{"id":12,"date":"2021-08-11T15:23:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T15:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evanverdoia.com\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-06-15T17:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T17:15:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/evanverdoia.com\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 29%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><\/meta>As a User Experience Designer I am driven to create intuitive, useful and engaging products and services. My main interests are design strategy and interaction design. My long-term career goals include leading cross-discipline UX teams with a focus on design strategy. I enjoy collaborating with developers and product owners often. When I&#8217;m not solving design problems or coding you may catch me mountain biking, or having fun with my wife and two sons.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"298\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/evanverdoia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/evanworking.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evanverdoia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/evanworking.jpeg 298w, https:\/\/evanverdoia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/evanworking-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What drives me<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I love empathizing with a user base and building great user experiences. I constantly think about how people are perceiving products and services, often asking: &#8220;How could I make this better?&#8221; That curiosity and drive combined with my love of technology allows me to create and build quality products. I feel that good design makes the world a better place and I have always been driven to create that world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Design Philosophy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Design is about making things better for people. Done right, you are able to deliver solutions users didn&#8217;t know would enhance their experiences with your product\/service.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Design is a competitive advantage that has objective measures. Design should help drive strategic business decisions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You won&#8217;t be right 100% of the time. Learn from your users: iterate and improve products quickly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Design should include collaboration with all product stakeholders. Teamwork and collaboration build stronger products and make better experiences for the user.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The three &#8220;P&#8217;s&#8221; are what make a business thrive: &#8220;People, Process and Product&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a User Experience Designer I am driven to create intuitive, useful and engaging products and services. My main interests are design strategy and interaction design. My long-term career goals include leading cross-discipline UX teams with a focus on design strategy. I enjoy collaborating with developers and product owners often. When I&#8217;m not solving design&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/evanverdoia.com\/?page_id=12\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanverdoia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanverdoia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanverdoia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanverdoia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanverdoia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/evanverdoia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/evanverdoia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanverdoia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}