process Archives | Peter Spannagle

08 Feb

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User Centric Methods, Machine Learning and Facebook Recruiting

I worked onsite at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, CA from May to December 2018. I embedded with a team that builds internal recruiting tools. The team’s purpose was to increase the efficiency of sourcing via machine learning technologies. As a consultant, my job was to uncover the reason for low adoption of machine learning, revise product strategy, and build + execute on a new roadmap. Our key metric was claims per recruiter.

11 Jan

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Blockchain Advisor: Product Management and Design Consulting

From 9/2018 to 6/2019 I was part of the 12-person seed-stage team at FalconX, working on v1 product and identity. The company is now an $8b unicorn with 300 employees, providing blockchain-based financial services.

20 Jan

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Principal UX Architect for a growing mobile agency

As Principal UX Architect at Mobiquity (a mobile agency with ~450 employees and 12 offices in 4 countries), I pitched and won work, served as the primary liaison for clients and led my own creative team of 6-10. This case study presents highlights, including: Human Longevity Inc, Taco Bell, TOM’s and Keenan.

14 Sep

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Creative Team Management

Here is a handy tool for tracking creative deliverables. I worked as both Project Manager and UX Architect on two projects over the last 3 months. We had an informal system of verbal check-ins to understand the status of a given item. While this worked just fine for our small team, we had no “big picture” view and ran the risk of missing something that had been requested or promised as we rushed to deliver, refine and evolve.

I believe in using the minimum structure necessary to accomplish our goals. We need a tight knit team with good communication, an in-person, human centered and participatory process. But in order to contribute to our PM toolbox, and as a design challenge, I whipped this up in a couple hours. Feel free to have a look: Creative Team Project Management (Spreadsheet)

10 Jun

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Style Guide

Here you can see my initial research and prep for creating a style guide.

First I identified all the unique styles on each page for each page of our product. Then I superimposed and connected the specific CSS and HTML that create these styles. Yellow highlighting (with green numbers) indicates a heading, blue highlighting (with yellow numbers) indicates a button or label. Then I stepped back and thought about what is vs what should be. If you look at page 1, it’s clear that we should improve our semantic use of headings. By seeing everything together in one place, we are encouraged to take a more comprehensive and unified approach to our buttons and labels.
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