Jun 2022 - Present
Brad Thomas
- @bradthomas
- UX / UI / Product Design
- Charlotte, NC
- He / Him
Resume
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Experience Architect (XA), U.S. Bank
Feb 2016 - Jan 2022
Information Architect, Electric Power Research Institute
Portfolio
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Heuristics — or mental shortcuts — ease the cognitive load of decision making. You can read about Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design at https://lnkd.in/eBnb5299 , and Stev...
Started writing my second book. This one talks about how to get past burn out and how to not allow the corporate world to kill your love for design.
Match is MS Awareness month. There are so many people with MS out there struggling to just make it through the day—whether it’s pain, anxiety, depression, fatigue, or loss of cognitive function. Th...
Finished the course on UX Management from the Interaction Design Foundation
Interviews with the Players
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Q&A with Jan Neerincx Sherman Business Analyst What is the hardest part of any web or print project, in your opinion? (There is no wrong answer) The hardest part of a design project is when the cli...
Q&A with Frank Siano Digital Marketing Manager What is the hardest part of any web or print project, in your opinion? (There is no wrong answer) The hardest part of any project is managing budget a...
Q&A with Michael Fetter Marketing Manager What is the hardest part of any web or print project, in your opinion? (There is no wrong answer) I always find the hardest part of any project is the Team...
Q&A with Anoj Kumar Project Manager What is the hardest part of any web or print project, in your opinion? First, understanding and documenting business requirements in detail to a level that work ...
Key Players in the Design Process
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Key Players: The Tester Who is the person that will review and call-out things that aren’t correct? Every project needs a person to review the final product before it is published. Be it a final wa...
Key Players: The Stocker Who will provide the product with what makes it valuable? The role of what I am calling “The Stocker” is one that sometimes gets overlooked. Someone has to ensure that the ...
Key Players: The Builder Who will build the vision the creator comes up with? Building the vision of the Creator is where the ideas become solidified. Sometimes the Builder and the Creator are the ...
Key Players: The Creator Who is the person that will create the vision of what the product should be? What are we building? What is the copy structure? What does this magazine look like? The Creato...
Design Process
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Brad's Design Process Overview After reading my Design Roles, how do they fit together? There is no exact science to getting this 100% correct, but if you follow these steps, no matter how large or...
Every Role is Vital Have you ever heard of the Project Management Triangle? It states, basically, that at each corner of the triangle sit Time, Cost and Quality. You can only have two of those thin...
Design Process: 17) Launch Duties for the Creator There are a few questions that the Creator should have once the site is ready for launch. Are all the final email addresses, phone numbers and soci...
Design Process: 16) Test and Try to Break As the build phase comes to a close, the team will review the development work and make note of what is and what isn’t correctly done. Many developers don’...