Don Wesley • Senior User Experience Designer • Seattle

My Expertise

I turn complex workflows into engaging and intuitive user experiences for your customers. I am blessed with a conceptual and analytical brain, meaning that I can inspire your customers while working harmoniously with our development team to deliver quality and effective solutions. I can self-manage or direct an entire team through planning, design and final production of a product.

Processes: Waterfall and agile development.

Deliverables: Envisioning, requirements gathering, concept sketches, workflows, wireframes, prototyping, ad-hoc and usability testing, final composites, graphic assets, redlines, and UI specifications.

Products: Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, Microsoft Expression (Blend, Design, and Web), Visual Studio, SharePoint, Visio, and PowerPoint.

Key Recent Projects

CFE / HRIT, Microsoft Corporation: UX designer, staff, Apr 2010 to present.

Annual Process Integration: Successfully integrated two historically disparate user experiences to reduce employee and manager time spent on the annual commitment setting and performance review process. Key innovations include an all-up manager view of the tasks and related statuses of their direct reports, seamless online commitment authoring and management, integrated career development and learning plan, and quick access to employee information and performance history along with contextually related tools and content.

SMSG Readiness Gadget: Solved one of enterprise sale’s most common challenges; how to find useful and timely information in one place while moving through the sales stages. I designed a one-stop desktop gadget that provided training and content sources related to the agent’s sales cycle, products, and competition. Today there are over 4,000 agents regularly using the Readiness gadget to streamline their searches for related content.

HRWeb Homepage: Designed the interaction model and layouts for the new Microsoft internal human resources website, including spotlights for company and org level events, life and career event guide directories, and the ability for employees to ask HR questions that are more specific than the site’s general content can answer.

Dynamics, Microsoft Corporation: UX designer, contractor (Volt), Aug 2009 to Apr 2010.

Online Seller Experience: Created layouts, interaction concepts and interactive prototypes for user testing for Microsoft Dynamic’s online seller experience that connects and processes customer inventory from their ERP system to self-designed or 3rd party online consumer sales environments. Key features designed include marketplace set up and store design, inventory management and pricing, and payment and shipping setup.

MSN, Microsoft Corporation: UX designer, contractor (Aquent), Jan 2008 to Jan 2009.

Project Skye Personal Portal: Participated in the envisioning phase, then carried the design through to final proof of concept for a new MSN personal portal experience, that could be used by partners to co-brand for their own content modules and advertising. Skye was also a sandbox for gadget level security on the web that still enabled gadgets to talk to one another.

Project Skye Gadgets: Envisioned and designed gadgets for the Skye experience which required cross-team collaboration with MSN content groups. The collection of gadgets included weather, stock, news, and gas price locator.

Complete Project History

CFE / HRIT, Microsoft Corporation: UX Designer, staff, Apr 2010 to present.

Dynamics, Microsoft Corporation: UX designer, contractor (Volt), Aug 2009 to Apr 2010.

MSN, Microsoft Corporation: UX designer, contractor (Aquent), Jan 2008 to Jan 2009.

Terex Corporation: UI designer and consultant, contractor (Don Wesley Design), Jun to Aug 2007.

Attenex Corporation: UI designer and consultant, contractor (Don Wesley Design), Mar 2005 to Nov 2006.

GC Direct Corporation: UX designer and consultant, contractor (Don Wesley Design), Feb to Apr 2005.

Primus Knowledge Solutions / ATG: UI designer, contractor (Don Wesley Design), Apr 2001 to Mar 2005.

Streambox: UI designer and consultant, contractor (Martini Design), Oct 1999.

Sierra Online / Havas Interactive: Lead designer, staff, Apr 1999 to Jul 2000.

Audit Services, Microsoft Corporation: UI designer, contractor (ArtSource), Jun 1999.

TransPoint, Microsoft Corporation: UI designer, contractor (ArtSource), Oct 1998 to Jan 1999.

AdvanceOnline: Lead designer and co-founder, staff, Nov 1997 to Oct 1998.

CarPoint, Microsoft Corporation: Lead production artist, contractor (ArtSource), Mar 1996 to Oct 1997.

Community Service

Bremerton High School Art Department Advisory Committee - Bremerton, WA.

Consulting Board Member - 2004-06.

• Helped define program goals and future technologies for the art department.

City of Bremerton Arts Commission - Bremerton, WA.

Chairperson - 2006.

• Helped the City of Bremerton implement their 1% for the Arts program.
• Wrote the guidelines and instructions for artist registry.

Foster High School Vocational Advisory Committee - Tukwila, WA.

Consulting Board Member - 2000-01.

• Helped define program goals and future technologies for the graphic arts department.

United Way Western Regional Symposium - Lake Tahoe, NV.

Visiting Designer - United Way of the Columbia-Willamette Valley, 1997.

• Designed logo and branding.
• Layout and style guide for event program and signage.

Whatcom Center for Early Learning - Bellingham, WA.

Volunteer Designer - 1995.

• Designed logo for W.C.E.L., an organization that helps children with learning challenges.

Education

Western Washington University - Bellingham, WA.

BA in Art - 1991-95.

• Portfolios for graphic design, illustration and painting.
• Ran varsity track and cross-country.

Contact Information

Portfolio - www.donwesley.com
Email - design@donwesley.com
Phone - 360.265.2374