Stewart McCoy

Stewart McCoy

User Experience Design Intern at Viget Labs

Des Moines, Iowa Area

Current
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
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 2010Present (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 2008August 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 2009July 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 2008August 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 2007April 2008 (7 months)

    copy editing, illustration, graphic design, infographic design, reporting, photojournalism

  • Corporate Manuals Intern

    Wells Fargo

    (Public Company; WFC; Financial Services industry)

    March 2008March 2008 (1 month)

    content management, graphic communications


Stewart McCoy’s Education

  • Iowa State University

    M.A. , Rhetoric, Composition & Professional Communication , 20082010

    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 , 20052008

    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


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Stewart McCoy’s Interests:

user experience, web development, content strategy, rhetoric, journalism, typography

Stewart McCoy’s Groups:

Information Architecture Institute, AIGA, The Society for Technical Communication

  •    Society for Technical Communication
  •    Interaction Design Association
  •    Boxes and Arrows
  •    Information Architecture Institute (IAI)
  •    An Event Apart
  •    User Experience
  •    Viget Labs Staff & Alumni
  •    Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT)
  •    AIGA | the professional association for design
  •    Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication Alumni
  •    Content Strategy
  •    Environments for Humans

Stewart McCoy’s Contact Settings

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  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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