Leyda Hughes
User Experience Researcher at U.S. Digital Response
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeyda Hughes is a UX researcher and product designer with eight years of experience applying human-centered and Lean UX practices to complex public sector and SaaS products. She partners across the product lifecycle—from discovery and contextual research to prototyping and pixel-perfect visual design—leveraging a formal graphic design background to make interfaces both usable and delightful. Leyda has a strong track record modernizing government digital services, including bilingual Spanish research and plain-language content work, and she volunteers with U.S. Digital Response to extend those capabilities to state and city governments. Comfortable in fast-moving, cross-functional teams, she combines rapid synthesis and prioritization techniques with hands-on facilitation and design-system contributions. Colleagues describe her as empathetic and humble, with a habit of letting discovery lead solutions rather than jumping to polished outputs.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Graphic Design, BFA, Graphic Design at Ringling College of Art and DesignUser Experience Design Immersive, UX Design, User Experience Design Immersive, UX Design at General AssemblyPre-College Summer Program, Graphic Design, Pre-College Summer Program, Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of Design
Spanish
Github Skills (9)
documentation5
design-patterns5
frontend4
rxjs4
angular4
javascript3
component-library2
python2
ui-components1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lildziner/lildziner.github.io
Apr 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:17 pushes in 3 years
lildziner/va.gov-team
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
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Contributions:6 pushes in 6 days
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