About

I grew up, studied, and live in southern Indiana. I believe every word, byte, and pixel can improve how we care for each other and the earth.

During my formidable years, I dabbled in the web, coding, graphic design, and journalism.

Starting in my late undergraduate studies, I collaborated with Tony Dewan on various interactive art installations:

Those projects inspired me to stretch my design skills beyond the confines of a browser or a printed page. I continued on to a graduate degree, where I learned interaction design, user research, and how to work in teams.

My capstone project (2011) became the check-in and membership tool for a local running community. The latest active implementation is the web app OnCheckIn.

My brother Nick Basham and I pivoted the idea of OnCheckIn into a new service called Rundwn (2012), which tracked long distance running relays. Over that year, the start up life taught me about managing client relationships and business concerns.

I currently work as a senior user experience designer for Indiana University, focusing on custom enterprise web software for students, faculty, and staff. In this role, I frequently:

Feel free to get in touch.

Experience

Indiana University

Senior UX Designer, Enterprise Student Systems unit (since 2014)

  • Worked in cross-functional Agile teams to build enterprise web software for students, advisors, and faculty.
  • Conducted user research and analysis.
  • Produced sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and production code.
  • Presented design concepts to stakeholders for feedback and buy-in.
  • Contributed to the university design system and development standards.
  • Hired, trained, and mentored: coworkers, graduate assistants, and interns.
  • Facilitated meetings for the design community of practice and the accessibility working group.

UX Designer, Kuali Foundation organization (2013–2014)

  • Worked with an international coalition of designers and software teams on the Kuali Student project.

UI Designer, Process Experience Architecture team (2012–2013)

  • Designed mockups and built interactive prototypes, exploring student dashboard concepts.

IxDA Bloomington meetup

Co-organizer (2013–2016)

  • Organized topical and networking events for the local design community.

BitHouse Design

Co-founder (2011–2012)

  • Built a service and iPhone app (Rundwn) for tracking long-distance relay races and sharing live-results with coordinators, runners, and spectators.

LexisNexis

UX Design Intern (2010)

  • Designed interactive visualizations for users of Lexis search products.
  • Co-invented a patent for visualizing search terms across a set of documents.

IUPUI Pervasive Technology Labs

Multimedia Developer Intern (2008–2009)

  • Researched and developed motion, color, and symbol tracking algorithms to explore the limits of video processing and analysis in ActionScript 3.

Lakeview Church

Web Developer Volunteer (2007–2009)

  • Converted content management system to WordPress.
  • Developed WordPress themes and Flash podcast player.
  • Assisted with various network administration activities.

A Beautiful Question

Web Developer Intern (2008)

  • Collaborated with clients to develop WordPress themes and Adobe AIR applications.

Education

  • M.S. Human-Computer Interaction Design (Indiana University, 2011)
  • B.S. Media Arts & Sciences (IUPUI, 2009)
    Summa Cum Laude, General Honors
  • Minor Computer & Information Science (IUPUI, 2009)

Skills

  • Agile Scrum methodology
  • Mentoring (designers and developers)
  • Prototyping (Figma, code, paper)
  • Accessibility (ARIA)
  • Responsive, mobile-first design
  • User research (exploratory, evaluative)
  • Design systems (IU Rivet)
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Node.js
  • Rendering libraries (React, Svelte)
  • Reactive programming (RxJS)
  • Version control (Git)