• Hi, I’m
    Natalie Berman

    An IBM Design Thinking Practitioner with 15+ years of expertise in UX & UI design.

  • My focus is
    on user needs

    Identifying the pain points, generating the Big Ideas, iterating on the user stories and testing usability of designs.

  • My goal is
    beautiful user experience

    Making designs functional, intuitive, clear and consistent.

My story

As a UI/UX Designer and Prototyper working at IBM Design Studio in Markham since Jan. 2013, I am responsible for all aspects of our product designs: user and industry research; ideation and storyboarding; wireframing; prototyping and usability testing; hi-fi visual design and style guidelines.

Please view the details of my IBM projects and portfolio samples, as well as my  previous portfolios.

UX/UI Design

Prototype

Illustration

Research

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  • 2018 - current:  IBM Watson Supply Chain / Marketing sales:
Interactive Axure Demos: 
  • IBM Watson Supply Chain –Order Management Self Service on Innovation Cloud - An interactive self-serve e-learning
  • MOL Group - international oil and gas company website - MOL - e-commerce Website
  • WMI Interactive Demo - IBM demo on IBM.com - Self-guided/Use case with WalkMe tour
  • WMI Interactive Demo - IBM demo on Axure-Share - Self-guided WMI/CA demo
  • IBM WCE-shell, Tools, Top Pages, Notification, Ask Watson - Self-guided WCE demo
  • IBM Tealeaf Product demo - An interactive Image only demo with WalkMe tour
  • IBM UBX Capture - An interactive UBX demo with sound and WalkMe tour
  • IBM CXA - Analyzing Journey Stages - An interactive Demo with animated gif background with WalkMe tour

  • Interactive Axure components: 
  • Carbon style guide components - An interactive Carbon style guide 2019
  • Payment components - An interactive Peretz style
  • Bucket list components - An interactive Peretz style
  • Type effects components - An interactive Peretz style
  • Slidercomponents - An interactive Peretz style
  • Table components - An interactive Peretz style
  • Compact table component - An interactive Peretz style
  • Scroll and move components - An interactive Peretz style

  • IBM Watson Marketing: 
  • Mobile App Messages - Identifying Active Mobile User ID Records - Animated WCA youtube marketing video
  • Sending or scheduling an email using IBM Watson Campaign Automation - Animated youtube WCA marketing video
  • Watson Marketing - Getting Started with IBM Watson Journey Designer - Animated WJD youtube marketing video

    • 2014 - 2017:  IBM Commerce projects:
    Watson Customer Engagement patterns: 
  • Card / grid view patterns and configurations
  • Research, usability testings and design of the "Required field" rules
  • Email templates design and Marketing email guide documentation

  • IBM Watson Marketing: 
  • Campaign Automation - mobile push / Device location awareness / Engage mobile (Re-skinning)
  • Journey Designer - Marketing planing software:
      • Worked on all aspects of UX /UI:   Persona development, ideation, design of workflow for work/approval request, palette, card - grid - timeline - canvas workboards for customer's journeys, user testing for success / failure, and welcome experience animation
  • Peretz commerce style guide-v.0
  • Studio's visual assets - Axure / Powerpoint / Keynote templates for Peretz guide
  • Studio's visual assets - CityCool product illustrations, posters and marketing communications templates
  • Enterprise Marketing Management (mobile prototyping)

    • 2013 - 2014:   IBM Emerging technology projects:
  • Mobile Identity app
  • Verona mobile app (for BlueMix) - Cloud OE/ BlueMix prototyping
  • IBM Client Experience Insight (CXI) pilot for tablet
  • O-Auto Insurance Mobile App IBM Rational projects:  JazzHub/ Jazz.net web portals/

    • Achievements include:
    • 2014 - 2019: Multiple IBM Manager’s Choice Awards
    • 2015 - 2017:  Designed and prototyped mobile email campaign demo, animated demos for 3 Amplify Conferences

    Featured project - IBM Journey Designer

    Empowers marketers to collaborate with a single view of the customer journey and continually improve customer experiences

    Project duration 2.5 years. IBM® Journey Designer is software that allows you to begin creating customer journeys in a multi-user collaborative space in minutes. Marketing, sales and customer service can collectively visualize cross-channel journeys, set common marketing goals and design tailored customer experiences for dozens of priority segments in an intuitive, WYSIWYG interface.

    The highlights of my work on Journey Designer:

    Collaborate across silos: Design customer experiences with members of your team, your organization and agency partners in minutes in an intuitive and collaborative drag-and-drop environment.

    Manage online and offline channels: Define the details of your cross-channel interactions within the journey map, creating a virtual creative brief for your team to execute.

    Timeline view: Quickly view and understand how the customer journey stages and the campaign workflow status look like within your project's timeframe.

    Customize your experience: Customize your workspace, tools and preferences to make your experience of working in Journey Designer productive and enjoyable.

    Portfolio

    Much like a workflow diagram, the customer journey map includes palette tools for touchpoints that help encapsulate the full customer experience.

    An experimental project on creating a single-interface workflow through the series of hierarchically expandable structures.

    I specialize in delivering engaging presentations. The 'Future of marketing' story is a sample of such a presentation where I used real IBM managers as subjects of my illustrations.

    In this project, my task was to create a series of visual assets for the CityCool brand, a demo company for IBM marketing user stories. The visual assets included product illustrations, posters and communication samples like website UIs, mobile push adds, email and brochure templates.

    WalkMe illustrations enable first-time users to learn Watson Customer Engagement product concepts in minutes. My goal was to create minimalistic, clear, informative and engaging content.

    A synergetic solution enabling seamless workflow services among Watson Customer Engagement products.

    • The concept of the integrated workflow tools includes:
  • Integration of Project management / Task tracking system as a common component across products
  • Automation and transparency of collaboration through the system of work/approval requests
  • Integrated and automated report/content library tagging and exchange across products
  • HR project management tool integrated with corporate campaigns
  • In this project, my goal was to create an experience where user can customize both visual and information aspects of cards in the card view.

    Customer journey stages (CJS) is a process of becoming aware of, evaluating and purchasing a new product or service. The CJS design helps marketing practitioners to visualize cross-channel user journey touch points, set goals and design tailored experiences for dozens of priority segments in minutes.

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