Over the course of my career in UX, I’ve played key roles on many successful projects for clients in a variety of industries including automotive, entertainment, telecommunications, finance, chemical, health-care, education and others. My clients have included eight Global Fortune 500 companies as well as small startups and everything in between. My philosophy and goal is always to balance optimal usability, innovative design, and the support of business goals.

During my formal education and early experience, I learned the foundations of Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, and sound research techniques directly from pioneers in the field. I pride myself on the ability to merge usability best practices with the rapidly growing advances in Internet technology to serve the users of today.

I serve as President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association (http://www.meetup.com/LA-UPA/) and am active in the UX community.

I am based in Santa Monica, California where I’ve lived for the past seven years. I'm originally from Boston, Massachusetts.

 

Experience

• Thirteen years designing and developing websites and other interfaces
• Eight years conducting user research
  
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Education

• Graduate-level courses in Human Factors, Information Visualization, and User Research Methods (Bentley University, MA)
• Bachelor of Science in Business Communication with a focus on Web and Graphic Design, Marketing, and Management (Bentley University, MA)
• Graduate of the prestigious Boston Latin (high) School, the first public school in the country (Boston, MA)

Organizations

• Usability Professionals' Association (UPA) member; President of the Los Angeles Chapter; reviewed submissions for 2007, 2008, and 2011 conferences
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) member; Special Interest Groups: Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS)
• Information Architecture Institute (IAI) member
• Interaction Design Association (IxDA) member
• Braille Institute volunteer

Related Interests

• Accessibility
• Anthropology
• Digital and Interactive Marketing
• Mobile interface design: web, apps, os and hardware
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
• Social Media
• Web Standards
• XHTML and CSS

"Alexis is one of the best user experience design experts that I've ever worked with. She has an incredible eye for detail. She takes the time to understand the unique characteristics of the end user and designs the customer experience accordingly. She has great instincts and has a highly-professional style that achieves great results. I hope to work with Alexis on future projects."

"Alexis is a top-notch User Experience consultant with a broad knowledge base and consistently executes at a very high-level. Her understanding of usability testing and research methods, combined with her keen sense of good information architecture and optimal usability models has made Alexis an invaluable member of the team. Alexis is a pleasure to work with and I will definitely be working with her again in the future."

"Alexis was a great asset to have for our web project. She was able to balance outstanding communication and client relations while effectively meeting goals and keeping the project on schedule under tight deadlines. I would highly recommend her!"