Jeremy Abrahams | Developer, UX Strategist, & Accessibility Specialist

UX Strategy

The first time I watched a room full of people use something I’d built, my passion for user-centered design was sparked. That was about a decade ago, and ever since I’ve immersed myself in user experience design, usability, and user research. Here’s some of the strategy and usability work I’ve done:

Explored, synthesized, and strategized for client and user needs during discovery and kickoff phases
Helped stakeholders, project managers, and designers understand technological feasibility and implications of project scope, strategy, and features
Created and conducted usability tests, tree/click-path tests, card sorts, heat maps, heuristic evaluations, competitive reviews, analytics configuration and audits, interviews, surveys, and other research and synthesis activities
Distilled for clients and project teams findings and insights from qualitative and quantitative research
Increased the value of our care and maintenance offering to both the company and our clients by championing and formalizing the inclusion of routine strategy meetings, analytics reviews, and accessibility audits
Presented lectures and provided training to teams and individuals on usability testing

Accessibility

My passion for web accessibility has evolved directly from my user-centered focus. Because accessibility is about more than just compliant code. It’s about putting your focus on people—all people—and then creating experiences that are usable and delightful. Here’s some of the accessibility work I’ve done:

Proposed to leadership a plan to train the team to design, develop, and write all projects to WCAG 2.0 AA standards
Selected, used, and trained others to use different browser-based, command-line, and desktop automated testers based on project need for both initial audits and ongoing monitoring
Preformed accessibility audits and evaluations on existing digital properties
Built and remediated PDFs for accessibility
Worked with local disability advocacy groups to recruit users of assistive technologies and conducted moderated usability testing with those individuals
Trained clients to publish accessible content and to maintain accessibility compliance
Created accessibility protocols that key stakeholders were able to distribute to their internal teams to maintain compliance
Presented lectures and provided training to teams and individuals on accessibility and WCAG 2.0 compliance

Development

I’ve been crafting code for over a dozen years, ever since I needed to figure out how to build a website for the band I was in. I’m a natural learner, builder, and problem-solver. And I never stop striving to make myself—and the projects on which I work—better. Here’s some of the web development work I’ve done:

Developed accessible, performant, beautiful, responsive websites for clients ranging from local businesses, universities, and nonprofits to global corporations
Skilled in modern front-end and back-end web technologies and languages
Designed processes to automate accessibility and performance into development starter-kit and build tools
Trained and onboarded junior developers

Teaching

I love sharing my knowledge and evangelizing about my passions. I’ve given lunch-and-learns at work and talks for a local professional organizations. But where I really get to dig in deep is the three-month course I teach on modern web development. Here’s some of the work I’ve done as an instructor:

Created a curriculum to teach local professionals about modern web development
Catered course content for diverse learning preferences and disparate skill levels among my students
Guided as many a 20 students through weekly three-hour courses including lecture, demonstration, and exercises
Broke down and explained complicated concepts to my class, sometimes through movie references of a well-placed gif