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 undergrad studies, I collaborated with Tony Dewan on various interactive art installations:
- Ping Platform (2008)
- Waterwall (2009)
- Balloon Park (2013)
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:
- contribute to the Rivet Design System (more on design systems)
- write articles for and participate in the user experience community of practice
- speak and run workshops at the Statewide IT Conference
- mentor interns, graduate assistants, designers, and developers
- steer standards for design, front-end development, and accessibility practices
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)