Katrina Clark Tempero
Staff Interaction Designer
Pleasanton, CA, USA
650.492.5123
katrinatempero.com
Sr. User Experience Designer, passionate about user-centered design.
Achieving excellent product experiences through research, iteration and testing.
Strong visual design background with a passion for solving problems with end-to-end solutions.
Achieving excellent product experiences through research, iteration and testing.
Strong visual design background with a passion for solving problems with end-to-end solutions.
Work Experience
Staff Interaction Designer
- Manage UX team; interaction designers and user experience researchers
- The functional UX design lead for two product teams, providing design oversight and guiding designers to achieve product excellence and design approvals.
- Team with XFN leads to drive product vision and prioritize work
- Manage ongoing UX prioritization across the Decision UX team
- Established UX processes with the goal of achieving cross-functional operational excellence that build consensus, ensuring each project does due diligence along the way to production.
- Support direct reports in growing towards achieving their career goals
- The functional UX design lead for two product teams, providing design oversight and guiding designers to achieve product excellence and design approvals.
- Team with XFN leads to drive product vision and prioritize work
- Manage ongoing UX prioritization across the Decision UX team
- Established UX processes with the goal of achieving cross-functional operational excellence that build consensus, ensuring each project does due diligence along the way to production.
- Support direct reports in growing towards achieving their career goals
December 2015
- Present
Palo Alto, California, United States
Yahoo
Sr. User Experience Designer
Search Design: Work with product managers to identify and define new and incremental improvements to search. Create concepts, iterate/evolve solutions, spec final designs and communicate specs to engineering, working closely with them to ensure all nuances are to spec.
Platforms: desktop, tablet and mobile
Hackday: Participate in hackday regularly; bringing new ideas to life alongside passionate/brilliant engineers.
Platforms: desktop, tablet and mobile
Hackday: Participate in hackday regularly; bringing new ideas to life alongside passionate/brilliant engineers.
August 2013
- Present
California, United States
Spigit, Inc.
Sr. UX Interaction Designer
RESPONSIBILITIES
Take features from project managers and brain storm solutions, create workflow diagrams, wireframes, create prototypes, write testing script, test prototypes, create final interface designs and support Agile development team in executing the final design.
Other tasks include:
- Assisting project managers in keeping User Stories thorough and current
- Identify expensive user interactions
Take features from project managers and brain storm solutions, create workflow diagrams, wireframes, create prototypes, write testing script, test prototypes, create final interface designs and support Agile development team in executing the final design.
Other tasks include:
- Assisting project managers in keeping User Stories thorough and current
- Identify expensive user interactions
August 2012
- August 2013
California, United States
KC Design Lab
UX Interaction Designer, Project Lead
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Write and present detailed proposals that land clients
- Create all documentation and manage projects; manage the discovery cycle, write the creative brief, create wireframe document, create up to 7 design directions, create page comps for all screens, create/conceptualize and design interactive content and infographics
- Hire programmers who take pride in the efficiency of their code and adhere closely to design guidelines
- Manage programmers; check for quality and accuracy and uphold high standards for the finish product
- Collaborate with marketing team to develop a targeted user interface workflow
- Create strategic designs with detailed wireframes for data-base driven websites that use current web applications and a variety of CMSs, HTML/DHTML, CSS, ColdFusion, PHP, MySQL, JQuery
- Keep up to date on the latest design trends, current technology and advancements in interaction design
CLIENTS
New York Women’s Foundation, Power.org, Mavericks Invitational, Blade.org,
Blade User Group, Golds Gym, Blue Shield of California, NAACP,
Mavericks/Jeff Clark Surfboards, IEEE-ISTO, IEEE-ICAP
- Write and present detailed proposals that land clients
- Create all documentation and manage projects; manage the discovery cycle, write the creative brief, create wireframe document, create up to 7 design directions, create page comps for all screens, create/conceptualize and design interactive content and infographics
- Hire programmers who take pride in the efficiency of their code and adhere closely to design guidelines
- Manage programmers; check for quality and accuracy and uphold high standards for the finish product
- Collaborate with marketing team to develop a targeted user interface workflow
- Create strategic designs with detailed wireframes for data-base driven websites that use current web applications and a variety of CMSs, HTML/DHTML, CSS, ColdFusion, PHP, MySQL, JQuery
- Keep up to date on the latest design trends, current technology and advancements in interaction design
CLIENTS
New York Women’s Foundation, Power.org, Mavericks Invitational, Blade.org,
Blade User Group, Golds Gym, Blue Shield of California, NAACP,
Mavericks/Jeff Clark Surfboards, IEEE-ISTO, IEEE-ICAP
November 2006
- Present
California, United States
Embedded Insight
Art Director
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Oversee design process from concept to delivery
- Produce original art and design
- Collaborate with a variety of clients and colleagues
CLIENTS
HyperTransport Consortium, Broadcom, Allayer Communications, LightWire,
Theseus Group, MIPS Technologies
- Oversee design process from concept to delivery
- Produce original art and design
- Collaborate with a variety of clients and colleagues
CLIENTS
HyperTransport Consortium, Broadcom, Allayer Communications, LightWire,
Theseus Group, MIPS Technologies
September 1999
- October 2006
Santa Clara, California, United States
Education
Yale University
Certificate - Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders
- Leveraging Networks for Innovation and Influence
- The Keys to Influence and Persuasion
- Leading Organizational Change
- Employee Engagement and Motivation
- Financial Accounting
- Negotiating: Value Creation and Perspective Changing
- Understanding Customer Choice
- Fostering Creativity in Teams
- Deciding to Decide: Decision Making for Leaders
- Fighting the Undermanagment Epidemic
- Managing, Developing and Retaining the New Generation of Talent
- The Keys to Influence and Persuasion
- Leading Organizational Change
- Employee Engagement and Motivation
- Financial Accounting
- Negotiating: Value Creation and Perspective Changing
- Understanding Customer Choice
- Fostering Creativity in Teams
- Deciding to Decide: Decision Making for Leaders
- Fighting the Undermanagment Epidemic
- Managing, Developing and Retaining the New Generation of Talent
July 2019
- July 2019
Connecticut, United States
Hasso Plattner Institute
Certificate - Design Thinking, Prototyping
August 2017
- August 2017
Berlin, Germany
Nielson Norman Group
UX Training
- Mobile Websites and Apps
- Web Page Design
- Interaction Design: 3-Day Course
- Wireframing and Prototyping
- Web Page Design
- Interaction Design: 3-Day Course
- Wireframing and Prototyping
April 2013
- May 2013
San Francisco, California, United States
Humboldt State University (CSU)
Bachelor's of Arts - Studio Art
Interactive media, Sculpture
January 2004
- May 2006
Arcata, California, United States
Academy Of Art University (AAU)
Credits towards BA
3D Animation, Design
August 2000
- May 2001
California, United States
Languages
Portuguese (Fluent),
Awards
Skills
Adobe Dreamweaver,
Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe Indesign,
Adobe Photoshop,
Axure,
Bugzilla,
InVision,
Jira ,
Sketch,
Wacom Tablet,
WordPress,