Recommendations
XBE
Trayvax Enterprises
“I had the pleasure of working regularly with Nikki, and I'd recommend her without hesitation.
As a designer, Nikki was great at bridging design and engineering. She was consistently flexible in finding solutions that fit our technical constraints without sacrificing taste, which made her a real partner to our developers.
She also handled a fast-moving environment well. When priorities shifted, which they often did, Nikki adapted without missing a beat and always put the team's goals first.
Above all, she was a genuine pleasure to work with: kind, collaborative, and easy to work alongside. Looking forward to watching her successes!“
— Nick Campion, CTO, Engineering and Product Leader for AI/ML Software, XBE
“I’ve had the opportunity to work with Nikki on several UI and workflow improvements. She has a real talent for taking a complex process and turning it into a clear, intuitive experience for the user.
Nikki is thoughtful in her approach, receptive to feedback, and highly collaborative. She asks good questions, considers how people will actually use what we’re building, and translates those insights into polished, practical designs. Her work consistently helped our team see a better path forward, and she is a pleasure to collaborate with. I would gladly recommend Nikki to any team looking for a skilled and dependable UI/UX designer.”
— Brittany Blawn, Product Manager, XBE
“Nikki has a great eye for design, which she has applied to a range of marketing and branding projects at BCMI - from print ads to product videos. She clearly enjoys the art of design, and always offers several concepts / mock-ups for consideration on a new project. It’s been a pleasure to collaborate and brainstorm with her since she always brings fresh ideas to the discussion.
Although Nikki’s knowledge of design software is impressive, she is also open to learning new tools. She is organized and deadline-conscious, which is extremely helpful when working on team projects and setting delivery expectations.
Nikki is very detail-oriented, and she is careful to keep our design assets consistent across our products, as well as marketing assets including presentations, ads and website elements. She plays a key role in guiding and maintaining our brand standards across the board.”
— Shelby O. Mitchell, VP of Marketing, XBE
“Working with Nikki over the last few years has been great. She is a critical component of the team and always delivers her best work. Nikki works as head of the design team and consistently provides extremely well done and thought out mockups and brand design projects. She is self-motivated and self-managing, I can trust her to meet any deadline. Nikki's best attribute in my opinion is her problem solving, she has a real interest in understanding the issue at hand and devising the best solution with available tools. A careful eye for UI has given our company a clean and functional look considering the amount of data and tools available. I would absolutely recommend Nikki to be a part of any team or project.”
— Erik Lovelace, Product Manager, XBE
“Nikki is a talented designer and communicator. Nikki has a strength for making things look great, but always keeps a focus on function and usability when building UIs. From my experience working with Nikki, I believe her greatest strength is her diligence in developing, refining, and documenting visual systems for both brands and software products.
Whenever products or early ideas needed to be polished to pixel-perfect designs, Nikki would always bring detailed and actionable specs. I have watched Nikki take ownership over a large and cohesive design system, refine the system, and expand it into new territories. This design system was made to work across iOS, Android, and web across any device size. Nikki’s work has been able to increase our ability to execute quickly on product ideas while ensuring they are always actionable, unified, and refined. Nikki communicates well in both technical abilities when building UIs and qualitative design spaces and can help bridge the gap between those realms. Nikki was a steadfast champion for the design system and appearance within the product and routinely helped the developers with detailed redlines, specs and new elements.
Nikki also has a strong talent for visual brand cohesion. Nikki’s attention to details and brand sense combined with the ability to build a unified look has helped our company move early brand ideas into new realms without the need for outside help.
I will miss our valuable debates about usability, design elements, element states and choices, layouts, aesthetics, and Star Trek episodes.”
— Adam Thiesen, VP Product Design, BCMI Corp (currently XBE)
McGraw-Hill Education
Amazon
"I have had the pleasure of collaborating with Nikki on numerous projects. She is considerate and to the point. She successfully managed day-to-day tasks while staying focused on priority projects. Nikki has a quiet confidence that comes through in her work. She is organized, making it easy to pass on her work to teammates. Any business would be lucky to have Nikki as a contributing member."
— Miranda Lee, Financial Assistant & Supply Chain Manager, Trayvax Enterprises
"Nikki is so great to work with. She has a very keen eye for design and is great at establishing and adhering to brand standards while producing attractive and high quality work. I learned a lot from her design direction and would highly recommend her as a top tier graphic and web designer."
— Thomas Stoneham-Judge, Marketing Assistant, Trayvax Enterprises
“Nikki is a productive perfectionist. She has created a new art form through combining graphic design and product management.
Her range of graphic design skills is astounding. As a startup company, everything was demanded of her and she delivered perfection time and time again. Nikki's projects ranged from designing packaging, creating newsletters and promotional emails, making our catalog, creating landing pages, redesigning the website, and so much more.
When tasked with redesigning our website Nikki demonstrated her project management skills by leading the website developers, creating timelines, organizing project tasks and relevant parties and ensuring every detail was outlined. She lead the charge on creating our brand voice through strenuous research and collaboration with our consultants.
It was an honor work with and learn from Nikki. I wish her the best and hope we get to work together again one day."
— Kevin Kohn, Marketing Content Manager, Trayvax Enterprises
“When we started the process of looking for a Graphic Designer we had some pretty specific needs in mind. At the time, we were still in the start-up phase and didn’t have any brand standards or guidelines in place. Most of the designers that we interviewed had your basic design skills, but we needed someone who could build an entire Graphic Design team from the ground-up.
Not only did we have a lot of foundational work to do, but we also wanted a graphic designer that could work with our developers to begin an entire website redesign. We needed someone with the design skills to come up with comps and someone that had a background working with other developers (those developer types are a unique breed).
