Debra Tjoa | Online Portfolio

Information architecture, interaction design, user interface design
Requirements gathering, use case development
Translating requirements into working screens
Storyboarding and defining process flows
Creating wireframes, mockups, rapid paper prototypes, and HTML prototypes
Creating and enforcing UI standards
Usability testing (paper prototypes, HTML protoypes, live software, heuristic analysis, questionnaires)
Designing cross-browser compatible, accessible, and globalized web applications
Detailed QA testing of UI
Clear, complete documentation
Excellent communication skills
Plays well with others :-)

Part of team that combined disparate products and modules into a single, consistent, enterprise web application with thousands of pages
Built ~300 HTML screens for 55 functional specs in four weeks; built ~450 HTML screens for 12 large features over a year
For three years, was sole producer for entire product and still completed all tasks
Contributor to and sole maintainer of UI Toolkit, a UI guidelines document covering dimensions, field layout, usage of field types, terminology, labels, language, when to use which pattern, and best practices
Quickly learned different functional areas, such as workflows, resource management, portfolio and project management, finance and accounting, security and administration, IT management and governance, and services
Improved product quality by catching both UI and functionality bugs; top bug logger in 2004, surpassing test engineers (924 bugs in 2004, 815 in 2003)
One of five Development employees given the Niku Summit 2002 award for outstanding performance