Hi! I'm Maria and I'm a UXer.

I help make products and tech usable, enjoyable, and accessible for humans.

About Me
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About Me

20+ years of UX experience

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I know that behind every successful product is a great user experience. UX design focuses on having a deep understanding of users, what they need, what they value, their abilities, and their limitations. UX design also takes into account the business goals and objectives of the company. It's a delicate balancing act.

  • Create intuitive designs
  • Validate and test designs with users
  • Present and sell designs to the business
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner
  • Scrum team experience
  • Advocate for the user

My main focus is Enterprise User Experience (Enterprise UX). I design software to help enterprise employees do their jobs more happily and effectively.

Large Corporations

Projects

Years UX Experience

Certifications

Why choose me to lead your team's UX efforts?

There's a lot more to UX than just the final design. Creating a great experience for everyone means being mindful of accessibility and usability. It also means one needs the ability to successfully collaborate with others including UX researchers, product owners, and developers.

Soft Skills

Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact with people at all levels.

UX Research

Skilled at incorporating insights gathered from user research into designs.

Dev Experience

Hands-on front-end experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MS PowerApps.

I'm located in St. Louis, Missouri

Gateway to the West!

We're famous for the Gateway Arch, Anheuser-Busch Brewery, Soulard Farmer's Market, and lots of other cool places.

And don't forget our food, toasted ravioli, gooey butter cake, and our famous thin-crust pizza topped with Provel cheese!

Case Studies

Most projects I work on are enterprise UX, complex applications that live behind a login. They are also covered by a NDA, so legally, I cannot share. Below are 3 case studies, including one customer-facing project from 2017 that is still going strong.

Logistics Company Operations and Procurement Opporunities App

Logistics Company

Operations and Procurement Opps Project

Training App Landing Page

Communications Company

Stand-alone Training App Project

Rabo AgriFinance Online Credit Application

Rabo AgriFinance

Online Credit Application Project

Fun Stuff

Folks that know me know I love building web sites with Bootstrap!

 

Here are a few sites I built just for fun! A couple are outdated, but still fun.

 

Fun fact! Recipe Kitty was born from a 100-Day Project from my days at Scottrade. My very first Bootstrap web site. Built from scratch, no template! It's how I fell in love with Bootstrap. I thought I'd get rid of it, but it's a great way to store my favorite recipes, so whenever I have time, I'm going to update it.

Screen shot of MonoTeam Gaming landing page

MonoTeam Gaming

Landing Page

Quickie landing page I whipped up for a friend!

Screen shot of Design Great Products web site

Design Great Products

Personal Web Site

Web Site for Articles

Screen shot of Go Autocrossing web site

Go Autocrossing

Personal Web Site

Web Site for My Husband...the Autocrosser

Screen shot of Recipe Kitty web site

Recipe Kitty

Personal Web Site

My First Bootstrap Web Site

Contact

Want to chat about UX? Great! Let's connect!

Location:

St. Louis, MO

Call:

+1.314.471.3456