Chris Geyer

UX Strategist driving product value, creating seamless experiences users love through rapid prototyping & lean validation

Role
Ux Strategist at Vanguard
Location
Raleigh, NC, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Chris Geyer

I design intuitive experiences by solving problems through an iterative design process that includes user research, usability testing, sketching, and rapid prototyping.Specialties: user experience design, prototyping, design research, personas, usability testing, userinfusion, ux designer, ui designer, information architect, interaction designer, resume, portfolio, redesign, web apps, raleigh, nc, triangle, sketching, HTML/CSS/Javascript,

Experience

  1. Ux Strategist

    Vanguard

    Sep 2022 — Present

    Promoting continuous discovery, empowering teams to create personalized experiences for advisors• Champion next generation experiences, shaping strategic vision & providing input across all aspects of UX.• Plan, execute & guide design thinking activities to create feasible, desirable & viable experiences.• Collaborate with UX research partners to identify key discovery questions.• Ideate on concepts, flows, navigation & architecture, mapping out current & future state journeys.• Form strong relationships with cross-departmental teams, stakeholders, & senior leaders to align on goals.• Define direction for engaging & valuable experiences, balancing client goals with business needs.• Deeply understand user journeys, using data & feedback to make critical decisions to continuously improve.• Facilitate workshops, synthesize insights to define viable opportunities & hypotheses for teams.• Ensure continuity of research, design & content across 4 product teams.• Drive the discovery phase of experiences, collaborating with teams to ideate, experiment & scale.• Operate on a dual-track workflow, delivering near-term MVPs while mapping out paths to long-term innovations.Be collaborative & have an ownership mindset to design & execute on the full scope of the design thinking processEmploy narrative storytelling techniques in developing materials for presentationLead stakeholders & clients in documenting the intersection of people, processes & products through the creation of task flows & service blueprints for both current & future stateDefine & solution concepts for complex problems by applying qualitative & quantitative researchPartner with UX researchers to conduct & synthesize research & data insights to improve experiencesLeverage generative AI tools to gain efficiency for routine & repetitive UX tasks, enabling focus on higher-value strategic effortsStay resilient & provide positive energy in the face of ambiguity

Education

  • Drexel University

    BS, Information Systems & Human Computer Interaction

Skills

  • Html + Css
  • Html5
  • Css3
  • Usability Testing
  • User Experience
  • Prototyping
  • Personas
  • Research Design
  • Javascript
  • Web Applications
  • Sketching
  • Information Architecture
  • User Interface Design
  • Interaction Design
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • User-Centered Design
  • Heuristic Evaluation
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Web Design
  • Contextual Inquiry
  • Html
  • Web Development
  • Focus Groups
  • Usability Design
  • Jquery
  • User Interface
  • Human Factors
  • Task Analysis
  • Accessibility
  • Agile
  • Xhtml
  • Information Design
  • Ethnography
  • Front-End Development
  • Research
  • Web Standards
  • User Experience Design
  • Usability
  • User Research
  • Mobile Design

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