Designer, UI​/UX Design

Prishan Tek, Inc, a boutique strategy, recruiting and consulting firm.
We were recently awarded a contract for the Digital Defense Services and arepartof a pilot program to support a division in the Pentagon that uses experienced recruiting firms to support some mission-critical roles to take the Digital Services group to the next level.

The Defense Digital Service (DDS) was established in November 2015 to transform technology within the DoD by applying industry best practices to high-impact national security missions and some of DoD's most complex IT challenges. DDS is an agency team of the U.S. Digital Service.

The Team: DDS functions like a SWAT Team of tech experts on one-to-two-year tours of duty as government employees. The team is comprised of world-class software developers, engineers, designers, product managers, and expert problem solvers. Team members’ roles can include developing new code, managing technical projects, advising on development processes and product releases, and hacking or rewriting outdated policies or processes to make way for more effective, modern IT approaches.

The Projects:DDS focuses on projects that advance DoD's most important initiatives that are critical to the well- being of Service members, civilians, and core operations of the Department. Projects include reforming digital services that provide military families access to critical benefits, running bug bounty programs to identify vulnerabilities and better secure defense systems; developing drone detection technologies; hunting adversaries on defense networks;

and rethinking training for cyber soldiers

Evidence of Interaction Design
Modern applications have moved past filling out a one-page form and pressing thesubmit button. Instead, they are now complex interactions, combining business requirements with easy-to-follow user flow.
Interaction design skills include knowing when to utilize different application structures,such as hub-and-spoke designs versus interview flows; which design elements are bestfor certain types of information, such as when to use radio buttons versus drop-downmenus; and creating design deliverables such as wireframes and design priority descriptions.

Master:
Led a variety of sophisticated projects on multiple platforms atmultipleorganizations. Trained non-designer team members on the basics of interaction design,so they could produce reasonable initial work.

Evidence of Visual Design
Master:
Oversaw the design language for a large set of projects. Provided the design direction for a team of designers. Worked on a variety of very different projects. Trained non-designer team members on the basics of visual design, so they could produce reasonable initial work.

Evidence of Information Architecture
Master:
Oversaw the information architecture strategy for very large repositories.

Provided information architecture leadership for a team of designers. Worked on avariety of very different projects. Trained non-designer team members on the basics of information architecture, so they could produce reasonable initial work.

Evidence of User Research
As we create designs, we need to ensure they meet the needs of the user. User research helps us collect information about who our users are, what they are trying to accomplish, what frustrates them, and what will delight them.
Skills include identifying user population; techniques for evaluating design ideas,suchas usability testing; and passing that information on to rest of the team members, sothey can make informed decisions.

Master:
Integrated user research into the basic practice of a large organization.

Provided active research for extensive needs discovery. Used research to feed into amultiple-release product strategy. Trained non-designer team members on the basics ofuser research, so they could produce reasonable initial work.

Evidence of Information Design (Data Viz)
Presenting complex information for easy interpretation is key for a successful design.

Knowing when to use specific table or graph types and using novel approaches for exploring detailed data sets, whether it's pricing information, product comparison tables,or trend charts, makes solid information design a core component of the design process.
Skills include knowing when to apply the variety of chart and table formats, such as piecharts, hi-low diagrams, and cluster treemaps; how to create interactive data explorers,such as star fields and drill-down pivot tables; and working with combining multiple…