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A CURATED COLLECTION OF IMAGES + DESIGNS | 1995 TO PRESENT

MICROSOFT OFFICE.COM

Assistance + Worldwide Services

www.office.com 2004 - 2011

TECHNOLOGIES

Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, Fireworks,

CMS, HTML, PowerPoint

ROLES

Senior Designer / UX Designer 2

DESCRIPTION

The design of a website from

initial blue sky sketches to vignettes,

concepts, rationalization against goals,

applying business requirements and

then defining a vision that gets refined

and finessed through the iterative

design process is what it’s about.

Redesign is the practice of evolving

and growing the original vision to

satisfy and delight customers based

on new user content models, metrics,

survey, insight, personas and simple

testing. Iteration, iteration, iteration.

O F F I C E S I T E ( R E ) D E S I G N S

MICROSOFT OFFICE.COM

USER ASSISTANCE CONTENT ARTWORK

1995 - 2011

TECHNOLOGIES

Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, CMS,

Product Studio, SharePoint Designer

ROLES

Graphic Artist / Senior Designer

DESCRIPTION

A smattering of graphics I created over

the years for projects in the Microsoft

Office Design Group. From HTML to

Sharepoint-based platforms I designed

Flash-based tutorials, support imagery,

brand and marketing pieces, animations,

and info graphics as well as PowerPoint

and Photoshop-based imagery as well

as advertisements... most for global

audiences using conceptual art and

designs that require less translation

= less cost and less lead time for

worldwide simultaneous releases.

I was also key in creating our global

partner and developer documentation

and tutorial animations, and libraries of

reusable ‘built art’ components.

G R A P H I C D E S I G N S

VA R I O U S I N T R A N E T S I T E S

OFFICE ONLINE DESIGN +

WORLDWIDE CONTENT PUBLISHING GROUPS

SharePoint Intranet sites

DISCIPLINES

SharePoint, HTML, UX, IA, Wire framing,

Prototyping, development deliverables,

process and guideline creation

ROLES

Lead designer / IA / Internal design process

creation + development evangelist

DESCRIPTION

It’s easy to say ‘let’s use SharePoint’ and

then design your site in HTML’ modules but

my team soon realized this wasn’t the best

end result for our users. So we took on the

challenge to design ‘within’ the SharePoint

environment, embrace it and ultimately

presented case studies to build the product

into a much more robust design platform.

We could have taken the easy route but

that isn’t what design evolution is about.

Constraint and parameters are the issues our

clients face - we as UI + UX designers need

to experience that for ourselves to deliver

on the promise of the products we sell.

V I G N E T T E S + C O N C E P T S

THE PROCESS OF DESIGN

Office Online Design Group

2004 - 2011

DISCIPLINES

SharePoint, HTML, UX, IA, Wire

framing, Prototyping, Comp creation,

development deliverables, guideline

creation,

ROLE

Designer / IA / Internal test / Process

creation + site development

DESCRIPTION

Sketches

Vignettes

Collaboration

Refinement

Consensus

IA

Wire frames

Low-Fi Prototypes

Stakeholder Buy off

Design Development

Build / Test / Document / Ship

MICROSOFT OFFICE

USER ASSISTANCE ARCHIVES

1995 - 2004

Internal and defunct sites

examples only

TECHNOLOGIES USED

Photoshop, Flash, FreeHand,

SharePoint Designer

ROLES

Graphic / Web Designer

DESCRIPTION

A smattering of images + info

graphics to demonstrate the long

and fabulously exciting road we

have made since the initial debut

of web design.

It’s not always illustratively

beautiful in today’s standards but

we always pushed the envelope

of the tools we had to hand...

and learned much from those

experimental days.

W H E R E M Y W E B D E S I G N S TA RT E D

PHOTOGRAPHY

Ongoing

Examples at www.

kristinlynndesigngroup.net

or available on request.

TECHNOLOGIES USED

Photoshop, HTML, and my beloved

Nikon, recently my Win 7 phone

as well!

DESCRIPTION

Creativity has always inspired me

- whether photography, design,

graphics, music or travel. I can’t

capture all of the things I wish I

could - but they inspire me and

remind me to appreciate beauty

and good design in ALL forms :)

Photography was my first passion

and will probably remain just that.

L I F E T H R U A L E N S

PERSONAL ENDEAVOURS

Ongoing

www.kristinlynndesigngroup.net

TECHNOLOGIES USED

Photoshop, HTML, Photography

DESCRIPTION

I love all forms of media...

though some I admire from afar

such as music, painting and true

illustration.

I admire those that have the gift and

try to learn and experience life thru

their creative endeavors. I am a media

junkie - concerts especially.... and I

catch every band I can that I know ...

... and sometimes I am luckily enough

to film them too!

I recently started a blog to share my

inspirations and captures, it’s a new

and exciting realm to explore. There is

a new experience around every corner

in this brave new world! Explore!!!

C ’ E S T M O I

+ A passionate observer of all things intrinsically meaningful in daily life, regardless of the medium it’s delivered in. EVERYTHING is designed. Most often bad designs get noticed before well executed designs.

+ A believer that great design isn’t flawless or static; flawed to those that notice and rarely perfect without evolution. Revolution! Bettered by use, input and redesign. A design is never ‘done’... it’s just so delightful at it’s very best when effectively evolved and presented.

+ Driven to improve life’s experiences for everyone, all the time... gaining insight from what’s learned in every single connection to the world... every day. Ask me about the ATM machine. Oh my! So basic.

+ An über-shameless skando + euro impressioned minimalist visual designer at my core. My UX vision of the world is focused on user-centric content but the presentation must be beautiful. usable, relevant and effective.

+ One that believes that form and function are equal & that DESIGN is a noun and a verb. And talks a LOT about it.

+ A massive advocate for great experiences large + small above all else in every single aspect of life... Life is difficult enough - there is no room for bad design.

Let’s make it better... little by little. Iteration, iteration, iteration.

I A M . . .

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