About Me
I’m a user experience design leader and interactive creative director with 20+ years experience. I have a proven track record of building excellent design teams by recruiting and retaining talented people. I have a history of successful relationship building with business stakeholders and partnering for strategic alignment to meet both business and user needs with proven, quantifiable results.
- Name: Josh Gravholt
- Email: josh@gravholtdesign.com
- Phone: (703) 336-9944
Skills
Experience Design Leadership
- User-centered Design
- Storyboarding/Storytelling
- Information Architecture
- Research/Usability Plans
- User Interview/Surveys/Testing
- Experience Mapping (Service, User, Story, Customer)
Creative Direction
- Interactive Branding
- Leading Brainstorm/Design Sessions
- Interpersonal Skills, Design Critique
- Interactive and Data-rich Application Design (Sketch, XD, Figma)
- Visual Design (Adobe Creative Suite)
Digital Strategy
- Design Systems, Pattern Libraries, Style Guides
- Desktop and Mobile, Responsive Design
- Mobile Application Strategy
- SEC, SOC, HIPPA, 508-Compliance
- SASS Product Evaluation
- Personas
Marketing
- Content Strategy
- CMS (Content Management Systems- WordPress, Oracle UCM)
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization- natural, Yoast, MOZ)
- Direct Marketing (Mailchimp, Mandrill, Hubspot)
- CRM (Client Relationship Management- Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics)
Software Development
- Agile Software Development, Scrum
- Agile UX, Lean UX
- Wireframing (White Boarding, Balsamiq)
- Prototyping (Paper, InVision, Craft)
- Process Flows (Visio)
- Software Development Life Cycle
Product Management & Analytics
- Web User Analytics (Google Analytics, AppDynamics)
- Executive Dashboards (Power BI)
- Product Team Collaboration (Jive, Slack, Basecamp)
- Roadmap & Project Management (Jira, Confluence, Hipchat)
Interactive Branding
Expert, 15+ Years Experience
Team Management & Leadership
Expert, 11+ years experience
User Experience Design
Expert, 15+ Years Experience
Interactive Marketing
Expert, 11+ Years Experience
Education
Awards & Recognition
Recent Blog
How do I measure the effectiveness of my content? It's easy to fall back on soft metrics like “page views” and “shares” or anecdotes about how...
Enterprise UX Skills Along with the Individual UX Skills, teams now need skills to enhance their value across the enterprise. User experience extends beyond the...
There are some common misconceptions about web user analytics terms. I've been thinking of this a lot lately because I was recently asked "Does installing...
Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don’t have to worry about what will happen. Instead, they know what will happen based on earlier experience.