Jen Byyny

Design Lead Yahoo Denver, visual and front-end designers. Liaison to cross-functional team of engineers, product and QE. Design team representative to the larger design group at Yahoo. Responsible for hiring, performance reviews, culture influence and overseeing general work flow for the design team. Projects include Yahoo Contributor Services, User Generated Content System, Yahoo Voices, Yahoo Backyard corporate intranet site and Yahoo Publish enterprise software tool for internal editors. Processes include agile, versionone, rally and trello (kanban).

Designed user interaction experiences for large scale sites including: Yahoo Health, Astrology, Shine, News, Finance, TV and the global design system for smartphones and tablets. Responsibilities included conceptual product ideation, wireframing, workflows, user journeys, site architecture, site onotologies, competitive audits, branding, design for usability testing Worked as the liason with product, engineering and design.

Contract design work focusing on storytelling with web experiences, product brainstorming and definition, information architecture, user workflows and wireframes. Clients included the International Museum of Women San Francisco, eFax and Spogger.

Supported stock and commercial assignment photographer who specializes in outdoor recreation, lifestyle and architectural photography. Coordinated shoots, hired talent, submitted requested stock images to clients and promoted photographic services to prospective clients.

Mobile interface UI/design for pre-smart phone OS.