User Experience Consultant
Greater Chicago Area
- Current
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- Principal at Motif, Inc
- Past
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- Director, User Experience at Avenue A Razorfish
- Customer Experience Architect at Scient
- Innovator at E-Lab
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- Education
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- Carnegie Mellon University
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
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Shannon Ford’s Summary
Shannon has over 14 years of experience working to improve user experiences of many types, with skills in design research and usability testing, strategy, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design.
Her experience spans database application software, B2B and B2C web sites, product design, and merchandising design. Over the course of her career, Shannon has worked with companies such as Equity Residential, McDonalds, JCPenney, Discover Financial Services, Jansport, Steelcase, and the Ford Motor Company as well as with non-profit and educational clients such as the Center for Disease Control and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Prior to founding Motif, Shannon was the Director of User Experience for the Central Region of Avenue A | Razorfish, and a Designer and Project Manager at E-Lab, a company known for its innovative use of ethnographic research. She has a Masters’ degree in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University.
Shannon Ford’s Specialties:
Ethnographic user research, interaction design, usability assessment, creative direction, team leadership, thought leadership, creative management
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