Katie Apone

Katie Apone

Product Designer | West coast remote

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Projects

 

Increasing transparency for users during a sensitive time

Meta occasionally asks advertisers to confirm their identity to help ensure that advertisers are who they say they are. Our team re-designed this experience to make sure advertisers understood why they were being asked to confirm their identity and the value of doing so.

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Making an important feature more discoverable

A key feature for small businesses on Meta was buried inside a complex modal flow and had little context on why it was important and easy to do. Our team re-designed this experience so that small businesses could access and understand the tools they need to be more successful.

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Leading a startup to build their first MVP

I worked directly with the CEO of a startup alongside another UX designer to define a product strategy from the ground up. Based on a market opportunity, I led the team with an MVP mindset to create and ship a beta product in 6 months.

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Building on existing work instead of re-inventing the wheel

As one of the earliest employees at Code.org, I developed the idea to build an online learning portal for teachers based on our existing learning platform for students. I presented the idea to our team and gained buy-in to build this for the teachers we served.

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Things to know about me

  • I’ve been working in UX for over 10 years

  • I dabble in programming

  • Most of my favorite foods fall in the crunchy category

 

 

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Drop me a line.