I am so grateful to have been able to work very closely with Jessica during our time at Strava. She served as the design lead while I was the PM lead on a vertical team. Jessica is such a critical thought partner, collaborator, and leader. Her superpowers are endless but chief among them is her ability to understand 'The Problem' -- Jessica does a superb job of taking insights and feedback then taking a step back to assess the core problem in user terms. More than that, she does a great job of then reflecting and communicating that back out to stakeholders.
Lindsay Lee
Product Manager at Strava
Jessica joined Strava and rapidly showed her strengths of getting to the core of a problem and defining solutions that solve it in simple, direct ways. She is multifaceted in an ability to take on UX research, prototyping and final specs, making her a versatile addition to any team.
Arlo Jamrog
Staff Product Designer at Strava
I worked with Jessica for over two years at Strava, launching products such as Small Group Challenges and the Tour de France experience with Jessica as the lead designer. Whether designing for larger product launches or one off tasks, Jessica always delivers an experience that makes the most sense to provide a great product for users. She collaborates with engineering easily, finding designs that make the experience accessible to all Strava users (even while working within a very constrained server driven UI experience). She explains why pieces of information and design are important, is open to suggestion and feedback for UI clarity and engineering capability, and helps push the product forward anytime she finds an opportunity. I always could go to Jessica with a question on how to display some information and quickly get a mock that seamlessly fit into the existing page. Jessica was a great design partner for the product engineering team and I would gladly work with her again in the future.
Julie M.
Staff Software Engineer at Strava
Jessica is a talented designer who also has a wonderful collaborative attitude. She took our goals for certain design elements and consistently delivered options that exceeded our expectations.
Sarah Filling
Associate Project Manager at Healthgrades
Easy to work with and knows her stuff. I brought in Jessica as a freelancer on a web product launch. We had some existing designs but needed a ton of changes and improvements prior to launch. Jessica was able to hit the ground running with the team, adapting to our work processes, communication style, and tools with ease. She brought a practiced eye to our design issues and produced solid work from the start. In particular her web page design work was a perfect realization of what we wanted from the very first attempt, which is amazingly rare in a business that usually requires a half-dozen iterations to make everyone happy.
Sean Brasher
Senior Director, Web Technologies at Healthgrades
Jessica is by far the best designer I have ever worked with. She is helping us build out our next generation product offering and has provided us with beautiful designs and a clean, intuitive UI. She has worked incredibly efficiently and hit every deadline we've established. Jessica really has got to the core of our vision and I cannot recommend her highly enough.
Wessley Musso
VP of Marketing at mTAB
Working with Jess is an absolute pleasure. She's a talented and incredibly efficient designer. I'd work with her again with no hesitation.
Alex Gelman
CEO at mTAB
Jessica is an innovative, organized and creative UI/UX designer. She has an unparalleled ability to take complex, tricky, and only partially-scoped UX challenges and produce a perfect, intuitive, sleek UX/UI design. She is also incredibly efficient -- she always delivers designs in half the time we would expect for any feature. As a semi-remote contractor, she maintains the right balance of communication and independent work -- and she's very reachable. Jessica truly has raw talent, and I cannot recommend her more highly.
Emily McAteer
Co-founder/CEO at Odyssey
Jessica is an innovative, organized and creative UI/UX designer. She has an unparalleled ability to take complex, tricky, and only partially-scoped UX challenges and produce a perfect, intuitive, sleek UX/UI design. She is also incredibly efficient -- she always delivers designs in half the time we would expect for any feature. As a semi-remote contractor, she maintains the right balance of communication and independent work -- and she's very reachable. Jessica truly has raw talent, and I cannot recommend her more highly.
Alexander Bamberger
Product Manager at Odyssey
Jessica joined our team during a time where our project was just notes on paper and quickly dove in to make the vision a reality. Through her use of design technology and skills, Jessica put together a walk through of the product and it's capabilities that was so spot on with the vision that the product team was able to not only use her designs to share the vision with clients and executives but also use them to work downstream with the teams building and executing the final product. Through tight timelines, multiple iterations and many varying opinions, Jessica was able to share her expertise and bring forth great designs that took what could have been a very complex interface and disjointed interface and created one with prescriptive, intuitive workflows and a delightful look and feel. An invaluable asset and member of our team and a true rockstar personally and professionally, Jessica is not only a delight to work with but a true leader in her field.
Lauren Smith
Product Manager at Welltok
Jess is one of the most high impact designers I've ever worked with. She was an early employee at Yard Club, and helped shaped product and design schedule for the company from the beginning. I appreciate how user-oriented she is, sourcing requirements from the a variety of users and customers, and using that to inform the design roadmap of websites, mobile apps, and general company branding. Her clean and intuitive designs helped us win over a customer base that were typically resistant to using modern technology. In addition to her user-oriented philosophy and high quality execution, she's creative, practical, and always ahead of schedule. She's been a pleasure to work with and would highly recommend Jess as a senior design leader!
Colin Evran
CEO at Yard Club
Jessica is amazing designer and a perfect collaboration partner for product leaders. She is fast, thoughtful and thorough and has the ability to empathize with the end user and come up with great UI/UX solutions. Another strength of Jessica is the fact that she is also very strong at communicating with developers and working with them to make sure that any required assets are delivered well ahead of when they are needed.
Samir Shah
VP Product at Yard Club (Acquired by Caterpillar)
Jess is by far one of the most talented designers I've ever worked with. Not only does she dive headlong into her work to produce high quality designs, she's also ridiculously organized and always ahead of schedule. Jess has a gift for developing alternative solutions to any design challenge or feature set and helping her customers / coworkers understand the pros and cons of each alternative to make the selection collaborative.
Aaron Kline
General Manager at Caterpillar Digital Labs
As a developer I have worked with many designers and Jessica is one of the the best. She does a great job of understanding the client's needs and translating that into development ready wireframes and comps. On projects she has been involved with she has saved us a lot of development time and headache. The result is a great user experience with a clean, professional look.
Marshall Smith
Managing Developer at Radial Development Group
Jess has helped me get my company off the ground by handling every single aspect of our startup's design, from our logo to the website to our products themselves. Jess is a true professional: In addition to always delivering premium quality work, she is a great listener, an excellent communicator, and she always seems to find a way to over-deliver on her projects. It was one of the few stress-free elements of launching my company to know that every time Jess went to work, she would deliver excellent results. I highly recommend Jess.
John Mullenholz
Founder of Aware and Secure
We hired Jessica for a complete website redesign project. Her precise level of communication is very much appreciated. The entire design process was very transparent as she set realistic expectations along the way. Because of this, the quality of her designs were spot on. We met a few times, she asked a lot of great questions and quickly delivered designs that were so much better than I imagined. After implementing Jessicaβs website designs, we quadrupled the leads coming into our website and have consistently held these results throughout the year. We are so happy with her work and look forward to all future projects with Jessica.
Corinne Oertel
Marketing Manager at Cardinal Peak Technologies