KarlSmith UX IA UCD Agile London, Edinburgh, New York City.

Karl Smith is a highly accomplished user experience (UX) and computer science consultant (with an MSc from Napier University in Edinburgh) who is able to provide his clients with communication materials and specifications that business and technical clients can use to extend the effectiveness and attain their targets.

Karl Smith is experienced in UX (user experience) skills including;

• UX team building (including development teams, if required)
• UX team management for local, vendor and distributed teams
• UX requirements capture for UCD (design and facilitation)
  • Stakeholder, design panel and user workshops
  • Stakeholder, design panel and user interviews
• Heuristic Evaluations
• Competitor Research
  • SEO techniques
  • PPC research
  • Brand equity
• Analytics Research (interactions, pathway etc.)
  • Pathway analytics
  • A/B testing
• Audience Research
• Audience Profiling
• Persona Definition and Development
• Participant Screening
• User Research (with testable, provable results)
• Usability Testing (paper, prototypes etc.)
  • Structured workshops and interviews
  • Unstructured workshops and interviews
  • Eye tracking (ASL and Tobii)
  • Contextual usability testing
  • Ethnographic's
• Task Analysis
• Use Case Analysis

Karl Smith is experienced in classic information architecture skills including;

• Content Audits
• Content Object Modeling (WCMS)
• Taxonomies (bases of navigation)
• Meta Schema
• Content Strategies
• Tone of Voice Documentation

He is also adept at converting these assets into useable digital materials including;

• Site, Software and System Structures
• Site, Software and System Logic
• Navigation Schema
• Interaction Models
• Site Maps
• Wireframes
• Pattern Libraries
• Style guides

Karl Smith is an experienced project manager with experience predating Prince he uses waterfall and agile structures and is a certified ScrumMaster.

Additionally he is constantly involved in research to establish best practice or evolve new practice based upon his client business domain.

Working locations; London, Oxford, Edinburgh, New York

.07712 588787 | Contact Karl | www.karl-smith.com | About Karl Smith

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