Welcome — ErikJanzen

UX DESIGNER // STORYTELLER // DOG DAD

Hello!

I’m Erik, a UX Designer with a passion for storytelling and teamwork. I’ve helped a local Mpls company sell cookies baked with crickets, designed feature upgrades for white-labeled banking software and roadmapped an engagement strategy for healthcare professionals fighting the opioid epidemic.

I believe the best designs bring value to users while supporting both the user and business goals.

Curent Role

I currently work at Thomson Reuters where I lead a multidisciplinary work stream building a tool for the legal search division. I collaborate across departments and teams to bring our project from the discovery phase all the way through to alpha release. Additionally, I collaborated with the design system team on the future of our design library, supported other work streams when they needed a boost and shared my expertise as a guest speaker.

Reviews

Seeing Erik run and lead workshops for [Project] shows his attention detail in planning. In these sessions, Erik manages the group feedback very effectively. He sets up and leads the sessions clearly and is able to keep everyone’s focus on a specific feature and problem. This is a difficult task to do virtually, it is a difficult task when presenting complicated ideas, Erik makes it look easy. _UX Designer

Among the best workshop leaders I've met. _Product Owner

You have all those design skills product folk like: you listen, you process stuff, you experiment a bit, you focus on the problem we're trying to solve for customers. _Product Owner

You create designs and lead design reviews masterfully. _Content Designer

Erik is able to translate complex problems and tasks into concise meaningful work.

_UX Designer

Friendly, outgoing, thoughtful and skilled, he comes to every meeting with a smile and collaborates well with the team. _UX Engineer