Hello, I’m lenora. designer, community builder, and coder.

As a creative, your canvas is limitless. Whether that's providing solutions for the community you serve, designing applications for clients, or bringing your designs to life with a few lines of code, you are a creative.

currently in

Miami, Florida

who am i?

A Product Designer who finds joy in creating with a deliberate and curious mindset. Currently, I'm pushing all the pixels around at Heroku (Salesforce). When I'm not analyzing my design decisions, I'm creating content for my design Facebook group Black Women in UX Design, YouTube, and Twitch. Don't worry, I take breaks from this design life to focus on traveling, painting, and enjoying culture.

sAY helloi!

My Story

Without a technical background, I hustled my way into tech and redefined what it means to be a multi-passionate creative in a world of technology. I've blended my passion for fine art, technology, and psychology into a lucrative career called Product Design. During the day, I translate business requirements into beautiful app design. By night, I'm inspiring others through my Instagram design tutorials (@lenora.porter) and informative blog post. My creative contributions can be seen if you take a look at apps from top companies like Levis, Magic Leap, Under Armour, Virgin Hotels, Cleveland Clinic, Sephora, Kate Spade, and BCBG just to name a few. Currently, I am a Product Designer leading the way for IDT Corporation’s mobile design team.

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Experience

Sept 2019 — Present

Front-End Engineer

// Heroku - Salesforce

Areas of focus: NPS Survey, feature implementation, component libraries, pagination, and etc.

Sept 2018 — Sept 2019

sr. product Designer

// Heroku - Salesforce

Areas of focus: Gaining feedback from users (NPS Survey), UX audits, creation of our first Human Interface Guideline, expansion of our design system, qualitative and quantitative data.

Mar 2017— Aug 2018

sr. product Designer

//Net2Phone - IDT

In the wake of Live Ninja's acquisition, I was hired to lead the design efforts for the Mobile Design team. After creating a coherent design system and Net2Phone brand, we launched in 2018.

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From Agency work to enterprise product

Designing for an agency and designing for enterprise software can be similar yet different. There's a different mindset you'll have to adopt when building a cohesive company identity and establishing the company's design process.

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UX DESIGN TEAM OF ONE

As a UX design team of one, you wear many hats. You juggle the UI design of the application, the user experience across platforms, web development, marketing and social media strategy. It was a lot of work but I learned how to fail fast and depend on my users for guidance.

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EVOLVING FROM STARTUP TO AN ACQUIRED COMPANY

As a Senior Product Designer, I found myself applying design thinking to design team management. My role was more than designing for our users. It became a quest to seek efficient design process, structure, and team collaboration.

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sUSTAINING THE HERE AND NOW

As a Senior Product Designer (1 year), I focused a lot of my efforts around evaluating the current design system, auditing our product and diving deep into the experience inconsistencies. This journey brought forth process improvements, UX/Accessibility audits, qualitative/quantitative data, and an expansion of our design system. As a Front End Developer (current), my duties hold true but they've shifted to full-implementation rather than pixel creation.

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Sometimes, I sit in front of my camera and record videos, teaching others about design and prototyping. I have moments where I live stream broadcasting my journey toward building small JavaScript apps, design systems, high-fidelity mockups, and more. Personally, connecting to a community of folks who've watched as I curated my career from the ground up is quite rewarding. Sharing my journey is the least I can do.

Career

20 Pieces of Anti-Racist Content (Books, Films, and Podcast)

This week has been hard for all of us but I thought providing a few anti-racism resources would be what some need!

Design

14 Free Games to Help you Become a Better Web Designer

To diversify my learning, I usually find games to play to stimulate my mind. I am lucky that there are web design focused and web development focused games that I can play to help me train my eye and knowledge on the topics I think I know.

Development

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Ember

Learning EmberJS :: Week 2

Scheduling my morning routine to include my hardest task. This change has made me extremely productive. Everyone should totally allow space in their schedule to handle hard task first no matter how daunting they may be.