Lisa Ratner

This summer I took a week long workshop at CIID (The Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design). With designers from all over the world we delved into what ...

From a young age, I’ve been drawn to optimization and frustrated by inefficiency. Today I am a UX Designer and Researcher for the civic tech non-profit Code ...

Today I explored different visual design / branding approaches for the transportation app I am working on. Typically you want to produce 4 moodboards: One th...

Incorporating GIFs into InVision makes it an incredibly powerful prototyping tool. I can't wait to use it for transitions. #prototyping

Keas asked me to conduct a usability audit of their homepage.

Currently I am working towards a certificate in Visual Design at General Assembly and today we worked on Moodboards. The prompt was to create a design brief ...

One of my favorite UX events is the monthly XX UX meetups which are geared to level up women in UX. They have a variety of fun UX activities and this one was...

Today I prototyped a sticky navbar and I have assembled instructions on how to do so using conditional statements with Axure. This video shows what the final...

Every month I attend Cascade's UX Night to mingle with other UX Designers and hear experts in the field present. Last night I got to listen to Sahil Lavingia...

Google Ventures UX Designer Braden Kowitz gave a talk at Cascade's UX Night called Design Feedback & Presenting Ideas. Here are some of my takeaways: Discove...

Here is a site map I designed for my portfolio website. Site maps are a great tool to envision all the elements that are going to be on a site and to how ele...

This summer I've been teaching UX to high schoolers through Digital Media Academy at Stanford and I have been blown away by their work. These are a few mood ...

For this project, I considered the sort of metrics Uber drivers would want at their fingertips. The BEST and NEW reviews section is intended to empower them w...

This week at Stanford I taught high schoolers the Design Thinking process and UX principles. Many people have asked me what I have observed about this new ge...

This is a great book if you want a summary of the psycholocial research studies that relate to human computer interaction and design. Summaries are great bec...

I participated in the Protohack Hackathon where in one day my group came up with a concept, produced a prototype, and presented it to a panel. The travel2cha...

Approach I applied Relay Rides' updated business practices to their customer reservation form. I also enhanced the usability and branding. #transportationapp...

This was a project I worked on through UC Berkeley's Urban Planning Summer Institute. We interviewed public transit riders, bicyclists, and pedestrians to as...