Word on the street is...
Listen -- getting to know someone can be tricksy. I can say I'm collaborative, a team player, and that I've found a way to teleport - but it's always good to hear it from peers. You'd quickly learn, I have not found a way to teleport.
David Kopet
UX Manager
AT DELUXE FINANCIAL
“Danielle is one of the best I've seen at being able to juggle a multitude of complex, loosely-defined problems and make sense of them, not only for herself, but for everyone else involved. A UX Designer & Researcher by trade, Danielle also exhibits the skillset of an effective Project Manager & Strategist, making her a unique hybrid of the two. She has the rare ability to keep initiatives on track by being reliable, proactive, communicative and collaborative, making her an indispensable asset to any team. She also cares deeply and invests herself in everything she touches, and that passion radiates to others around her, making her a natural leader and culture-changer.
She's hands down one of the most effective UX Designers I've ever had the pleasure working with.”
Oliver Lawford
Product Manager
at Careerbuilder
"Danielle is one of the best designers I've worked with. She is collaborative, inventive, thoughtful, and customer-obsessed. Further, she is perhaps the most productive contributor on the UX team who not only outputs a tremendous amount of high-quality work but is a great assist to more junior members on the team.
As a Product Manager, I truly appreciate the fact that she understands the real constraints we face in software development, whether those be technical, resource, or problem constraints. She doesn't get lost for weeks pursuing "pie in the sky" ideas that will never happen, instead she designs that are feasible and useful while still delighting customers."
Rachael Dudziak
Visual Designer
at Careerbuilder
"Danielle has been the most impactful mentor I have had during my time at CB. I came in with very little experience in the world of UX and from day 1 she has gone above and beyond in helping me gain experience as quickly as possible. This has been through continuous feedback during design reviews, our work done on Talent Discovery (specifically projects related to the Jobs to Be Done and the Candidate Details Page in CB Search), and the exploration I did on our interaction standards. Danielle pushed me to think bigger and challenge myself with design. She has also been a great example of how to build impactful relationships with people within and outside our team. She has been instrumental in building a positive culture of UX during the last 2 years. She has done this by leading numerous design sessions that included UX, product, and dev as well as taking the time to set up 1:1s to make sure that all teams are aligned."
Tonya Mompoint
Director of Agile Development
at Careerbuilder
"Danelle is an amazing lead designer. She is always available for scoping sessions when the product and engineering team need advisement on how to best approach solving user pain. She asks provoking questions to challenge the thought process of all product development initiatives, which helps me greatly to ensure we commit to the right scope at the right time. One specific example that comes to mind is our most recent scoping session on a new feature set which is a part of the company's major initiative to revolutionize our consumer mobile app. Danielle attended a work breakdown session and led the team through concept mocks that she has designed along with the UX team with very clear details. She listened to the feedback from our product owners and engineers to find the best balance between the research results of the concept and technical feasibility. She was very collaborative in this session with the product team which helped us to come up with a feasible V1 scope to attempt to deliver in Q1. Without Danielle, that session would have been less productive and we would have likely missed the user intent.
She showed extreme leadership capability, balancing the needs of the user with the requests of the product development team when the concepts and research findings were challenged. I look forward to more work breakdown sessions with Danielle."
Brandon Tripp
Mobile Consumer Engineering Lead
at Careerbuilder
"You have definitely made me and the team feel like we mattered. This is very important in a leader. You never want to come off as you are telling someone else to do. You have a good way of letting us voice our concerns, and pushing back at the same time. You have done a great job leading your team with the UX work. You have done great at coming over and collaborating and coordinating with us in order to solve problems quickly. you are a leader in the room when we break down epics and task them out. You definitely lead by example and you have shown you can do it. If you are not a lead currently, you definitely should be one.
You are very open-minded and upfront with developers. This is great because we can cut to the chase and get the job done efficiently. You did a very good job of setting up a 1 on 1 with me in order to make us feel like our opinion mattered. At the same time, you also used it as a time to let us know how you want to work as well. Your communication is great. Working with you has been a joy. I wish we would have started working with you earlier. You have been great in the short time that we have worked with you. Far better than what we have worked with before regarding UX. I hope that we can continue working with you going forward."