As a UX/UI Designer, I've engaged with clients to provide contract and pro bono design services, including UX research, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design. Recent projects have included:

Client: 350NH

• Conducted a thorough UX/UI website audit to assess where there are areas to improve accessibility and user experience as well as align the website to 350 branding guidelines

• Revised the primary and secondary navigation to ensure optimal user navigation

• Explored a new design direction to redesign the entire website's user interface

• Collaborated with a developer to implement the new redesign and fix user experience and accessibility pain points

Client: Project Giving Kids

• Updated the sitemap to include new webpages and user flows and ensure optimal UX

• Created wireframes, high fidelity screens, and a prototype that incorporated new educational material webpages, based on the current website design and PGK’s branding

Read the full case study here: http://leanneplaisted.com/project/project-giving-kids

Client: Foxtrail

• Conducted a competitive analysis of direct and indirect competitors to help guide the wireframe layout

• Created logo designs, illustrations, and Foxtrail branding

• Crafted style tiles and high fidelity screens and applied them to the website with Webflow

I worked collaboratively to conduct user research, usability testing, ideation, wireframing, prototyping, branding, and visual design for the following clients:

The Cumin Club

• Conducted UX research to define user pain points and establish opportunities to improve the user’s experience; produced wireframes that optimized the user flow from the homepage to checkout

• Designed high fidelity screens and a prototype for the user interface of the website

• Established visual design guidelines through a branding style guide for the small startup company

Read the case study here: http://leanneplaisted.com/project/the-cumin-club

Constellation Brands, Inc.

• Redesigned the internal employee app of Constellation Brands, a Fortune-500 company, to incorporate new features to that would help employee’s needs and improve the UI design

• Designed high fidelity mobile screens, a prototype, and a logo to enhance the visual experience

• Conducted desirability and usability tests to ensure all design directions were user-focused

Read the case study here: http://leanneplaisted.com/project/ambassador-app