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About Hannah

love to create

The love started when I was a kid – building LEGO towns, stitching cross-stitch patterns, writing books about my hamster. That desire to make things transformed into a career focused on solving human and business problems through creative, compelling, and inspired design.

My focus on design has me most curious to solve problems in education, news, and marketing. I'm also interested in user experience, instructional design, photography, and design thinking.

Outside of work, you would be right to expect that I have several personal works in progress — knit and crochet garments, a quilt made from my Grandma’s vintage fabrics, and likely a couple rolls of film waiting to be developed.

A
timeline

  • 1980s: Writing and illustrating my own books, cross stitch with Grandma, LEGO, my first camera.
  • Mid-1990s: Hours spent drawing in the paint program on our family's first home computer.
  • Late 1990s: Desktop publishing as an independent study course in high school; instructor hands me a Rolling Stone and tells me to copy a spread. I do...to perfection.
  • Fall 2000-Spring 2001: Art foundations, publication design, and plenty of general education courses.
  • 2001-2003: Photography and design classes, leadership positions with the college newspaper, a travel course to Europe.Jan. 2004: Internship with Sioux City Art Center.
  • Feb. 2004: Senior exhibit featuring large-scale photos of LEGO creations.
  • May 2004: Internship with Storm Lake Chamber of Commerce.
  • Sept. 2004-Nov. 2008: Utility player at The Storm Lake Times – page and ad design, website management, and photographing Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton, among others.
  • Nov. 2008-June 2016: Communication flows, campaigns, photography, and brand management at Buena Vista University.
  • July 2016-Oct. 2022: Product design, prototyping, UX and UI, user discovery, marketing projects and brand development at Higher Learning Technologies. The executive team nominates me – and I’m named a finalist – for TAI’s 2020 Prometheus Awards: Emerging Technology Leader of the Year.
  • Today: Learning Webflow. Taking Google's UX certification course. Searching for my next opportunity.

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