About
I’m a Senior User Experience Product Designer with over a decade of experience shaping thoughtful, scalable digital products and services. Over time, my role has evolved beyond designing interfaces to helping teams frame the right problems, align stakeholders, and translate complex business challenges into intuitive, user-centered solutions that drive measurable outcomes.
I’ve partnered with cross-functional teams to design and launch enterprise platforms, mobile applications, and SaaS solutions across B2B and B2C environments—including healthcare, education, reporting, energy, and cloud technology. My approach blends research, systems thinking, and data-informed decision-making to create experiences that are both elegant and effective.
I’m comfortable operating in ambiguity—structuring complex problem spaces, aligning stakeholders, and guiding teams toward clear product direction. I thrive in fast-paced, agile environments, collaborating closely with product and engineering to move ideas from concept to delivery while maintaining a strong focus on usability, accessibility, and business impact.
Beyond product design, my creative background includes visual design, web development, video production, and music composition—fueling a well-rounded perspective that strengthens both my craft and collaboration style.
Outside of design, I’m also an equestrian who has trained wild Mustangs and a lifelong musician. Both experiences have deeply shaped how I approach my work. Music taught me how to listen closely, collaborate, and create harmony across different perspectives. Training Mustangs taught me patience, trust-building, and how to navigate uncertainty—earning alignment rather than forcing it. These experiences continue to influence how I partner with teams and approach complex challenges.
At my core, I’m a strategic UX designer who brings clarity to complex systems—shaped by a background in music, design, and training wild Mustangs.
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Real People - REAL Quotes
“Hey autumn, just wanted to let you know that we showed the same wireframes to P&G (actual client people) as well, with similar, resounding success. What we have so far seems to be absolutely on the right track.”
-Hendrik Fischer PL for NES, Nielsen Company
“I just want to say that your re-imagined Enrichment and Integration Studio capabilities really resonated with the Walmart Advisory board. I used your most current sales engineering slides and the demo leveraging the Pet and Beer examples. When asked if the design was simple and if they could even see themselves doing these tasks, pretty much everyone in the room nodded their heads. After the demo, 3 clients came up to ask more questions about the capabilities and 1 went so far as to say that he would be going back to the team to make sure these apps were in their contract.
Thanks for all of your support leading up to the demo! Congratulations on a really good product design.”
-Kate Bae, Product Owner, Nielsen Company
“The effort put into the initiative so far has been considerable, and you are one of the key players/ you have been critical to getting us where we are. I appreciate all the work you have done.”
-Souad Nowakowski, Lead Digital Product Manager, Wells Fargo
“I really enjoyed working with Autumn and deeply respect the work she did on keying. The way she approaches user experience design inspires me, and I truly feel that knowing her made me a better designer.”
-Leah Van Proeyen, Interaction Designer, Allegion
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My experience spans desktop, web, and mobile products across B2B and B2C industries, including healthcare, education, reporting, energy, and cloud technology.
Some recent projects are protected by strict security and NDA agreements. While I cannot display designs from Allegion, Wells Fargo or NextEra Energy, I’m happy to share case studies, problem/solution approaches, and measurable outcomes.


MY UX PROCESS
UNDERSTAND | DEFINE | CREATE | PROTOTYPE | TEST AND IMPLEMENT
EXECUTIVE DESIGN BRIEF
Business Value & User Research
Gather and analyze information regarding business goals, existing systems, generate a shared understanding of users needs and journey, business context and high level requirements
Deliverables: Business goals, success metrics, Product Vision
HYPOTHESIS GENERATION
User Understanding
Creation of provisionary personas and user journeys followed by collaborative sketching, team collaboration and prototype creation for validation during user research
Deliverables: initial interactive concepts, Revised Concept, Personas,
User Journey Map
USER RESEARCH
User Validation
Validate our understanding of user needs, usability, and usefulness with interviews with internal and external participants that align with personas
Deliverables: Research findings, revised Personas, Revised User Journey Maps
VISUAL DESIGN
High Fidelity Wireframe
Ideation and design of preliminary product vision resulting in an initial concept
Deliverable - High fidelity prototype including style guide and
branding call outs
DESIGN DELIVERABLE
Sprint Ready Design
Work with Scrum and development teams in sprint ritual ceremonies to deliver the final handoff of design. Advocate design branding, Desktop, Web & Mobile ready.
Deliverables: Prototype, Annotated wireframes, Style guides, Branding specs, Flow Maps

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
100%
User Experience - Interaction - User Research
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Interface design
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Interaction design
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Visual design
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Heuristic evaluation
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User research and testing
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A/B Testing
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User Surveys
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Persona Journeys
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User Flow Mapping
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Low and high-fidelity prototyping
Design Tools
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Figma
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Sketch
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UX Pin
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Invision
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Axure
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Balsamiq
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Miro Board
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Photoshop
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Illustrator
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Dreamweaver
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After Effects
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Final Cut Pro
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Zeplin
Familiar With
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HTML
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CSS
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EXTJS
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Angular & Polymer
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Material Design
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React
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Bootstrap























