Shelton Davis

Operable is the maker of Cog, a secure and open source collaboration framework built to bring developers command line tools and workflows into chat. Check out Cog's repo at GitHub (https://github.com/operable/cog).

Design Cannon is a web design company specializing in user-experience design for mobile-ready websites. We make your online brand easy to navigate through extensive user-research as well as make it flexible to all platforms including computers, tablets, and smartphones.

External Clients:
• The Home Depot : Lead UX consultant on their spring and summer iPad Style Guide application
• BlackBerry World : Lead UX designer for their upcoming responsive website
• The Weather Channel Media Kit : Lead UX designer for their upcoming responsive website
• NXE Fitness : Lead UX designer for their brand launch
• Selle Anatomica : Designer & developer of a web based dealership locator with Google Fusion Tables
• JP McChesney Design : Site management and graphic design services
• Urban Explorers Preschool : Site management and graphic design services
• Weeblets : UX consultant
• Alta Search Inc. : Site management and graphic design services

Internal Projects:
• RepurposedGoods.com : Founder and chief designer of the Pallet Adirondack Chair DIY Guide (recognized by HGTV, The DIY Network, CrispGreen, ReNest and UnConsumption)
• PlaygroundParents.com : CoFounder, designer, developer and noob GIS cartologist

Chef gives IT teams a model for automating their infrastructure and applications, which in turn drives self-reliance across their development and operations teams.

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Chef Analytics Activities:
- Lead UX designer & researcher
- Conducted heuristics on current builds in order to inform further iteration and research areas
- Worked with engineering manager / product managers on product roadmap and strategy
- Created wireframe prototypes to test with users
- Conducted user interviews, client UI reviews, and internal engineering demos
- Collaborated with customer facing teams; sales engineering and technical account managers in order to get a better understanding of the user from their perspective

Chef Delivery Activities:
- Prototyped dashboard visualizations for current and future potential builds
- Collaborated with large corporate clients in the creation and iteration of the product

Chef general:
- Consulted on UX concerns across other aspects of the business
- Supported other teams through new and difficult user experiences

The Innovation Lab at First Data (a merchant services company) is the discovery and design engine that helps innovate current company products as well as prototype future concepts based on user research and market needs/trends.

As the lab's User Experience Design Manager, my job is to understand user needs (small-medium sized business, consumer, developer, sales, etc.) through multiple research methodologies and create experiences that answer these existing or newly discovered needs. Success is achieved through many design iterations and the ultimate discovery of an experience that meets the needs of the user while fitting seamlessly into a suite of other product experiences.

Innovation Research Activities:
• Small to Medium Business Research : Lead prototype creation for all research sessions (from paper prototypes to fully interactive prototypes), informed research methodology through design objectives, persona creation
• Design Thinking Workshops : Participated and group guide through the process
• Internal Lab Research : Initiated live competitive research center in lab for team to participate in
• Partnership Analysis : Storyboarding of user scenarios in order to identify product potential and gaps in market

Product Specific Activities:
• Pogo Payment : Heuristic analysis and prototyping of certain existing user flows
• Money Network : Sssshhhhh, it's top secret! Oink.
• Clover Point-of-Sale : Product launch design support through collateral creation, exhibit design, bank marketing, social marketing & outreach, new product development (more top secret stuff), consumer/developer research
• Perka - Exhibit design, cross brand marketing with Clover

Maxmedia is an interactive design agency that creates digital marketing solutions for clients like The Home Depot, NBA, NFL and AT&T. As the Lead User Experience Designer, I helped the Maxmedia team of designers and developers produce mobile, web, and touchscreen experiences through wireframing exercises, stakeholder interviews and experience prototyping.

I continue to contract with them through my company, Design Cannon, an ongoing basis to provide their clients with the best user-experience possible.

Clients:
• NFL : Lead UX designer of an tablet based social experience
• The Home Depot : Lead UX designer & consultant on their Fall 2011 iPad Style Guide application
• NCR Direct : Lead UX designer of their updated ecommerce website
• AT&T : Lead UX consultant
• InComm : Lead UX and information architect on MyVanillaDebitCard.com brand experience (support role)

EchoViz is a boutique design firm specializing in interaction design, user experience and usability research. Using established design strategies and advanced visualization techniques, we engaged customers, built brands, and enhanced the user experience with products, websites, software and interactive environments.

At EchoViz, my primary roles was as a user experience designer and graphic designer. Additionally, I helped manage and scope out projects.

Clients:
• ADVA Optical : UX and graphic designer of an internal networking system
• General Electric : UX and graphic designer of appliance user interfaces
• Raymond Corporation : UX and graphic designer of iWarehouse
• Cooper Lighting : Flash graphic designer of web based marketing material
• Hewlett Packard : Lead UX designer for their worldwide Entitlement Documentation printed inserts
• Guided Therapeutics : UX and graphic designer of touchscreen user interfaces for medical equipment
• Endicott Interconnect : Graphic designer of conference signage

CATEA (Center for Accessibility, Technology and Environmental Access) is a multidisciplinary engineering and design research center at Georgia Tech that is dedicated to enhancing the health, activity and participation of people with functional limitations through the application of assistive and universally designed technologies in real world environments, products and devices. At CATEA, I served as the prototyping shop manager, dynamic seating researcher, designer and prototyper as well as run a student group through the creation of a game built for individuals with cognitive and physical disabilities.

Client / Research Partnership List:
• Sunrise Medical & Stephen Sprigle PhD : Researcher, designer and prototype manufacturer of a second generation dynamic seating system built for children with cerebral palsy
• CATEA Shop Manager : advised graduate student groups that were developing assistive technology products for industry partners
• Sharon Sonenblum PhD : Designed and engineered a human “bum” for seat testing in an MRI

As the Arthritis Foundation's Ease-of-Use testing lab, GTRI tests a wide range of products through ethnographic research and lab studies. Through human factor research and industrial design principals, products are evaluated and designed to be more usable by the target audience. At GTRI, I lead the industrial and graphic design efforts and assisted the research team in prototyping and running subjects through numerous research scenarios.

Arthritis Simulation Gloves (patent pending)
I was an integral player in the design, development and manufacture of the Arthritis Simulation Gloves. The gloves' purpose is to help designers and engineers better understand the issues people with arthritis have with consumer products such as bottle caps. These gloves restrict grip strength and fine motor movement. They are currently being utilized in the design process by companies like Kraft Food and are available through Dr. Brad Fain at GTRI. (http://hseb.gtri.gatech.edu/gloves.php)

Clients:
• Carbon Motors : User ethnography, manual user interface design, graphic user interface design for in-vehicle touchscreens and testing
• Arthritis Foundation Headquarters : Graphic design of a display case branding
• Arthritis Foundations in Australia and New Zealand : Graphic Design of gloves branding
• BioGuard : User research ethnography, product development and design
• Coca Cola : Industrial designer of equipment to test new bottle cap
• Southwire : Industrial designer of a cable testing apparatus as well as field researcher
• Diamond Cabinets : Conducted user research
• Tylenol : Conducted user testing and prototype design
• Aleve : Conducted product testing and expert evaluation
• Humera : Conducted user testing and expert evaluation
• Marta : New website consultation
• GTRI Accessibility Assistant : Industrial and graphic designer of accessibility graphics
• Soloflex Wholebody Vibration : User viability research
• Yoropen : User testing and expert evaluation