Corel

UX Designer
2015-Present

Roles
UX Design - UI Design - UX Research - Content Curation - Content Creation

My role at Corel is best described as a UX Generalist. I led the design direction of many different projects as a UX designer and product owner from start to end of a project cycle. I contributed design work to existing projects at various stages of the cycle. I’ve created surveys and interacted with users in Betas for UX research. I curated content from artists for use in Corel’s public online galleries, marketing materials, and in-app messaging. I create design guidelines for asset production and managed contractors while they create content. I’ve created content for Corel including tutorials & user guides, marketing materials, and templates.

Projects

While working at Corel, I’ve worked on many product releases, including multiple versions of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, and Corel Painter.

Here are a few highlights:

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X8

• Completed a full assessment of the onboarding experience for new users and made recommendations for future developments

• Refined the in-app messaging to improve clarity of the experience

• Streamlined the installation, account creation, and upgrade experience

• Created a new way for users to learn how to use the product tools through tutorial Tours

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2017

• Designed an updated curve editing and node interaction for every tool and transient in the suite

• Worked with the ecommerce team to design in product purchasing experiences

• Designed the Impact tool, which was made available as a plugin in earlier versions and integrated as a full tool in 2018

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2018

• Designed the symmetry drawing mode for CorelDRAW

• Designed a new workflow allowing users to use the Align and Distribute docker with individual nodes on a curve, where it had previously been limited to objects only

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019 + CorelDRAW Graphics Suite for Mac

• Worked with a team to assess problems with pixel precision in web design workflows and introduced enhancements to ensure better pixel precision and more clarity when exporting images

• Created a new workflow for user onboarding; Created tutorials for new users and artwork for advanced users

• Supervised contractors and managed the creation of templates for use in the enhanced “New from Template…” workflow

• Redesigned the Welcome experience for the Mac user.

Painter 2017

• Created a new template for the reviewers guide (Check it out here)

• Created artwork for use in the reviewer’s guide, help documentation and user tutorials

• Curated user artwork for use in marketing materials and in-app galleries

Painter 2019

• Updated the icon style guide and worked with a contracted to create a full set of new icons for an updated UI

Painter 2020

• Created design guidelines and supervised the implementation of the Brush Accelerator report