Being a Red Hatter allows me to be my authentic self. I’m leveraging my background in design and carving a career path for myself and my team, which is unique to Red Hat. I am encouraged to create a vision, take risks, and explore new ways of operating and using new technology, while collaborating on all this with my team, not dictating it.

We bake collaboration into our process. No one person is solely on discovery but we explore and enter into the work together. Each milestone requires steps that allows collaboration and feedback from UX Producers, UX Designers and UX Engineers. It’s taken practice and many years, but now it comes naturally to bring in different disciplines and groups. We are creating a demo culture where sharing things that are still in progress and not yet polished to large groups are celebrated.

My team focuses on the quality of the user experience and interactivity. We are detailed and specific on ensuring experiences are intuitive and accessible by all users. This includes ensuring there are checks in place before, during and after publishing. We are grateful to have an accessibility subject matter expert on our team. With their help, we've collaborated on checklists to standardize on accessibility best practices to create more accessible experiences for our users.