Stewart McCoy

Current

User Experience Design Intern at Viget Labs

Past

Editorial Assistant at Go! transportation magazine
Instructional Designer at Iowa State's Department of Environmental Health & Safety
Graphic Designer at Iowa State University's Center for Transportation Research and Education

Copy editor at Iowa State Daily
Corporate Manuals Intern at Wells Fargo

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Education

Iowa State University
Iowa State University

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Industry

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Stewart McCoy’s Summary

My passion is user-centered design, especially empirically-driven user experience design for the web.

My graduate work focused on professional communication, editorial strategy, and web development.

Stewart McCoy’s Specialties:

professional writing and editing, visual communication, user experience, web development, content strategy, rhetoric

Stewart McCoy’s Experience

User Experience Design Intern

Viget Labs

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

August 2010 — Present (2 months)

First to begin a UX internship with Viget Labs, which has started a 6-week rolling internship program.

Besides completing a curriculum and working under the UX and creative teams, I will have the opportunity to own a project from start to finish.

During my internship as a UX designer, I will define functionality, content, and navigation of web sites through conducting user research and producing design documentation such as sketches, wireframes, prototypes, site maps, user flow, personas, and scenarios.
Editorial Assistant

Go! transportation magazine

(Educational Institution; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

August 2008 — August 2010 (2 years 1 month)

workforce development for the transportation pipeline, feature writing, content strategy, proposal writing, public speaking, direct marketing, social media marketing, web analytics.

As a graduate student writer for Go! I was the recipient of a Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship, awarded by the Federal Highway Administration for both 2008-2009 and 2009-2010.
Instructional Designer

Iowa State's Department of Environmental Health & Safety

(Public Safety industry)

May 2009 — July 2009 (3 months)

instructional design, graphic design, multimedia development, publication design, technical writing.
Graphic Designer

Iowa State University's Center for Transportation Research and Education

(Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

graphic design, visual identity design, publication design, report design, brochure design, copywriting.
Copy editor

Iowa State Daily

(Non-Profit; Newspapers industry)

October 2007 — April 2008 (7 months)

copy editing, illustration, graphic design, infographic design, reporting, photojournalism
Corporate Manuals Intern

Wells Fargo

(Public Company; WFC; Financial Services industry)

March 2008 — March 2008 (1 month)

content management, graphic communications

Stewart McCoy’s Education

Iowa State University

M.A. , Rhetoric, Composition & Professional Communication , 2008 — 2010

Web Design for E-Commerce
Multimedia Content Management
Production Processes for Technical Documents
Visual Communication in Professional Writing
Writing and Analyzing Professional Documents
Theory and Research in Professional Communication
Writing Proposals and Grants
Iowa State University

Bachelor of Arts , Art & Design and Journalism & Mass Communication , 2005 — 2008

Principles of Statistics
Sources of Visual Design
Color Theory
Design Cultures
Multimedia Production
Visual Principles of Mass Communication
Reporting and Writing for Mass Media
Fundamentals of Photojournalism