Available for contract or full-time UI/UX roles
Steven Hanson
UI/UX Developer & Designer
Born and raised in the suburbs of Washington D.C., I discovered my passion for art at a young age. During my time at Virginia Commonwealth University, the Internet was just beginning to emerge in popular culture, and it was love at first click. In 1997, I started teaching myself HTML and Photoshop, taking what was in my head into the digital age.
I bring a rare combination of creative and technical skills to every project. I thrive in collaborative environments, working with equally talented individuals to take a concept all the way from idea to market. I’ve always been someone teams can depend on when it matters most, and I take pride in bringing years of best practices to every challenge I take on. If I truly love and believe in what I’m building, work will always come first.
My expertise now covers 20+ years operating at the intersection of design and engineering, delivering everything from high-fidelity prototypes and design systems to production-ready HTML, CSS, and accessible responsive interfaces. Equally comfortable leading UX strategy and getting hands-on in the build. Known for a sharp eye for detail, a problem-solving mindset, and a consistent record of owning the full deliverable lifecycle and transforming complex requirements into interfaces that are intuitive, accessible, and easy to use across Fortune 500 companies and Government agencies.
Places That Trusted Me
Work History
SAIC
Public Trust Clearance. Embedded UX lead within a cross-functional agile team of stakeholders, software developers, and systems engineers, applying participatory design and human-centered design methodologies to deliver scalable UX solutions for the Department of Homeland Security's Conveyance Monitoring and Predictive Recognition System (CMPRS).
- Conducted a comprehensive UX audit of an inherited Government agency framework, identifying critical pain points and delivering targeted design improvements that drove measurable gains in task efficiency and user adoption
- Owned end-to-end UX documentation lifecycle across multiple apps and platforms, producing user flows, wireframes, low and high-fidelity prototypes, and detailed UI specifications aligned to development requirements
- Architected and deployed an AWS S3 SCSS design token repository, decoupling design assets from the development lifecycle and enabling on-demand style updates that accelerated iteration speed
- Led accessibility remediation efforts in collaboration with the 508 compliance team, with resulting work selected as a featured best-practice example in a department-wide webinar
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Embedded UX Developer supporting a large-scale, end-to-end Request to Payment application within a scaled agile environment. Served as a shared UX resource across five cross-functional teams, contributing to sprint planning and goal delivery while maintaining design consistency at scale.
- Engineered customized Angular Material themes and Kendo UI components, delivering tailored, accessible, and scalable UX solutions aligned to enterprise design standards
- Initiated and led a monthly Lunch & Learn series to elevate UX literacy across development teams, personally authoring a session on BEM CSS Methodology focused on scalable, team-based CSS architecture
- Developed and maintained a comprehensive UX/UI coding standards library, reducing cross-team inconsistencies and serving as the primary knowledge transfer resource for on-boarding developers
New York Life
Partnered with the UI Design team to deliver pixel-perfect, responsive web pages from high-fidelity wireframes at a $570B Fortune 500 insurance company, serving as the team's primary UX development contact and owning all front-end UX deliverables.
- Architected reusable style guide templates built on semantic HTML5 and refactored CSS3, establishing a scalable foundation for future page development
- Defined and documented a forward-looking design strategy and component best practices to streamline and accelerate future page creation
- Ensured alignment between interface design solutions and enterprise architectural standards, principles, and business objectives
PolitiFact / Tampa Bay Times
Full-cycle UI/UX developer responsible for the continuous evaluation, maintenance, and iterative improvement of a high-traffic news platform across multiple environments and repositories including Beanstalk, Git, and Bitbucket. Managed content across Amazon S3 Web Services and prototyped responsive wireframes for company-wide usage.
