You’re a What??
I have this conversation just about every time I meet someone. I can’t say I really blame the person on the other end, though; my …
Mar 2013
Read More→gia romano.
An experienced UI/UX product manager (15+ years) with a background in research, planning, designing and launching digital projects. Constantly encouraging feedback, my working style is transparent; presenting and collaborating to teams in multiple layers of an organization.
Projects in my portfolio range from websites (enterprise ecommerce, social networking, portfolios, etc.), web apps, mobile apps, enterprise (FAST search) and cloud apps.
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- Journey Sketchboard Sample
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- MyTrader Sitemap
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- Telstra T-Hub Device Wireframe
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- Ad Booking Iphone Application
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- Telstra Trading Post Redesign Project
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- Qwest Solutions Interactive App
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- Qwest Contact Center Ad
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- Qwest Interactive Web Redesign
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- Wells Fargo Website
Calculating ROI on UX & Usability Projects
Unfortunately, the basic metrics of the web like click-through-rates and subscriptions do not demonstrate the value of UX to most software development. Oftentimes the request …
Dec 2012
Read More→The Difference Between Information Architecture and UX Design
Have you ever wondered what the difference was between these highly cerebral professions? UX Architect Darren Northcott breaks it down in his own words, providing …
Aug 2012
Read More→Journey to The Heart of UX Design: Debunking Myths
Design doesn’t showcase a company so much as it enables its users to tell a story. It’s everything from the initial idea to the last …
Aug 2012
Read More→Running a Successful User Workshop
User workshops won’t tell you exactly what to do but, if run correctly, they can give you invaluable insight at the crucial early stages of …
Aug 2012
Read More→Working on a Team as a UX Designer
Learning is an essential skill for any knowledge worker and, increasingly, we’re all knowledge workers. Andrew Maier explains how UX designers can facilitate learning, brainstorming, …
Jul 2012
Read More→Five Tips to help Designers Find the Perfect UX Agency
On the hunt for your next gig or just curious what’s out there? Jod Kaftan offers designers five things to look for when considering the move …
Jul 2012
Read More→Design for Readability – a Content Strategy
Have we designed ourselves into a box? Content Strategist Matt Herron explains the evolution of the “standard” content display model as well as what designers …
Jul 2012
Read More→Who killed the inactive button state? User experience?
Inactive buttons used to be a popular form control, but all that’s changed in recent years. Chuck McQuilkin examines a handful of modern forms to dissect …
Jun 2012
Read More→Designing the Team Experience
The same, valuable principles that inform our client work apply equally well to our professional relationships. After all: our colleagues are people, too! Jessica Vallance explores …
Jun 2012
Read More→Who killed the inactive button state? User experience?
Inactive buttons used to be a popular form control, but all that’s changed in recent years. Chuck McQuilkin examines a handful of modern forms to dissect …
Jun 2012
Read More→Designing the Team Experience
The same, valuable principles that inform our client work apply equally well to our professional relationships. After all: our colleagues are people, too! Jessica Vallance explores …
Jun 2012
Read More→Women On Top: Inappropriate Dropdowns
What’s the best order for the options in your dropdown? Kate Roberts shares her design process, the results of her usability tests, and tips you …
Jun 2012
Read More→5 Useful Lies to Tell User Research Participants
Although design researchers vary in their methodology, no one argues with valid results. Lisa Duddington explains how to introduce both passive and active deception into …
Jun 2012
Read More→Comics and UX Part 2 – Flow and Content
In the first part of this series, Rachel Nabors provided readers with ample techniques to improve their craft. In this, final article, Rachel introduces flow …
May 2012
Read More→Comics and User Experience, Part 1: Cross-disciplinary Techniques
As with websites so with comics: there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. Follow along as Rachel Nabors shares techniques from the …
May 2012
Read More→Facebook’s Faceoff with Google+
Facebook didn’t just nail “social;” they created it. But where they sometimes fail – and where Google+ could win out – is usability. Liz Carlson …
May 2012
Read More→Designs Well with Others: Collaboration for Designers (Part 2)
Distributed teams must overcome a number of issues in order to reap the benefits of collaboration. Learn to communicate more clearly and overcome the dreaded …
May 2012
Read More→Designs Well with Others: Collaboration for Designers (Part 1)
Successful teams can feed off each other’s creative drive to push innovative ideas forward resulting in amazing work. Raluca Eneprovides everything our team needs to …
May 2012
Read More→Effective Presentation of a Website’s Navigation
Every website has it, but not every website does it well. Andy Montgomeryintroduces two concepts – and provides dozens of examples – towards effective navigation …
May 2012
Read More→Lessons Learned Designing a Windows 8 App
Microsoft’s new design language, Metro, presents interaction designers with a ton of new challenges and opportunities. Follow along as graduate students Valentina and Christinaredesign an …
Aug 2012
Read More→Designing the Team Experience
The same, valuable principles that inform our client work apply equally well to our professional relationships. After all: our colleagues are people, too! Jessica Vallance explores …
Jun 2012
Read More→5 Useful Lies to Tell User Research Participants
Although design researchers vary in their methodology, no one argues with valid results. Lisa Duddington explains how to introduce both passive and active deception into …
Jun 2012
Read More→Comics and User Experience, Part 1: Cross-disciplinary Techniques
As with websites so with comics: there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. Follow along as Rachel Nabors shares techniques from the …
May 2012
Read More→Designs Well with Others: Collaboration for Designers (Part 2)
Distributed teams must overcome a number of issues in order to reap the benefits of collaboration. Learn to communicate more clearly and overcome the dreaded …
May 2012
Read More→Behaviour Driven Development in an Agile Environment
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), a term first coined by Dan North in 2003, is style of agile development championed by many firms. It encourages developers …
Oct 2009
Read More→Trading Post Mobile
Managed the development of the new TradingPost mobile site – you can check it out at http://mobile.tradingpost.com.au/. In the first month of being live the …
Feb 2009
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Trading Post – Taxonomy Project
I managed and lead the Taxonomy Architecture project which was designated to provide an improved platform and business knowledge for category structures across the TradingPost …
Jul 2008
Read More→Trading Post – Taxonomy Project
I managed and lead the Taxonomy Architecture project which was designated to provide an improved platform and business knowledge for category structures across the TradingPost …
Jul 2008
Read More→Contact
Use the info below to get a hold of me.
I would love to discuss your project with you.
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1 to 1 Communications
134 Springfield Road
Christchurch, 8014 NZ
1382 Fulai Court
San Jose, CA 95125 USA
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P: +64.210.811.3933
F: +1.408.455.0290.
E: gia@1to1communications.com
