Karen McCullough User Experience Designer

Hi, I’m Karen, a UX/UI designer with 10+ years of industry experience.

My combined professional and educational background in design, user experience and coding gives me a unique perspective to consider usability from all sides.

UX/UI Designer

Filterable Program Listings

Academic program listings would leverage taxonomy to tag, sort and filter to help students find what they’re looking for and allow content to surface in multiple places.

Filterable program listing page concepts

UX Researcher

Student Portal Research

A new student portal allows current UM-Dearborn students to conduct business across campus in a central location. I developed and facilitated testing with students prior to the MVP launch.

UM-Dearborn task maapping for new student portal

UX/UI Designer

Microsite Navigation Menu

As part of a CMS upgrade from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 the UM-Dearborn web team took the opportunity to improve the local navigation as we moved to a microsite model.

UM-Dearborn microsite navigation desktop mockup

UX Researcher/Architect

Research Core Pages

The core UM-Dearborn Research pages were created to elevate the presence of research on the campus' central website and to attract research talent and partnerships.

UM-Dearborn research core page desktop mockup

UX/UI Designer/Lead Developer

QAI Website Redesign

QAI provides organic certification for food and personal care products. The organic certification process can be intimidating and complex. We had an opportunity to address this concern when redesigning their website.

QAI website screenshots for desktop, tablet and mobile

UX/UI Designer/Lead Developer

NSF International's Certified for Sport® Website Redesign

The redesign of NSF International's Certified for Sport® website helped consumers compare supplements while providing a more cohesive user journey across channels.

NSF International Certified for Sport website screenshots for desktop, tablet and mobile