Julie Grant is a Senior UX Designer with a background in visual arts and communication. She has over 15 years of experience in designing and developing products and services for startups, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies. Julie believes in the power of the collaborative process and has worked with teams at The Greenguide, National Geographic, SFMade, BetaBrand, Urban Rest Stop, OpenIDEO, British Petroleum, Adobe, Microsoft, and Amazon. She has a deep background in IA and user flows, user-centered design, user research, user interface, interaction design, brand alignment, guidelines, and patterns. She was also a founding member and keyboardist for the now-defunct pop/punk costume bands Buttersprites and Minirex. Julie is curious about the world and loves to travel when not on COVID lockdown.