Elisabeth Thébaud

GUGGENHEIM INVESTMENTS LLC.,

Senior UX/UI Designer 

Chicago, June 2022 – March 2026 

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Lead UX/UI Designer working remotely (hybrid) from Plainfield, Illinois for redesigning a Microsoft Power BI and Angular, DevExpress financial application which led to an increase in user utilization. Created a Style Guide defining all of the interaction components and explored multiple concepts to elevate the design system of the web application. Contributed and produced informational video using Adobe Affects Effects of the different features of the application. Responsible for User Research, Information Architecture, Interaction and Visual Design. Worked in an Agile development environment & collaborated with a cross-functional team. 

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FORD MOTOR CO.,

Contract Digital Senior Product Designer 

Detroit, Michigan December 2020 – December 2022 

 

Working remotely from Bolingbrook, Illinois for a CRM Microsoft Dynamics 365 application for Ford Automated Vehicle Customer Care Help Center. Writing user journeys, creating user flow diagrams, building wireframes, and clickable prototypes of the interaction models of the application to optimize and refine work prior to developer hand-off. Contributing and producing informational videos using Adobe Affects Effects of the different features of the application. Working in Agile development environment & collaborating with a cross-functional team to evaluate the feasibility of the proposed features. 

 

FIS

Contract Senior UX/UI Designer

Bolingbrook, Illinois, 2018 - 2019

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Lead UX/UI designer for a subscription financial application used by internal business and external FIS GLOBAL clients from customer flow diagrams, wireframes and high-fidelity mocks. Collaborated with agile, multi-disciplinary teams to evaluate the feasibility of proposed features. Quickly came up with simple solutions to complex interaction design problems. Defined and documented user experience design patterns. Delivered design specs, checked for design bugs and worked with developers to fix. Project requirements included Angular 6, CSS, Sketch, responsive, and material
design standards.

 

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JOINT COMMISSION RESOURCES

Contract Senior UX/UI Designer

Oakbrook, Illinois, 2016 - 2017

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Lead UX/UI designer for three customer-subscription web-based applications sold
by JCR. Designed effective UI concepts in coordination with both the client
and developer's expectations for Angular 4, Bootstrap, Kendo UI, CSS and responsive.  Translated requirements into a user interface including screens and interactive elements. Provided designs and concepts for webpages in Adobe Creative Suite. Organized mobile concept content in an interactive prototype using Proto.io. Created well-written design specifications that often elicited positive feedback from developers regarding their usefulness and clarity. Collaborated with others in creating standards documents and cross-application consistency.

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FJORD

User Experience Consultant/Visual Design Specialist

Chicago, Illinois, 2014 - 2015

 

Created web 2.0 solutions for new and existing websites for various clients, utilizing the latest design trends. Produced Competitive/Gap Analysis document to provide a better user experience for the Hewlett Packard product registration web site. Produced several interactive pages for Hewlett Packard product registration web site using Axure RP Pro. Designed for different platforms, Responsive web and Salesforce, desktop, tablet and mobile applications. Took ownership on projects such as the Mega menu navigation for CenterPoint Energy and improved on the design already established. Presenting creative concepts internally and also directly to the clients from a variety of industries including T-Mobile, Centerpoint Energy, Hewlett Packard, DOW, Consumers energy and Coca Cola.

 

 

CNH INDUSTRIAL

User Experience Designer

Chicago, Illinois, 2011 - 2013

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Lead UX/UI designer responsible for the User experience design for Android based display for precision farming solutions. Worked closely with the product management, and software engineers to improve the performance, aesthetics, and usability of the existing display, based on the research data. Played a crucial role in defining and developing the software interaction model and visual design of the display. Proposed simple yet compelling interaction, visual design solutions and design specifications keeping in consideration user behavior and complex technical requirements to best apply to the product. Collaborated with developers using Polarion Software. Initiated and drove the creation of a living scalable framework and design for Style Guide. Mentored other designers and providing support on advanced design and image retouching tasks.

 

 

PARADOX SECURITY SYSTEMS

User Interface Designer

Montréal, Canada, 2010

 

​Lead UI/UX designer conceptualized the user interface concepts for an Iphone application to Arm and Disarm an Alarm system. Defined the interfaces’ requirements and architecture, such as the user tasks, features, user interaction, and navigation flow. Designed preliminary user interfaces with hand-drawn sketches and wireframes in Visio. Performed usability tests throughout the process and documented the results. Created visual mockups, design specifications and worked with the software developers to implement the final user interface design for the company's first mobile application on ITunes Store.

 

 

AMAZON.COM

Contract Senior UI/UX Designer

Seattle, Washington, 2008 - 2009

 

​Worked with Product Manager and Marketing Consultant and other members of the team to design the look and feel and user interaction experience for a new product of Amazon Payments. Designed the corresponding collaterals such as Ads and Emails Newsletters. Re-design the Sign In experience for Amazon Payments. This included navigational flow charts, and master page designs. Wrote and documented style guide for the developers to use. Designed client side of the Mobile experience, website and several collaterals for Amazon Payments.

 

 

MICROSOFT

Contract Senior UI/UX Designer

Redmond, Washington, 2007 - 2008

 

Key responsibilities included generating and shaping ideas for Microsoft Events & Microsoft Profile Center into meaningful experiences, look and feel and user interaction. Working in an Agile environment process, developed workflow with the program manager and created sketches and visual mockups and design specifications. Working alongside business planners, program managers and developers.

Accomplishments:

Released many features and websites for Microsoft Events; Admin Tool for Microsoft Events using Microsoft Blend for prototyping and delivering files to Dev. Conceptualization and creation of a more usable website for Microsoft Profile Center in less than four weeks. Interactive Calendar for MS Events. MS Events tool for Marketers to create their Events. Played a key role in the standardization for using Silverlight controls across MS Events.

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