Debra Tjoa
Interaction Designer
Debra Tjoa
tjoady@sbcglobal.net

Interaction designer with ten years of proven success in the areas of web application and website design. Adept at transforming complex ideas and vision into well-organized, consistent, logical information architecture with an attractive look and feel.

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Key Skills

  • 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 :-)

Accomplishments

  • One of two designers at One True Media who helped design and build onetruemedia.com and spotmixer.com
  • 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

Coding Skills

  • HTML (expert, hand-coding and Dreamweaver)
  • CSS (intermediate)
  • Javascript (intermediate)
  • JSP (intermediate)
  • PHP (beginner)
  • XML/XSLT and Xpath (beginner)
  • SQL and MySQL (beginner)

Software

  • Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop
  • IntelliJ IDEA