After spending months interviewing designer after designer, we finally net Nikki. It was clear from the start that she was exactly what we needed and that she would make a great fit. Nikki has a keen eye for design, had experience working with developers and website comps, and she was excited and ready to take on the challenge of building our Graphic Design team from the ground-up.
Here we are 1-year later and I can honestly say, we made the best decision ever. The developers are always commenting on her clean designs and fine attention to detail. There is no detail that Nikki overlooks. At the same time, she’s aware of timelines and is able to deliver on time. It’s rare that you find a graphic designer that is both quick, but still highly-detail oriented. Thank you Nikki for all that you do. You are an invaluable member of this team and we appreciate every day that you’re here.”
— Gerald Craft, Marketing and Communications Manager, Trayvax Enterprises
T-Mobile
SeniorHomes (a division of Moseo Corp)
"It has been a pleasure working with Nikki! She has great attention to detail and has done a very good job of organizing a team website of resources along with juggling many other projects that involve tasks from minor maintenance to converting a Flash user experience to an HTML5 user experience. She made a smooth transition from working in our offices to telecommuting on a daily basis. Nikki would be a valuable asset to any team."
— Krissie O'Donnell, User Experience Designer, McGraw Hill
"Nikki is a talented user-experience designer who is extremely organized, reliable and easy to work with. She is self-motivated, articulate and accomplishes a lot with little direction. It's been a pleasure working with Nikki over the past year."
— Kristin Durall, Senior UX Designer, McGraw Hill
Alaska Airlines
"Nikki and I collaborate on many projects at T-Mobile. She is a very skilled designer, an organized and enthusiastic colleague, and has been a contributor to our team since day one.
Nikki amazes me – she works incredibly fast. She organizes large, long-term projects with ease and keeps a level head in high-pressure situations. She volunteers to take on difficult projects and remains open to feedback. Nothing gets past her – she's incredibly detail oriented and all of her designs adhere to brand guidelines.
Her boundless creativity shines through in all of her designs. I worked with Nikki on creating web assets for T-Mobile's heart month promotion and she delivered an exceptional design that resulted in a large sales boost. This is just one example.
Working with Nikki is a pleasure and I would whole-heartedly recommend her to anyone."
— Amanda Halm, Copywriter (Contract), T-Mobile
"Nikki and I have worked on many projects together at T-Mobile and she is a fantastic person to work with. An insightful team player, Nikki is able to merge the sometimes diverging business needs together with brand guidelines through smart design work and creativity.
Recently, we worked together on a heart month program in February 2013. Nikki was instrumental in the success of this project as she was able to design a set of assets that were featured across the T-Mobile site. Her design featured clear calls to action that helped us acchieve an over 50% lift in sales on the featured products for this program.
It has been a pleasure working with Nikki and I am happy to recommend her and her work."
— Heather Monkman, Senior E-Commerce Category Manager, T-Mobile
"Nikki worked with SeniorHomes.com for about 5 months as our primary web designer. Nikki did a great job. Her designs are great and she is very detail oriented. Because of her background doing some front end coding/html, she understands what our developer needed after we had finalized a design."
— Chris Rodde, Co-Founder & CEO, SeniorHomes
"I worked with Nikki on several design projects she did for us at SeniorHomes.com, and was thoroughly impressed. The designs that she provided us were creative, while being on brand - a combination that can be difficult. It was clear that Nikki understood the current trends in UX and properly implemented these concepts into the designs she provided us. Additionally her deliverables contained everything the developer team needed for implementation, which was greatly appreciated."
— Ken Ploeger, Web Developer, SeniorHomes
“I met Nikki while working onsite at Alaska Airlines as an email marketing manager during a short term contract. Nikki started a little after I did and I really enjoyed working with her.
Nikki is friendly, creative, energetic, works quickly without compromising on quality and as a marketer; I really valued collaborating with her. My only complaint is that I didn’t get a chance to work with her longer.
I look forward to any future opportunity to work with Nikki in any capacity and highly recommend her. She brings organized solutions to every design challenge presented and that can translate well into any marketing environment.”
— Rosemary C. Kaehrle, Email Manager
“I collaborated with Nikki on a variety of graphics for alaskaair.com and she was great to work with. Her designs were often spot on to begin with and if they weren't what I had in mind or I wanted to try some other ideas, she was very easy to work with on any changes. Sometimes I would gather some feedback from a few other folks and then went to her asking for what I thought was just one more change, which turned into several, but she was always patient and understanding. She's a great, creative mind to have around, and quick to turn things around, too!”
— Liz Aderhold, User Experience Researcher
“While Nikki was at Alaska Airlines, my team often had her assist with creative deliverables for our online media placements. Nikki produced quality work for us–by deadline, and usually on short notice. Nikki took feedback and direction well. We found her to be approachable and easy to work with.”
— Tara Meehan, Manager, Online Media
Contract and Freelance
“Nikki was an absolute joy to work with. She has efficient communication, is friendly and easy going, very helpful and has a great work ethic along with the quality of her work. I hope to work with her again in the near future!”
— Linda Kim, Senior Designer, Amazon
“Nikki is a friendly, articulate designer with professional creative experience within a variety of organizations. As a recruiter, Nikki and I have been in touch off and on regarding various opportunities, and she’s always a pleasure to work with – personable and clearly passionate about design with a strong attention to detail that really makes a difference. Recently hired on at our client, SeniorHomes.com, we continue to hear great things about Nikki’s work.”
— Carlie (McCoy) Bongers, client