Nate Ude

I am Nate Ude a UX Designer and a UI engineer. I am passionate about problem solving, on the web and in everyday life.

Projects

I have many skills like cooking over campfires and drinking coffee. But more to the point, skills related to being a UI engineer on the modern web. Here are a few projects I have been working on recently:

RyeDoodle.com

Worked with local owner to design a playful brand, website and swag for her dog training and boarding business.

  • Branding,
  • UI,
  • UX,
  • & Development

Dynamic Journeys - Design System

Created a theme based component system to allow for quick deployment of new component based websites.

  • UI
  • & UX

RushmoreCurling.com

Deisgned a new modern logo and website for a local curling club, to help promote the club and allow for better memeber interactions.

  • Branding,
  • UI,
  • UX
  • & Development

OMF - Design System Lite

A simplified design system created to work as a base, to coordinate components across several already exisiting websites.

  • UI
  • & UX

Gaebler.com

A brand refresh with website design to allow the owner to reuse templates to out put consistent usable content.

  • Branding,
  • UI
  • & UX

Deborah Ude

Worked with the author to define an ellegant brand and book design to reflect her style and goals as a writer.

  • Branding
  • & Print

About Me

I am a typical outdoors kind of design nut designing UX flows driven by research and data while spending my free time hiking and camping in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Prior to starting my career, I attended the University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire, where I graduated with a BA emphasizing graphic design. My career started as an intern in Madison, WI, with a local designer, Matt Schaser, working with clients on print and web projects.

I figured out how to use online forums combined with trial and error to learn how to pick up coding languages. I moved through HTML, CSS, JavaScript to WordPress and PHP. I have since moved on to Ruby on Rails for a back end platform that allows me to spin up apps quickly.

My day to day has moved me back towards design, to focus on the UX and UI for a small in house product team. As the Lead UX I make it my passion to work directly with our data team and UX research to understand the real needs of our end users and advocate for them to the business. I also work hard to communicate with the engineering team to give them insight and voice in the product decisions.

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