KRISTIN LYNN PORTFOLIO A CURATED COLLECTION OF IMAGES + DESIGNS 1995 TO PRESENT

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1 o print cent o KRISTIN LYNN PORTFOLIO A CURATED COLLECTION OF IMAGES + DESIGNS 1995 TO PRESENT

2 MICROSOFT OFFICE.COM OFFICE SITE (RE)DESIGNS Assistance + Worldwide Services 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.

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4 GRAPHIC DESIGNS MICROSOFT OFFICE.COM USER ASSISTANCE CONTENT ARTWORK 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.

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6 VARIOUS INTRANET SITES 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.

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8 VIGNETTES +CONCEPTS THE PROCESS OF DESIGN Office Online Design Group 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

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10 WHERE MY WEB DESIGN STARTED MICROSOFT OFFICE USER ASSISTANCE ARCHIVES 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.

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12 PHOTOGRAPHY Ongoing LIFE THRU A LENS 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.

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14 PERSONAL ENDEAVOURS Ongoing C EST MOI 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!!!

15 I AM... + 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.

16 THANKS FOR TAKING A PEEK! FIND MORE AT KRISTINLYNNDESIGNGROUP.NET OR CONTACT ME AT KRISTIN@KRISTINLYNNDESIGNGROUP.NET