2023 freestyle award, Slalom
In an effort to further establish her design leadership voice, foster the design mentor/mentee community within XT and to upskill XT members in UX design and Figma, Michelle organized a 10-week XT Design Curriculum with excellent team engagement and rave reviews from the team. The framework/model Michelle created is already being leveraged by others on the team for additional training/upskilling. Lindsey Barron, Principal
Kinetic Advantage
You did a great job in managing your work stream.
1. You were immeasurably helpful in onboarding the development team since you were on the project during the design phase.
2. We are grateful to have you as you helped answer design questions promptly and worked with both SO and developers to flesh out requirements and adjust the design, if necessary.
3. Your attitude every day was incredible. You are super humble. You take good feedback. I mentioned something, and you proactively asked, “how can I do better?”
4. You quickly assimilated to how to work with your design in a project’s development phase. You were to collaborate on how we could adjust our design to ensure we didn’t lose quality and meet our timelines.
5. You took ownership of QAing the application and creating design bugs for our developers to work on.
Many examples like this make you an incredible and valuable asset to any team you are on.
You were an invaluable member of the team. The success of the Kinetic Advantage project wouldn’t have occurred if it wasn’t for you. Your meticulousness and attention to detail kept the quality of the design and the developers accountable. You were also a trusted advisor to me on the project. I appreciated your willingness to support me anywhere possible and our candid conversations. You were supremely easy to work with because “you get stuff done,” and you are teachable. Tony Lee, Senior Architect
Kinetic Advantage
Michelle is wonderful to work with on a project. Orders of magnitude of design awareness and harmonic style in balance with the overall project objective. Michelle continuously brings light to the product each feature sprint we are on. August Sturm, Senior Developer
Medtronic
“Michelle’s efforts as the UX designer on the Robotics Portal Mobilization project were instrumental in driving excitement and clarity with our clients. Michelle worked diligently with the team, client UI resources, and client stakeholders to capture the MVP requirements and visually demonstrate the experience for physicians. She did this through asking smart questions (e.g. I think this is my understanding, can you please confirm) and partnering closely with the client UX resource so that MDT brand and style guidelines were addressed. In the end, Michelle went above and beyond the 5 screens committed to in the SOW by designing the end-to-end experience and over 20 screens in Figma. Her efforts will set out team up for success and went a long way in setting expectations and driving excitement for the MVP with our clients.” Ross Hendrix, Account Lead
Graebel relocation Services
“Thank you Michelle for your hard work and design expertise on the Graebel Benefit Selector initiative. The client stakeholders were impressed with your strong output from the kickoff. This project had a very condensed timeline and little room for unexpected changes, you helped ensure we gathered timely feedback and quick turnaround for design updates. Would love to work with you again in the future.” Kim Jordan, Product Owner
Centura Health
“Michelle – I want to thank you SO MUCH for all your help over the past several weeks. You’ve jumped in to support a variety of requests. You helped make a beautiful presentation for senior leadership at Centura to help share the story of our digital transformation. You volunteered immediately and then always followed through with your commitments. You transformed lots of ugly screen shots and a dump of content into a masterful story. Thank you! Sarah Reynolds, Director
Spectrum Telecommunications
“Michelle was an absolute rockstar from day one when joining the Spectrum.net redesign experience. Within the first week, Michelle was leading feedback working sessions with the client. She was able to quickly understand the client’s needs & develop high-quality solutions. Michelle has a talent for quickly identifying the “best fit” across a multitude of ideations. A great example from this project was her work on the filtering pattern within the client’s experience. Part of our work with Spectrum was identifying key patterns, proposing solutions & finally design/documenting those patterns. Michelle identified how the client was using filtering within multiple experiences across the site. She took those identified use cases & provided a singular solution that could scale up or down depending on the use case. This was no easy feat as it involved facilitating multiple points of view across several product teams to align on a base pattern that could flex as needed in the future.” Seth Hilson, Senior Designer
Digital Twin presentation
“I was blown away with the quality of her work! She didn’t just paint by numbers the slides – she created a design system that guides the user through the content and a standard format for each section of the presentation. She also did a great job up-skilling on the subject matter. We are now setup to bring a strong POV on Digital Twins to our clients! Thank you Michelle.” Jeremy Conkin, Director
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