Client Testimonials
John Tarpey, Director, United Nations / WIPO Communications
“Working with Tamara was an inspiration. With her exceptional blend of strategic, technical and personal qualities, she effortlessly bridged the 5,000+ miles which separated our offices. The personas she helped us create were invaluable in building a shared understanding of our users’ needs, which then drove the development of a new architecture and design for our website. The feedback on the new site – both internally and externally - has been overwhelmingly positive. And a year later, our personas are still alive and kicking – our colleagues are using them as a reference in various other efforts to better respond to our stakeholders. Tamara was a pleasure to work with – and much more fun than most international web experts.”
Jess Scheibach, Amazon.com
“I worked with Tamara at Amazon.com, where she quickly became one of the most respected customer advocates in the company. Tamara is a great person to bring in to your product development efforts. She not only champions user-centered design processes and persona development, but knows how to take concepts and principles and turn them into real results for your customers.”
Margo Schneider, Seattle Children’s Hospital
“Tamara is fantastic. Healthcare is complex with a myriad of different audiences with wildly different needs. Tamara did an amazing job of helping our large group of business owners work together to identify our users' needs and then prioritize them. Her expertise and humor were much appreciated by all involved.”
Jennifer Statham, CMO, WSECU
“Tamara is an amazing resource for companies that need shape and discipline in their pursuit to keep the customer at the center of their work. She lead my organization through a series of conversations to shape enterprise personas that created a way for the organization to rally around consumers needs and priorities.
She believes in anchoring this work at the senior leadership level to create prioritization and tie to enterprise goals. In our case, we developed a persona framework that was unique to ways other companies thought about personas and absolutely spoke to how consumers move between persona states.
Not only was Tamara a terrific resource in shaping our persona strategy and deployment within our organization, she also took on additional consulting work to develop and transform our UX team into an effective partner with marketing, product development and the agile teams. I would recommend Tamara to any organization that cares about putting consumers first and struggles to making that focus a clearly articulated reality in their company.”