stephanietroeth.com

An engaging and effective user experience is aligned with your brand voice and organisational strategy. I help organisations with their product strategy, user experience design and technology.

Recent work

MailChimp

User research and data-driven ethnography on internationalisation and localisation issues, community liaison for UK/Europe.

ASICS (Europe)

Bespoke training for the digital communications team on pragmatic design thinking and product/project management methods.

Bi-Rite Market

User experience strategy, interaction design, technical liaison with designer/developer, UX quality assurance.

Canadian Research Data Centre Network

User research, information architecture, content strategy, technical liaison with designer/developer, UX quality assurance.

UX Montreal

I founded a Montreal-based grassroots group that aims to foster knowledge sharing amongst the community of user experience professionals locally.

For over 10 years, I've been an active advocate of web standards and best web practices, especially in the realm of education. Recently my focus has shifted towards the meeting point between technology and social change.

Current projects

What If Everyone Is Other?

A tumblog examining cultural bias, social psychology, prejudice and the collective psyche on race, ethnic identity and immigration issues.

Past projects

Web Standards Sherpa

We reviewed editorially selected or user-submitted websites and unpack the finer points of best web practices. I was the Editor-in-Chief from site launch until April 2012.

Centre for Community Organizations (Québec)

COCo supports community groups through information session and customized facilitation, training or coaching. I was a member of COCo's IT Advisory Group until spring 2011.

WaSP Small Business + Standards

Resources to empower small business owners with skills and knowledge to hire qualified web professionals.

WaSP InterACT

Living, open curriculum framework based upon web standards and best practices, designed to teach students the skills of the web professional.

Open Web Education Alliance

An alliance of standards bodies, corporate entities, industry professionals, educators and higher-education institutions fostering knowledge transfer on best practice-based education.

previous work on web standards »

My writings and art work reflect my fascination with our relationship to our physical world and the things in it.

hippiesque

Unique silver work that critically examines our relationship with what we choose to wear, keep or what we deem as precious.

unadorned

A series of untitled prose-poems about the urban condition and our place within it.

photosynthesis

Film photography, shamefully not updated in awhile.