Leslie Carlson Vaughan

Oakland, CA 94611   (San Francisco Bay Area)
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Consulting Experience

User Experience + Visual Interaction Designer, LCV Design
Oakland, CA 2004-present

• Projects for various clients such as Sococo, FoneLook, Prairie Ceramics, Sunrock Ceramics and others. Responsibilities included web site design and development, brand identity, brochure and postcard print design.

User Experience Designer, AAA Enterprise Membership Product
Walnut Creek, CA January 2010 - April 2010

• Worked directly with users and across departments to define the user experience of the AAA Membership Product to be used by hundreds of sales reps covering Northern California, Utah and Nevada.
• Observed and interviewed users, wrote scenarios, designed user work flows and screen wire frames.
• User tested designs both on-site and remotely.
• Created website for product specifications and patterns.

Visual Interface Designer, Intuit
Mt. View, CA March 02 - December 2005

• Visual interface designer for QuickBooks Online Edition web application.
• Created visual layouts of pages, diagrams, icons & graphics.
• Visual designer of external web site, QBOE.com (2002-2005).

User Interface Designer, Avinon
San Francisco, CA January 01 - June 01

• User interface designer for releases 1.1 and 2.0.
• Created user profile documents, user experience diagrams and product work flows.
• Documented task analysis, user requirements and product features.
• Ran low-fidelity prototypes, designed feature schematics and wrote final feature specifications.

User Interface Design Consultant, Zaudhaus

• Adobe Photoshop Album, 2004 Responsible for the interface design for add-on, web-based application. Project's scope included purchasing photo projects and prints, account set-up and management. Created user task analysis, user flows, information architecture and prototype look and feel.
• Premier Equity Web site, 2003
  Responsible for the information architecture and visual design of Premier Equity web site. Created user flows, task analysis, information architecture, page schematics and visual design of web site premierequity.com.

Experience: Full Time

Visual Interface Designer, Claris/FileMaker Inc.
Div. of Apple Computer, Santa Clara, CA July 96 - July 98

• Visual design: Lead visual interface designer on Claris HomePage web page tool. Included the design of icons, splash screens, wizards, installers, product templates and visual interfaces.
• Created visual guidelines for application and on screen brand identifiers.
• Researched, designed and prototyped user interfaces for various web database front ends and multimedia CDs.

Product Designer, NetObjects, Inc.
Redwood City, CA August 98 - October 99

• User interface design: Through an iterative design process, scoped, researched, designed, prototyped and usability tested user interfaces for NetObjects' desktop and web-based applications.
• Mapped out and defined user experiences, created schematics and wrote final specifications for product features. Worked across departments in researching and promoting new features, methods and designs.
  
• Visual design: Designed and produced icons for desktop application. Managed, designed and produced multimedia CD installer for NetObjects Fusion 4.0.
• Usability research: Planned, conducted and analyzed usability research projects for desktop and web-based applications.

Co-Founder, ibizu Corp.
Responsible for User Experience
Berkeley, CA January 00 - January 01

• Implemented user-centered design process for web-based group communication applications.
• Designed and conducted site visits, user interviews, and both low and high-fidelity usability evaluations.
• Based on user research, defined usability requirements and product feature set.
• Diagramed user experiences, created schematics and prototypes, delivered final feature specifications and interface elements.

Publications

• Understanding Movement, Technical Note, CHI '97
  Published and presented technical note at CHI '97 on movement and applications for interface design.
• Nathan Shedroff, Experience Design 1, 2001
  New Riders, Indianapolis, Indiana
  Ibizu interface design featured (pp. 51, 52)

Education

• Northern Illinois University, Master of Fine Arts, 1996
  Visual Communications Department, Visual Interactive Design
• Clemson University, Bachelor of Art, 1989
  B.A. Psychology, Minor in Marketing