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 w...

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 t...

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

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 cr...

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 activit...

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

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 list...

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

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...

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. T...

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

This week at Stanford I taught high schoolers the Design Thinking process and UX principles. Many people have asked me what I have observ...

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

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 p...

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

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