I’m Corey Hale, a UX Design Lead.
As an empathetic UX Lead with over a decade of experience, I am passionate about coaching and mentoring to build impactful, user-focused design teams. I firmly believe that cultivating partnerships and trust among cross-functional peers and stakeholders is essential for aligning UX goals with business objectives and delivering impactful user experiences.
Currently, I serve as the interim UX Design Manager for Talent HR, supporting a global team of designers through transitions, change management, and priority setting.
Portfolio projects
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Standing out
Clarity & focus
Whether it's setting a vision, defining a path forward, unblocking a risk, or simply giving effective feedback, as a leader I strive to bring clarity and focus for my team.
Mentorship & Coaching
I’ve been coaching and mentoring all my life through sports, raising a family, and at work. I commit myself to empowering others and providing the same growth and development impacts my leaders made for me.
Intangibles
- Being a helper - I'm ready and willing to dive in at any time (this is incredibly important to me).
- Finding definition and a way forward in moments of uncertainty with immense amiguity.
- I pride myself on being transparent and open as a human.
Design philosophy
It’s a human experience
On the other side of any design is a human, and we're keepers of their time. This demands much care in the strategy, design, and execution of an experience.
Collaboration is a tool
A leader and designer’s role swings to collaboration and facilitation more often than not. Forming meaningful relationships with others empowers our work and leads to success.
Room for empathy
It’s not just our users who we should have empathy for. We should also strive to empathize with our peers, partners, and team, in the design process.
(Also: Always be curious. Always be learning.)
Skill set
Soft skills
- Strategic and systems thinking
- Stakeholder management
- Team leadership, mentoring, coaching
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Effective communication & presenting
- Strategy, planning, & prioritization
Expertise
- Design thinking tools & methods
- Wireframing & prototyping
- Ideating & solutioning
- Simplifying complexity
- Defining requirements & success criteria
- Owning end-to-end design process
Tools
- Figma, Axure, Sketch, Abstract
- LucidChart, LucidSpark, Miro
- AdobeCC
- Microsoft365
- Jira, ADO
More about me
Family
We live our best life as often as we can, and it gets wild having four boys under 8. You'll find us enjoying time outdoors, playing, and gardening.
Sports
Tennis has long been my biggest passion, having played top level juniors, and NCAA at ACU. Sports mirrors life in presenting many challenges and opportunities for growth and improvement.
DIY
Maintaining a home and molding it into a space we enjoy being in has led me to woodworking and furniture building. We’re constantly juggling multiple projects and planning the next.
Food & drink
Enjoying food is arguably the best part of life (to me atleast ha), as is coffee. I’m always on the search for small local roasters to try.