Melody Hughes
Mission-driven UX Designer & Researcher with a flair for creative thinking and compassionate collaboration.
Brooklyn, NY · 30-40 hrs/week
About
I have always been enchanted by design. Growing up, I designed games and stories that added whimsy to everyday life. As a teacher, I designed learning experiences that helped students achieve academic and personal growth. Now, as a UX Designer, I design user experiences that create harmonious relationships between people and technology. Design gives us the power to construct reality -- this is why I’ve always been drawn to it! I’m passionate about product design because I want to construct a reality where technology improves our lives and drives social change. I focus on products rooted in empathy, empowerment, and innovation.
Skills
Experience
- UX and UI Content Contributor · Codecademy01-31-2022
Equip a global audience of learners to understand vital UI / UX topics by generating engaging text, visual, and video resources. Craft model design deliverables (interview guides, personas, research reports wireframes, interactive prototypes, etc.) by collaborating with editors and SMEs, leveraging design principles, and staying up-to-date on industry trends.
- UX Design Lead · Solet02-06-2023 – 04-10-2023
Scope and implement research and design process. Cultivate collaboration that equips the team to transform requirements and research into compelling designs that align with Solet’s vision. Oversee user research and usability testing to gain actionable insights about user needs, behaviors, and frustrations in the problem space.
- UX Researcher · Tech Fleet10-21-2022 – 01-27-2023
Leveraged user interviews, surveys, and usability testing to validate features and propose iterations on a web-based community portal. Identified actionable insights for updating the design to better match user expectations and needs.
- UX Designer · Upper Neighbor06-13-2022 – 09-02-2022
Increase usability of music lesson app by revising information architecture, defining simplified user flows, and leveraging usability testing to refine a new prototype. Update aesthetic to support usability by revising visual hierarchy, applying accessible colors, and balancing text with imagery.
- UX Research Apprentice · Peppercorn AI04-12-2021 – 07-12-2021
Charted scope for strategic user research study that aligned with the product goals, research questions, and project resources. Designed and implemented user interviews and surveys, which yielded powerful data insights about the primary persona for the company’s career coaching product.
Education
- CareerFoundryBootcamp, UX Design Certification
- CUNY Brooklyn CollegeGraduate Degree, Education
- Hope CollegeBachelor's Degree, English
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