiting and mentor cohort for internship program.

• Product Designer · Ancestry.com2011-12-01 – 2013-04-01

  End-to-end designer on core family history product team, rolling product to over two million annual users, working closely with Director of User Experience. Junior project manager for core product team, conducted user interviews and usability testing sessions, art directed creative treatments for public facing support materials on experimental main-stream product.

• Lead Designer, Marketing · Utah Valley University2007-01-01 – 2011-08-01

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