Hello, my name is Stephanie Mitten. I have:
- 10 years of User Experience Design / Information Architect
- 10 years of teaching, with a specialty in Special Education
- A lifetime of being an Artist in mixed media
I took the next step from UI/UX designer to be able to focus on the movement of information for users and systems. I like to reduce complexity, improve communications, and function as a translator between Engineering, QA, Users, Product Management, and Sales.
I am a former early childhood educator with a special education background. I enjoy technology, teaching and studying how information is processed, both from an educational perspective as well as a creative approach. I have always been curious as to how people process information and how I, as an educator, I can find an easier way to explain and breakdown concepts to make them more easily assimilated.
As a teacher, I generally was looking at how children have a predisposed learning style. Such as, are they visual, auditory, kinetic, or spatial learners? This is from Howard Gardner’s methodologies of 8 different learning styles… He later came up with the “E Quotient” of emotional intelligence.
I am sharing this with you – as it is what makes me a unique designer. I am as I have over 10 years of experience of studying how information is processed by all types of learners and that is what makes me stand out from the rest of crowd…
It is this and my over 10 years of experience teaching, diagnosing learning styles, accommodating those with special needs, and modifying curriculum when appropriate.
During two summers I got to work with a software company building educational software for children. I then started making a class website and using blogs to communicate with my students and parents, and then went on to teach other teachers how to do that.
UX Design is a natural fit. It gives me an opportunity to use my experience as special educator as well as to combine it with my interest in art and technology. Steve Jobs had a phrase for this… it is the time where the engineer and the artist get to finally sit together and build. “Sitting the corner of technology and liberal arts”.
Very fitting career path for me and has since launched me onto much larger roles as an information architect.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-mitten-5548316
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