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I take a holistic view of product, balancing usability, viability, and feasibility with a focus on how customers, partners, and businesses gain value through the experience.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Overview of Key Projects

Baxter Care Communications

As a senior designer on the R&D team, I led UX from Phase Zero for a new product that aids in caregiver communications. I also designed refinements for three systems of hardware, software, firmware and products with medical device classification to improve caregiver workflow with goals of reducing risk and improving patient outcomes.

New Product Development • Formative Research and Testing •  Human Factors & Ergonomics • Regulatory Compliance • Clinical Workflows • In-Lab Formative Research Assist • Technical UX Requirements Documentation • Sustaining Product Design
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Pew Charitable Trusts

Enhancing the reading experience

• Scrollytelling Enhancements
• Navigation Design and Sub Navigation Architecture
• Component Design
• Accessibility Improvements

Hillrom Precision Locating

Design Improvements to Existing Software

• Icon Design Updates
• Color Palette Updates
• Component UI Updates
• Accessibility Improvements

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Northwestern Kellogg University

Improved the academic department pages and user journey.

• User Interview Script
• Task Flow
• Stakeholder Interviews
• Wireframes
• Component Cleanup

Bausch + Lomb

Designing an ipad sales application for pharmaceutical representatives.

• Sitemap
• Wireframes
• ADA Review

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Sounds True Digital Library

Designed an interface from wireframes for users to easily purchase, consume content and track progress in app and desktop.

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Emerging Technology Design

From conversation design, voice user interface, small screens and prompt engineering my experience is current.

Tara is great at taking complex tasks and turning them into delightful and intuitive user experiences.

She also excels in working cross functionally with product, SME’s, engineers, and upper management. If given the option I would hire Tara again

Jared Klein
UX Manager at Baxter

I saw her rise to meet the challenge of a rapidly growing digital business.

Her user focused solutions were critical to the department's success. She handled diverse & challenging interactions from training new hires, client consultations, to presentations to leadership regularly with ease.

Gary Schomberger
Senior Program Manager,
Legal Shield

I've directly worked with Tara, she's a highly creative designer with an eye for detail.

She constantly contributed innovative ideas in daily meetings and standups, and she was always looking for ways to help others on the team. She was a highly motivated coworker that I really enjoyed designing alongside.

Matthew Scheffer
Senior Product Designer at Baxter
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Defining Attributes

Breadth

Of Industry

Ecommerce, D2C, Regulated Industry, MedTech, Pharma, Physical & Digital Products.

Leadership

Mindset

Graduate of Inner MBA through NYU & Sounds True, and MatrixWorks Leadership Training.

Interface

9+ Years of Visual Design

Expert in Figma, Miro, Adobe, Photoshop, Illustrator, Animation, Dall-e, WordPress, Webflow.

Research

Qual and Quantative

User & Stakeholder Interviews, In-Lab Testing, Remote Recording, Surveys, Field Studies.

Personality

Professional Yet Fun

Generally kind and likable, pretty serious, creative and sometimes silly.

Depth

360° UX

UX Writing, Information Architecture, Heuristic Analysis, Physical Products, and a whole lot of interesting life experience.

Global Brand Design

Tara has served as a senior UX designer for brands primarily in healthcare, e-commerce, non-profit, higher education, and regulated government sectors.

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