Chela Giraldo

• Sole design system designer, managing, maintaining, and scaling Unqork design system to ensure its adoption, continued relevance and effectiveness for all users, including those with disabilities.

• Partnering with cross-functional teams to create reusable, accessible components, patterns, and interactions, enabling consistent and inclusive experiences across the product.

• Designed a scalable token system and Style Manager, a no-code interface that enables enterprise clients to integrate, manage, and apply custom tokens using our design system, reducing manual styling effort by 10× and enabling consistent theming across complex applications.

• Led accessibility efforts at Unqork by integrating WCAG 2.2 + ADA standards into the design system, integrating accessibility into the back end of 30 components as well as exposing configurable accessibility settings to enable users to build accessible applications improving screen reader compliance to 70% and keyboard navigation to 85%.

• Helped transition the design systems from React to constructing components with no-code while adapting and optimizing elements to integrate with Unqork's distinctive environment and unique challenges.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to support component creation and ensure alignment at the design system level, driving consistency and accessibility across the platform.
• Established processes to mentor designers and stakeholders in effectively using and adopting the design system by introducing weekly “design system office hours” to provide guidance, answer questions, and encourage collaboration.
• Enhanced documentation across design libraries to ensure designers and engineers have a shared understanding and can work seamlessly together.
• Implemented the migration of the design system from Angular to React, enhancing platform performance, accessibility, and scalability.
• Conducted accessibility audits to identify issues across the design system and platform, advocating for and leading initiatives to ensure WCAG and Section 508 compliance.
• Made critical changes to the design system and successfully scaled these enhancements to improve accessibility across the entire platform.

• Established the visual language, user interface, design system & style guidelines of the new PATH payment system - TAPP
• Re-designed the user experience & the information architecture of Foley’s website through research (The new Foley website is currently under development)

• Led the Charles Butt Foundation UI strategy and developed the design system and its documentation.
• Partnered with Art Director to design the Charles Butt Foundation website from the ground up. https://charlesbuttfdn.org/
• Created wireframes, prototypes with mirco-interactions, and user flows to validate concepts from user research and user testing.
• Partned d with Art Director to create the Charles Butt Foundation brand, brand guidelines, and its visual identity, including logos, logo animations, colors, typography, illustrations, icons, print media, social media, and animations.

• Gathered, evaluated, and translated brand and user requirements into the style guide & design system for the RYHT website in collaboration with Web Developer and Art Director.
• Identified and troubleshot UX problems and their solutions.
• Created user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and micro-interactions to validate solutions in user testing.
• Conducted industry research and stayed up-to-date on best UI/UX practices.

• Developed the branding and all promotional content for 4 conferences, 20+ advocacy campaigns, the INTERSECT ED podcast, and 2 interactive polls on public education.
• Created concepts, layouts, and designs for program materials, websites, newsletters, blogs, social media, policy campaigns, print, digital advertising, event materials, presentations, signage, infographics, animations, and more.
• Provided pre-production, production, and post-production support for design, motion graphic, video, and photography projects.