Daniel Wilcox-Netepczuk
UX Designer
“Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.”
- Brian Reed
“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.”
- Charles Kettering
Thinking, creatively
How I think
I have always been fascinated by nature, looking for patterns and understanding in complex systems. It is this intuitive curiosity I bring with me to the UX world, where I see patterns, connections and meaning, and apply them to help simplify people’s lives.
Knowing the problem
Sometimes the problem is apparent. Sometimes it needs a little more attention. Through various approaches including user centered research and testing, interviews, and feedback, I better understand the issues users face, and help businesses make sure their efforts are making real change.
Finding a solution
Sometimes a problem is just too complex to walk in with a solution on your own, but a team can help! Working with stakeholders and developers in tandem, hosting design thinking workshops with the problem spelled out, and giving a broad team the opportunity to give feedback and suggestions is a powerful way to find creative solutions while enabling the team to feel heard and driving alignment with the broader business goal.
Getting alignment
With extensive experience working collaboratively with cross functional teams, I apply my user centered understanding of a problem, combined with data to support it, and concepts to help generate creative thinking in stakeholders, to generate broad alignment across the team and foster collaborative problem solving.
Crafting the model
Wireframe, iterate, test. This is the road to a successful design. Starting simple, showing solutions, and getting feedback are the fastest way to find the best interfaces that suit a users needs, while avoiding overengineering something at the risk of failure. Following this model saves time, cost and headache for all parties.
Visualizing organic beauty
A carefully crafted button, an optimal location, or the perfect font weight, can make all the difference in the world between a functional design, and a beautiful one. Approaching ideas organically, and allowing critical feedback as well as universally respected design patterns is a surefire way to guarantee a design that not only works, but works beautifully.
