Blair McMillan
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Work

Selected work.

Research, UX design, product strategy and innovation, for teams large and small. Six projects in depth, and the rest of the work in brief.

  1. Asurion

    TickIt

    Lead UX Designer & Researcher

    Turning a messy complaints process into a product agents could actually use.

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  2. Canon

    Canon AMLOS

    Lead UX Designer & User Researcher

    Designing the experience for a product that didn’t quite exist yet.

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  3. uBreakiFix

    uBreakiFix

    Design Researcher · Workshop Facilitator · Design Strategist

    Designing a better store for everyone who had to use it.

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  4. Verizon

    Verizon Same Day

    UX Designer · Workshop Facilitator

    Making “we’ll get you a new phone today” actually possible.

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  5. Concert Window

    Concert Window

    User Researcher · Product Strategist

    Bringing real-world music communities online.

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  6. Financial services

    Farm Succession

    Lead UX Researcher · Product Designer

    Turning a fragmented, document-heavy process into a single digital workflow.

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Also

9 more projects — startups, Fortune 100s, emerging technology and physical spaces.

  1. 07NationwideUX Consulting & Research

    Buying life insurance online means a lot of questions before you know if it’s worth it. I interviewed customers, studied the category and set the UX direction for the quoting experience.

  2. 08Canon Americas LabProgram Strategy | UX Design | Brand Development

    Canon Americas Lab began as a concept on paper. I helped turn it into a working innovation incubator — its strategy, its spaces, its identity and its voice.

  3. 09GulfstreamUX Designer & Design Thinking Facilitator

    You can’t bring a private jet to a sales meeting. I ran the discovery and design, then prototyped an iPad experience that let Gulfstream’s sales team show the G400 anywhere in the world.

  4. 10Asurion PhotosUX Researcher | UX Designer

    People are particular about their photos: what they keep, what they’d edit, what they’d print. I ran discovery workshops across the US, then helped design the Expert Edit pilot.

  5. 11Verizon HumUX Designer | Product Strategist

    Hum needed a reason for subscribers to open it. I worked in a small team on new concepts for the app, and the feature set and weekly email we validated made it into the product.

  6. 12Oprah GiffreyCEO | CTO | CFO | COO | LOL

    A Twitter bot that posted a random Oprah GIF every day and sent bonus GIFs to anyone who tweeted at it. Built for no reason beyond having to exist. It got me a job at a creative agency.

  7. 13Asurion ClaimsUX Designer | UX Content Writer

    A phone repair generates a lot of updates nobody reads. I rebuilt parts of the claims portal for mobile, and wrote the outbound emails that got customers to a Tech Coach.

  8. 14CokesburyUX Designer | Workshop Facilitator

    Cokesbury’s storefront made people work to find things. Another designer and I audited it, aligned the team in a two-day workshop, then redesigned the navigation, discovery and checkout.

  9. 15Deloitte TaxUX Designer | User Researcher | Workshop Facilitator

    Tax expertise at Deloitte lived in people’s heads and didn’t travel. We interviewed the specialists, then designed a platform that let them share what they knew across the firm globally.