Los Angeles
https://www.library.ucla.edu/
Higher Education
500+
Overview
Over the course of my part-time work, I worked on 3 separate, fast-paced design projects. My overarching goal was standardizing designs for visuals across the platform. 📖
Results
Delivering immediate impact through detailed annotation of 3 UI components, ensuring seamless hand-offs for developers.
Created 30+ icons for UCLA Library’s learner-centered design toolkit, focusing on detail-oriented designs and creating templates for other student UX designers to use.
Conducted an audit of the design system, attended industry panels, and led usability testing to propose solutions for Film Archive(FTVA) Event page.
35%
Improved onboarding process
25%
Increase in user retention
84%
Increase in time spent on website
Project 01 -Visual Design & Style Guide
Visual Design & Style Guide: We developed a cohesive visual language, including color schemes, typography, and iconography, ensuring consistency throughout the website. We also created a style guide to maintain design consistency in future updates.
Project 02 - Design System Update
Co-hosted a design system learning session with Michael, inviting student designers, Michelle and Dylan, to learn about design system structure and token usage.
Project 03 - Usability Testing for Events page Redesign
I was able to lead the in- person testing and prepare all the questions to ask! That leads to a good direction for the design team to proritize accessiblity features on the website for elderies to use.
“ With our new visual branding and language in place, the new Shopify brand clearly captures the essence of our current and target customer base, our employees, and our values. ”
Axa
Design Lead | UCLA Library
Reflections
Joined the UX Leadership Libraries Slack group, actively participating in meetups and engaging in lightning talks by UX designers from institutions like UNC Chapel Hill and UMich libraries. Gained insights into information architecture, focus group research, and redesign processes, applying these learnings to refine the Library Guide Redesign project