- Served as sole custodian of all company-wide CSS3/SCSS styling, ensuring visual consistency and maintainability across the entire platform
- Redesigned the Presidential Promises page under tight deadlines during the 2016 election cycle, delivering a high-visibility, data-driven user experience on limited time and resources
- Optimized an 80,000+ subscriber Daystarter email template for seamless cross-browser and cross-client rendering, improving deliverability and user engagement
- Conceptualized and developed the Tampa Bay Times Flash Briefing Skill for Amazon Alexa, expanding the brand's digital reach into emerging voice interface platforms
- Implemented a subscriber notification tracking system, improving process visibility and communication reliability across TBO.com's user base
- Hand-selected by Deputy Director to support the newly-formed Digital Audience Revenue team
SiriusXM Satellite Radio
Web Development liaison and lead CSS3 Designer responsible for cross-departmental coordination across Development, Editorial, and Interactive teams in Washington, D.C. and New York, supporting network-wide maintenance and CMS governance.
- Designed and developed templates, web pages, graphics, and CS Elements within Oracle WebCenter Sites CMS, supporting high-volume content operations across multiple departments
- Administered CMS rights and access controls for all departments, ensuring secure and efficient content governance
- Researched, integrated, and maintained third-party analytics and tracking tools including Omniture, Qualtrics, and Maximizer, enabling data-driven decision making across teams
- Executed User Acceptance Testing and maintained up-to-date Confluence documentation, supporting QA processes and cross-team knowledge management
- Conducted ongoing 508 compliance quality assurance, ensuring platform accessibility standards were met across all web properties
- Designed and deployed internal backend web tools to streamline company-wide operational workflows
I Know a Guy (It's Me)
Skills & Tools
Design & Prototyping
Languages & Frameworks
Tools & Platforms
Expertise
Behold... My Stuff!
Portfolio
Conveyance Monitoring System
End-to-end UX design and development including framework overhaul and SCSS architecture for a Government monitoring platform.
PwC - Request to Pay
Creation of SaaS software application to help improve cash flow management.
PolitiFact Digital Products
Email template redesign for 80K+ subscribers, Presidential Promises page, and Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing Skill.
SiriusXM Channel Search
Designed SXM's Channel Guide styling & formatting for entire library of station channels
New York Life Web Platform
Translated high-fidelity wireframes into responsive desktop web pages for a $570B Fortune 500 insurer.
Logo Designs
An assortment of logo designs I've created over the years for various clients.
Nice Things People Said (Unprompted)
Referrals
Steve is a rare find. He is able to design a site, factor in usability, and build it all himself. If I had another dream team of development folks to put together again, Steve would be a “must have.”
Tampa Bay Times
Isolating needs on development production teams means you have to fill that need. Hiring Steve to fill the need for UI front end developer with a direct effect on User Experience through CSS stylings was the key. Steve’s impact on the projects allowed us to realize the UX architecture fully while employing the design of Responsive and Accessibility UI directly into the code for project success.
Steve stepped things up by responding to the direct request of creating libraries and component deployment of CSS styles including the naming conventions that bring clarity to developer code. The libraries Steve created were used project wide across 5 development teams. Steve coupled with UX lead to help nurture and lead developers by teaching the implementation of the libraries and styles and how to integrate them into Angular as global styles and isolated component styles.
The success of the project was impacted deeply by the inclusion of Steve Hanson and his skillset, but further success was had due to Steve’s ability to learn new ways of code/UI improvement and then project those learnings into the developers skill set through thought leadership and small group/one on one collaboration. I strongly recommend Steve Hanson for any project that desires a successful outcome especially in the realm of taking Experience Design to code for User Interaction success.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
I had the privilege of working with Steve at the Tampa Bay Times. He was reliable, professional with an attention to detail that made him the perfect “go to” person when you wanted to be confident that things would be done correctly the first time.
Working with Steve was a pleasure as he always went above and beyond with great confidence while demonstrating a high level of professionalism and well thought out user experience decisions.
Steve would be a great asset to any company that is looking for a strong design and coding skill set with the ability to adapt quickly and execute. He possesses a great personality alongside extensive experience which makes him a solid team lead or member.
It’s these attributes that allow him to work well with others to identify problems, architect sound solutions and iron out wrinkles and get the job done.
Tampa Bay Times
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