Project work
Design system content strategy
- Strategized and shipped Polaris.Shopify.com with Amy Thibodeau and the Polaris team, in 10 weeks
- Drafted and published Shopify's Polaris naming guidelines
- Contributed to Shopify's voice and tone rewrite
- Ran Desirability Toolkit studies to measure user perceptions of brand identity in product
- Developed and facilitated a workshop on brand attributes and how they translate to UX design
- Product managed and crafted the IA and metadata for Shopify's search feature
- Built a case for hiring a taxonomist at Shopify
Continue to:
- Create, document, ship, and promote content guidelines and content formulas for the Polaris design system
- Help designers and developers draft and ship component documentation
- Improve the information architecture of the Polaris style guide and layout of the component pages
- Conduct usability tests and card sorts for the Polaris style guide to improve the findability of information
- Help align terminology across the design system
- Serve as a connection between the content team, Polaris team, and other departments