Aj McClary

About Aj McClary

This is who I am: • User Experience Designer, Information Architect, and…

Experience

1. Web Strategist

   Solarswift

   Jan 2001 — Present

   I am a User Experience Designer and Information Architect. I work as an independent consultant for many high profile projects that have a core need for user-centered design. Utilizing user experience design methodologies, information architecture, content strategy, heuristics analysis, and usability testing, I specialize in building software that customers love to use.A key advantage of working with me is that I’m actively involved in every step of the software development lifecycle, working with users during design, implementation, testing, and O&M. I also have a background in front-end development, so I can actually implement the solutions I design—a rare commodity among UX consultants. Key Results:• Successfully implemented heuristics analysis, usability analysis, and UI design for four multi-million dollar web development projects. All have resulted in products that are highly accepted by their user base and some have even been used as a model for other projects I wasn’t involved in.• Involved in the web development and design of over 80 thriving small businesses across the country.Here are some the services I offer: cognitive walkthroughs, contextual inquiry, user interviews, usability testing, usability inspection, content strategy, surveys, focus groups, collaborative/joint design, card sorting, functional design, interaction design, user research, visual design, heuristics evaluation, web design & development.I also generate design artifacts, such as prototypes, personas & segmentations, scenarios & capability needs, wireframes & functional schematics, content inventories & sitemaps, taxonomy, style, & consistency.

Education

• University of Maryland

  BS

Skills

• User-Centered Design
• Wordpress
• Usability Engineering
• Javascript
• Interaction Design
• Twitter
• Html5
• After Effects
• Online User Experience
• Video Blogging
• Photoshop
• Cross-Browser Compatibility
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Web Design
• Drupal
• Visio
• Prototyping
• User Interface Design
• Qualitative Research
• Omnigraffle
• Section 508
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Personas
• Heuristic Evaluation
• Facebook
• Dreamweaver
• User Experience Design
• Final Cut Pro
• SEO
• Card Sorting
• Css
• Public Speaking
• Taxonomy Development
• Contextual Inquiry
• Infusionsoft
• User Experience
• Content Strategy
• Jquery
• Email Marketing
• Xhtml