My UX design projects at NASA-JPL involved conducting customer research and interviews to gather user stories, building wireframes and prototypes, facilitating usability tests, developing personas and user workflows, collaborating with web developers and other UX designers, and more. The following are examples of my UX design process via Figma.
Planetary Cloud/Aerosol Research Facility (PCARF)
R&D: Brainstorming & Card Sorting
As a smaller project, the UX design process for the PCARF website commenced with brainstorming and card sorting sessions, where we discussed target audience, purpose and goals, relevant content, takeaways, and success metrics.
Site Plan: Summary, Objectives & Key Results
Brainstorming and card sorting exercises allowed the team to gather and prioritize their thoughts. After these sessions, I developed a plan for the site, which included a summary of our brainstorming sessions, the primary objectives, and key results they could expect from these objectives.
Information Architecture (IA) & User Flow
Along with the above plan, I also designed a recommended IA for the website and walked the PCARF team through what the user flow would look like.
Site Buildout (Wagtail CMS)
Once the PCARF team approved my design, I built out the website using NASA’s WordPress CMS.
Ryan Smernoff 