About Me

My name is Kayleigh. I'm a UX designer with a background in photography, user research, design, project management, and web programming. I aim to know the process from start to finish, to better facilitate communication between all teams involved in a project.

I became a designer to help make the world a more user-friendly place. I originally went to college for computer science, but found it too impersonal to connect with. During COVID, I found my way to UX through some graphic design courses and have never looked back.

I love cats, tea, sci-fi books (especially Speaker for the Dead, Project Hail Mary, and iRobot), and am a proponent for the Oxford comma.

A black and white picture of me, Kayleigh! Hi!

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Testimonials

“Kayleigh is one in a million. I’ve been impressed by her ability to learn UX fundamentals with ease. She has translated her engineering mindset into a strategic design thinking approach to building experiences that matter and are both functional and aesthetic.”

Sarah Sheehan

Principle Director, Service Design

Electronic Arts (EA)

Education

2023 - 2025

2020 - 2022

Associates of Applied Science: User Experience Design

Austin Community College

Studied visual design, interaction design, information architecture, responsive web design, and design ideation
Conducted user interviews, usability tests, field observations, A/B tests, competitor analyses, and heuristic evaluations
Learned wireframing and prototyping using Figma
Chancellor's Honor Roll (4.0 GPA)

Web Programming Certificate

Austin Community College

Studied HTML5, CSS3, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, AJAX, MVC architecture, and frameworks including CodeIgniter
Chancellor's Honor Roll (4.0 GPA)

Photographic Retouching Certificate

Austin Community College

Studied retouching in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.
Specialized in retouching studio advertising photography.
Chancellor's Honor Roll (4.0 GPA)

Software Skillset

Figma / FigJam

Trained with rapid prototyping, team collaboration, and auto layout capabilities.

Adobe Photoshop

Trained with advanced photo editing techniques for advertising photography.

Microsoft Office

Trained in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook.

Optimal Workshop

Experience with Optimal Workshop's card sorting and TreeJack features.

Miro

Experience using Miro boards for classwork collaboration and individual assignments.

Canva

Experience using Canva for graphic designs and layouts for personal projects.

Google Drive

Experienced with Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Gmail.

GitHub

Experience using GitHub with personal repos, GitHub Classroom, and GitHub Pages.

Design Skillset

Content Audits

Experience with conducting information architecture inventories and audits using web crawlers.

Usability Testing

Experience with guerrilla usability testing to quickly glean how well users interact with designs.

Interaction Design

Experience with designing for user interaction, including prototypes, flows, animations, and micro-interactions.

Affinity Mapping

Experience with grouping data from interviews by affinity for easier parsing and pattern recognition.

Wireframing

Experience creating low, mid, and high fidelity wireframes on Figma, both from scratch and using UI kits.

Card Sorting

Experience designing and conducting both moderated and unmoderated card sorts.

Customer Personas

Experience creating customer personas to empathize and determine user struggles and successes.

Rapid Prototyping

Experience with rapid prototyping via sketches, low fidelity wireframes, and high fidelity prototypes.

A/B Testing

Experience conducting A/B testing to gain a quantitative understanding of redesign affects.

Programming Languages

JavaScript

Experience using JavaScript and jQuery for personal websites / client side validation.

HTML 5

Experience using HTML for personal websites, with emphasis on accessibility and screen readers.

Java

Experience using Java in educational settings, with knowledge of Object Oriented Programming techniques.

PHP

Experience using PHP for personal websites using MVC and CodeIgniter.

CSS 3

Experience using HTML for personal websites, with emphasis on responsive design.

MySQL

Experience using MySQL in educational settings for queries and database management.