missy yarbrough

Senior Product Designer in Austin, TX

With various professional design adventures such as IBM Cloud, RapidDeploy, Pathrise, and Virtuix, I have a knack for nudging people to share their earnest thoughts. Through the power and process of design, their aspirations become awe-inspiring experiences topped with more trustworthy, enduring outcomes for business-to-customer relations.

I intentionally stay engaged with people by preparing experiences for them such as:
- WIP livestreaming ambitions to chat and work with other professionals via YouTube
- Logistics Manager of the Exhibit Hall @ Dream Con, a blerd event that garners 22K+ attendees!
- Career Coach @ CareerCoach.Design where designers seek ways to level up their career paths

🟢 Open to FTE / Contracts / Projects - Let's Chat!
Screenshot of Eclipse dashboard reporting
Why should government funding support a purposeless 911 product?
Lead Designer / May 2021—July 2021 / Delivered

911 supervisors need a clear view of their PSAP's performance data so that their analysis can inform future budgeting, equipment, and staffing needs. How can simple visual updates clarity Eclipse's purpose for better government funding of PSAPs (call centers or dispatch centers that handles emergency calls and coordinates emergency responses)?

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Screenshot of a dispatcher view of incidents and unit assignments
When it comes to 911 calls, no one wants an ambulance to put out fires.
Lead Designer / Oct 2020—Jan 2021 / Delivered and Implemented / Nimbus is now deprecated

Existing dispatchers were struggling to use RapidDeploy’s CAD platform Nimbus to deploy available response units in a swiftly effective manner. How can a redesign of the information overload help dispatchers identify accurate incident and unit information in a more cohesive manner?

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Screenshot of IBM Cloud Support Center Updates
Hello IBM?
Are you there to support my cloud?
Co-Designer / Designs handed off May 2020

The relatively small support teams are expected to address the needs of thousands and potentially millions of cloud customers. Meanwhile, users are left hanging for resolution. What are quick wins to improve IBM Cloud Support's usability?

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Screenshot of IBM Cloud Docs Search homepage
IBM Cloud users can't learn if they can't find the right documentation.
Co-Designer / Launched June 2019

How might a new search experience better support customers searching on the IBM Cloud platform so that we regain their trust and continuously build a better search output over time?

In-app Docs searches doubled on average from 8,000 to 16,000 weekly with a total of over 1 million searches in 2019.

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Screenshot of IBM Cloud Docs Search homepage
Content writers are experts in the ways of the text, not imagery.
Lead Designer / Internal guidelines issued February 2020

Inconsistent styling and outdated files impede user trust of digesting information. How might we improve consistency across visual styling, ease the creation process, and elevate user trust of documentation information?

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MY PROCESS

Discover and Understand as-is scenarios and assumptions 🕵🏻
Research and Analyze relationships and problems 🧐
Brainstorm and Ideate ideas, MVPs, and big sky concepts 💡
Connect and Collaborate on prioritization and feasibility 🤝
Test and Iterate by listening, reflecting, and refining 🧪
Handoff and QA by syncing with dev and submitting design bugs 👾
Launch and Celebrate! Be sure to rest and rejuvenate! 🎉
Repeat and Elevate after observing product performance and feedback 🔁

Life isn't easy alone.

It's even harder without design. Let's make together.

Virtuix 🎮
Senior UI/UX Designer
Jan 2021—April 2024
Pathrise 💹
Product Design Industry Mentor
Dec 2020—October 2022
RapidDeploy ⛑
Product Designer
Aug 2020—Dec 2021
IBM ☁
Visual Designer → UX Designer
Mar 2014 → Oct 2016—June 2020

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