Founder, User Experience Strategy, Research & Design Consultant at Red Pill UX

Eva Kaniasty

Boston, MA

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I am an independent consultant specializing in user experience strategy, design, and research for complex websites & web applications.

Contact me to arrange a free presentation, Fashioning the User Experience, an introduction to user experience design concepts for business and product design stakeholders.

Specialties: User Experience Strategy, Training, Facilitation, Interaction Design, Usability Testing, User Research, Information Architecture, Prototyping, Wireframing, Requirements-Gathering.

Key Industries: Healthcare, Education, Financial Services, High Tech.
Education
- Non-degree Entrepreneurship
  
  Harvard University
  
  2008 - 2008
- MS Human Factors
  
  Bentley University
  
  2005 - 2007
- Certificate Web Development
  
  Clark University
  
  2001 - 2001
- BA Psychology
  
  Boston University
  
  1992 - 1996
Experience
- President
  
  UXPA Boston
  
  Apr 2011 - Present (13 years 7 months)
  
  User Experience Professionals Association, Boston chapter.
  President: 2013-present
  Vice President 2011-2012
- Founder & User Experience Principal
  
  Red Pill UX, LLC
  
  Oct 2010 - Present (14 years 1 month)
  
  User experience consulting, including strategy, usability testing, information architecture, and user research. My areas of focus include healthcare, education, startups, and user experience design for behavior change.
  
  Recent clients include WBUR Cognoscenti (with Toth Inc), Pro Teck, Children's Hospital Boston, ConnectEDU, Cengage & Proximity Labs.
- Director of Information Architecture
  
  SimpleTuition
  
  Jan 2010 - Nov 2010 (10 months)
  
  Responsible for all aspects of User Experience at a financial/education services startup, including user research, IA, interaction design, and usability testing.
- Information Architect
  
  SimpleTuition
  
  Sep 2007 - Jan 2010 (2 years 4 months)
- UI Designer/Webmaster
  
  Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP)
  
  Jan 2006 - Sep 2007 (1 year 8 months)
  
  Responsible for user experience of the corporate website, www.nhp.org, serving the health plan’s members, providers, and other customers.
- Usability Consultant
  
  Bentley Design and Usability Center
  
  Jan 2006 - May 2007 (1 year 4 months)
  
  • Worked with a variety of corporate clients at a usability consulting practice affiliated with Bentley College
  • Involved in a range of user experience activities, including moderating usability tests, conducting expert reviews, developing personas and user requirements, information architecture, and writing proposals.
  • Partial Client List: Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Bose, CVS, Raytheon, RSA Security, SAP, Upromise
- UI Developer
  
  Merlin One
  
  Aug 2005 - Jan 2006 (5 months)
  
  Created user interfaces for newspaper industry web applications.
- Webmaster
  
  Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP)
  
  Jul 2001 - Jul 2005 (4 years)
- Web Consultant
  
  Rational /IBM
  
  2000 - 2001 (1 year)
  
  • Developed and launched three online technical newsletters
  • Hand-coded monthly issues of online magazine, www.therationaledge.com
  • Assisted Marketing department with Perl/CGI programming needs
- Research Assistant
  
  Human Services Research Institute (HSRI)
  
  Mar 1998 - Jun 1999 (1 year 3 months)
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Vice President, UPA Boston
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Assistant Professor - Educator, Industrial Design, Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design

Assistant Professor, Graphic Design