Hi, I’m Jaylyn
Here’s Some Info About Me
Bio
I love working with business stakeholders, technology resources, and end users to find a balance between business goals, technology constraints, and user needs. I believe in being an advocate for the users, but seeing all sides of a problem helps bring about more creativity in solving it. Complex problems are my favorite problems and my design mantra is to create something simple and usable. I also enjoy getting to step back and look at the big picture of a users journey to find those pain-points that need to be addressed and if I’m lucky, getting to help solve them.
I’ve been a UX designer for over 10 years and I’ve worked as a consultant for most of those years. Consulting has allowed me to tackle design challenges from lots of different industries and perspectives. It’s been an amazing experience, and I’m looking to continue to be part of a team working together to improve an existing product or creating something fresh and new.
Skills
User Research
I have experience doing many different research activities and can create the testing plans, write the guides, conducted the interviews, facilitate the testing, and present the findings as a report or presentation.
Interviewing
Surveying
Observing
Personas
Presentations
Journey Mapping
Card Sorting
User Interface (UI) Design
Experience with many different software applications and have on-the-fly learned new ones as needed. I currently prefer designing in Sketch, Axure, or Adobe Xd, but I’ve also used draw.io, UXPin, Mural, and Powerpoint as needed.
Sketching
Wire-framing, Hi and Low Fidelity
White-boarding
Prototyping
Design Specifications
Style Guides
Web Design
I have experience both creating and modifying existing code, including HTML, CSS, JS, and JSON languages. I also have experience with jQuery and Bootstrap libraries.
Responsive Web Design
Troubleshooting
QA Testing
Dev Tools
Modifying Existing Code
Endorsements
“It was a great pleasure working with Jaylyn Dawson on Dish projects. I applaud Jaylyn for her professionalism, her ability to confidently jump into complex project circumstance, and overcome very challenging obstacles. She applies solid user experience principles and methods and quickly learns new skills to support design objectives.
As a user experience evangelist at Dish, Jaylyn skillfully assembled and presented a lunch-and-learn presentation for employees to demonstrate the ‘hows and whys’ of UX. From my professional perspective, Jaylyn Dawson would be a valuable asset to any user experience team and I hope to one day work with her again.” - Daphne Correa, UX Designer
“Jaylyn is a fantastic person, professional, and artist. She made great designs for our event. She is a delight to work with! She's thorough, efficient, understanding, creative and absolutely always professional. She went above and beyond all our expectations. She is just an all around outstanding person and artist. I highly recommend Jaylyn and I am convinced that no matter her venture, she will always be successful.” - Francois Besnier, System Safety Consultant
