Home - Judy Siegel - UX Designer

About Me

Drive + Empathy + Humor

I became a UX Designer after studying digital media (particularly interactive narratives), media studies and film. I see UX and design thinking as a natural progression of my previous interests.

I believe well-crafted user experiences can actually change the world, introducing design thinking and solutions to difficult and far-reaching problems that can deeply affect people’s lives. I have experience working at large software and media companies, start-ups and non-profit organizations.

I want my career to be defined by growth, collaboration, leadership and creativity. I think these goals are best best achieved by working with good people. I like to think that while I bring a defined skillset to the table, my biggest assets are my ability to empathize, with both stakeholders and coworkers, and my sense of humor.

As you can see from the picture at the left, I am not a fan of taking pictures of myself.

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2015/2016, MSNBC

MSNBC Homepage Redesign

Brainstorming and iterating around possible redesigns for MSNBC’s homepage. COMING SOON!

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2016/MSNBC

Continental Drift

Partnership with Magnum photography to document the refugee crisis across the world. Project spanned 10 chapter and 6 months.

COMING SOON!

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2015, Blue Ridge Labs

Nova

During a full-time summer fellowship at Blue Ridge Labs, myself and a developer and a product manager built a web app prototype for low-income New Yorkers. We interviewed dozens of people about their day-to-day lives to discover their problems and possible project ideas, and ending up designing a web app that let restaurants post available shift work.

By taking a customer-centric approach and iterating quickly and cheaply, the fellowship aimed to build products that can really make a difference.

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2013-2015, CNN

CNN Responsive Redesign

A complete responsive redesign of CNN.com. Goals included highlighting the breadth of content that CNN offers, providing new CMS functional to editors and writers and highlighting breaking and contextual news.

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2014, CNN

CNN app

Redesign and update of the CNN app.

2013, CNN

CMS

Overhaul of proprietary CMS system that drives publishing to all platforms.