Zen, a non-binary person in a blue and white striped collared button-up shirt with very short dark hair with bleached tips, looks to their left in front of a white wall.
(they/them)
product designer living in Atlanta
goals for 2023 - Build my somatic coaching & workshop practice further
looking for: remote product design openings with inclusive values
offering: 12+ years of product design experience in ux, visual design, front-end, illustration
contact: ๐[email protected] | 404-452-2070 | ๐ฆ@tobamese
Design systems
since 2014, my front-end engineering & designer skills got focused on making tools to free up designers and developers from fussing with design choices we'd rather just make once.
Delta Design Systems
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๐ก "Since Figma has an API..." was my most used phrase of 2019
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Delta
Homepage
Customer Experience
Kiosk Library
older work
Campusbubble
Careerbuilder
Deloitte (pending NDA responses...)
Work experience
- Senior User Experience @ AKQA (Jan 2018 - present)
- Senior User Experience @ Deloitte (2017-2018)
- Senior UX Engineer @ Careerbuilder (2015-2017)
Education
- BFA in Painting from Columbus State University (Dec 2012)
Community
I grew accustomed to being the only non-male, non-white person back when I was also the youngest person. It sucked. Now I'm not always the youngest senior member of a team & with the boldness of an Elder Queerโข๏ธ I do my part to make sure folks notice the voices missing when we fail to build inclusive teams.
organizing
- Friends of Figma, Atlanta group founder (formerly Figma ATL)
- Design.Systems ATL co-organizer
- queer.tech mentor & board president
- Southern Fried Queer Pride organizer
- QTJAC Queer Transformative Justice Atlanta Collective founder member
some talks
Skills
I can (and do)teach
- Tools: Figma, Miro, After Effects, Webflow, Notion, Principle, Framer Axure. Adobe XD, Illustrator, Photoshop
- UI/UX rapid prototyping, mapping, strategy, research
- practical user research methods
- strategic collaboration methods
- public facilitation & storytelling
- accessibility with a disability justice lens
- Gender, sex, race, cultural inclusivity with an intersectional transfeminist lens
I love investing time in
illustration
- so much self-help
- Misc tools for just about everything
- "sure I'll volunteer to run/ speak at/attend your community event"
- creative leadership & workshop facilitation
- maintaining my curious & critical eyes ๐
- data viz & animation
- reading the titles of letterboxd lists
- thinking about chatbots (dialogflow)
- Twine games
- Kumospace creative reviews
- Reading books