Julie Silverman

Consultancy in user experience and interaction design for web and mobile at SF Bay Area digital agencies, design studios, and startups. Clients include Microsoft, Barnes & Noble, Wells Fargo, and Toyota.

Applied design thinking tricks to get nine international startup teams in shape for Investor Demo Day as part of a three-month accelerator program.

Developed a UX discipline grounded in Lean methodology for a quickly growing UX department. - Responsible for the experience and design strategy including user and system research, workshops, heuristics, concept modeling, and detailed interaction specification. - Worked with strategists, visual designers, developers, and executive stakeholders on b2b and b2c responsive websites, apps, and large digital ecosystems.

Design lead for an internal company-wide knowledge management and publication system. - Lead design through the entire product lifecycle, from initial explorations of user needs through multiple stages of UX and final visual design deliverables - Managed the design process, driving decisions, tracking issues, and scoping resource needs and schedules - Produced personas, user maps, low and high fidelity mocks and prototypes, wireframes, styleguides and pseudo-code