User Experience Manager for Brands, Sites & Software
Kansas City, Missouri Area
- Current
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- Experience Director at We Heart Studios, LightThread LLC
- Partner at Twitterface
- Past
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Kristi Colvin’s Summary
Interface design and usability improvement as part of an overall user experience plan for software products and sites, plus branding and marketing for product and service-based organizations.
Kristi Colvin’s Specialties:
Brand design, product integration, visual standards and guidelines, user-friendly software improvements, user experience for sites & software
Kristi Colvin’s Experience
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Experience Director
We Heart Studios, LightThread LLC
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
Creative ideation, brand development and design for people, products, companies & causes. Several ventures: We Heart provides design and coding services for clients, and Twitterface is a business-focused Twitter client.
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Partner
Twitterface
(Computer Software industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Creator of Twitterface, a business-focused Twitter client for the web, designed and developed by Kristi and Adil Soni, a former colleague at Sigmaflow. Twitterface.com launched as a public beta July 1, 2009.
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Partner/User Experience
Fresh ID
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2002 — March 2009 (6 years 6 months)
As Partner of Fresh ID, Kristi (Sadler) Colvin has created business communications since 1993 for leading software organizations and small-to-medium size start-up companies. From a foundation in print design and retail visual merchandising, she added web site design, user interface design (gui design + information architecture + branding + usability) and human factors research to her creative skill set and now specializes in user experience planning for software and sites.
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User Experience Manager
SigmaFlow
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 8 months)
As user experience manager for SigmaFlow, Kristi was responsible for defining both the corporate and the product line branding and creating brand standards for everything the prospective customer or user sees. She designed and maintained the corporate web site, designed a new enterprise web-based application, redesigned existing products and developed many unseen prototypes for product redesigns and new product ideas. (SigmaFlow is now a client of Fresh ID.)
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User Experience Manager
PentaSafe
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years )
While doing consulting for PentaSafe, Kristi was asked to establish the User Experience department within the R&D organization, to build a passion for user experience across the entire organization. She built a usability lab, managed staff and took responsibility for the product design, documentation, usability and packaging for the VigilEnt product line, a cross-platform, integrated security solution designed for large enterprise environments.
