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Noranda Brown

Noranda Brown

Greater Boston, MA
noranda@norandabrown.com
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What I Do Well

UI Design

I have 10+ years of experience designing interactive high-fidelity
user interfaces
, employing an effective user-centered design approach, working closely with project teams and developers.
My current work focuses on designing user-friendly and impactful healthcare prototypes and web apps. My tools of the trade are
Sketch
,
InvisionApp
, and
Adobe InDesign
.

Development

I have 10+ years of
frontend development
experience, with the last 5 years primarily using
ReactJS
, and more recently
Next.js
and
Material UI
.
I love finding new ways to bring my designs to life, including solving tough problems and finding the best approaches. While I primarily work in React, I have also poked around in
Ember
,
Ruby on Rails
,
GraphQL
, among others.

Data Visualization

I am exceptionally adept at taking complex data and ideas,
distilling
them into digestible and coherent pieces, and
transforming
them into visualized data.
I have used these skills to
transform ideas
into fully-fledged prototypes and apps, working with project, department, and division leaders to define strategy, describe workflows, and present data in ways that lead to
high impact results
.

My Design Principles

Clear

A simple, crisp, intuitive design is a result of good structure and proper spacing.

Consistent

A consistent layout, language, and design helps improve user engagement and experience.

Delightful

Enrich the user experience by using new technologies, behavioral design, gamification, and creativity.

My Coding Principles

Modular

Modularization makes code easy to understand and more maintainable. Keep the code DRY!

Style

Use best-practice naming, punctuation, spacing, and comment conventions to keep code clean and readable.

ABL

Always Be Learning! Keep up with the latest updates and changes. Smart people make smart libraries smarter.

My Experience

2014-present

The MITRE Corporation

UI Designer & Developer, Senior

Lead Designer
for high-impact MITRE Moonshot research project, solely responsible for creating a cohesive design strategy across multiple projects, including presenting innovative work to sponsor workgroups and national conferences, and leading patient and clinician UX focus groups.
Design Implementation Lead
on Clinical Decision Support project, designing and implementing improvements, and spearheading and implementing a codebase-wide refactor to improve maintainability.
Mentoring
and providing
technical leadership
to project teams by pushing for clean, concise, and standardized code.
Creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
Bringing mockups to life using
HTML
,
CSS
,
JavaScript
,
ReactJS
,
Next.js
, and
Material UI
.

2013-2014

Brandeis University

Web Developer

Developed sites for various divisions of the University and assisted with administration of the Cascade Server web content management system and myBrandeis campus portal.

2012-2012

NASA-JPL

Research Intern

Developed a Matlab program which converted spherical harmonic coefficients from the Magellan orbiter into topography, measured gravity, geoid, and gravity maps for studying volcanoes on Venus.

2008-2012

Wellesley College

Office Assistant

Provided administrative support in the Office of the Provost and Dean of the College.
Designed and created numerous projects using Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

My Education

2013-2014

Brandeis University

MA, Computer Science

GPA: 3.9
+Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Computer Science

2008-2012

Wellesley College

BA, Geosciences

GPA: 3.7
Magna Cum Laude
Focus in Computer Science