Hello! I’m Taylor, a Product Designer ⚡️ 💻 with an eye 👁 for systems and lettering ✒️ living in Seattle.
Resume available upon request.
Austin to Seattle
From Austin, Texas with big Texan lifestyle of music and delicious food to living in Seattle Washington amongst the evergreens and open water and amazing International food.
Alignment of Values and Goals
I love creating things that are helpful, bring joy and that can exist in the real world to reach people who need it. I have a passion for community and collaboration. Three things I cherish most in this order — people, art/design and food.
Work Life
For over a year, my focus has been product design, my special mix of visual and UX driven design on the Microsoft News team. I’ve had the opportunity to partner with incredibly talented people. From lead design managers and mentors, developers, project managers and designers to create design solutions for integrated Ads, and semantic suggestions with Bing.
The focus of my work has recently shifted to the Edge Browser experiences to explore how we can help our users get to where they are going faster and easier.
All in all, my goal is to facilitate the best user experience possible in any of my endeavors and projects.
Approach, Experience and Interests
Creative Approach
I approach each creative challenge with an open mind and without preconceived notions or agenda, as each project is unique. With experience in Visual Design, UX/UI, and Art Direction. I can facilitate a mindful, fun & creative process with quality results. The process always starts by listening & from there, together we build a prospective plan & concept.
My Apps & Skills
Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Sketch, Balsamiq, Procreate, Adobe ipad Apps, Amaziograph, Google Apps, Teams, Trello, Slack, Powerpoint, Word, Excel.
Design Systems, Framework design, UX design, Understanding of CSS/HTML
Personal Interests
Lettering, Calligraphy, Botanicals, Reading, Tea & Coffee, Cooking, Handmade Good/ies, Outdoors, Travel, Yoga, Cycling, Crafts, Movies, Cultural Exploration, All flavors of food.
Play Life
Outside of work my passion is cultivating a community of lettering, calligraphy and letter design enthusiasts. I co-host a meetup group in Seattle called Type Treatment with my pal Hillary, we’ve been going strong since January 2019. We started with a small group and have grown to a large group 20+ regular attendees (over 40+ members).
We have members from all over Washington that travel to meet with the 1st Saturday of every month. Since January of 2020 our goal has been to start doing “Mini-workshops”. This is where a member or professional letterer shares/teaches with the group about a specific lettering related topic, these are open to the public and are ticketed but FREE.
We have also adapted to the current situation and now host virtually.
Testimonials and Referrals
“Taylor is a talented designer and she has been a great asset to my team. As her manager at Microsoft News, she has brought her A-game skills. I truly appreciate her ability to communicate, partner with PM’s and developers. She stays focused and quickly iterates on any design challenge she is working on. Her positive attitude and energy she brings to the team is exceptional. ”
—Roberto Morales, Sr. Product Design Manager, Microsoft News/Edge
“Taylor and I worked together on a few projects for the Microsoft News + Edge Browser team. It is pleasure to work with her and she is a great collaborator. She brings positive energy and her product design expertise when approaching product problems. With her visual design expertise, she has shared her knowledge that I will remember throughout my career.”
— Anthony Tu, UX Designer, Edge Browser
“Taylor has been a great partner to work with helping RAB to bring our website current. She has great vision, focus and stays on top of her projects to meet important deadlines. It has been a pleasure working with Taylor on our new website development! She is a great asset! ”
—Susie Waddell, Director
“My experience with Taylor was top notch! Her attention to all the details I had envisioned was wonderful! As I didn't know much about the web designing process, Taylor made sure everything on the website was taken care of, and also branded it perfectly to reflect our company. I would definitely recommend her and work with her again. ”
—Charity Jewell Walter, President and CEO at Dainty Jewell's INC.