work
UX Lead @ Softdocs
2025-[current]
Product Designer @ Softdocs
2024
Product Designer @ Praktio
2022-2024
UX Designer @ UWM
2021-2022
education
2021-2024
2017-2021
My name is Emma Wiest-Miller.
I'm a human-centered designer/researcher.
In my three years in UX, I've had the opportunity to build out a T-shaped skillset with deep roots in interaction design, design systems and qualitative UX research. I'm a generalist at heart, with experience across the entire UX process from discovery to delivery and a passion for diving into complex problems.
When I'm not designing, researching, or managing stakeholders, I am a full-time nerd. You can find me playing D&D, walking my dog, Poppy, or lying to my friends in social deduction games.
principles & philosophies
Design for everyone
Accessible, inclusive solutions deserve the resources required to make them great. Excluding individuals from any digital space on the basis of ability is discrimination.
Collaborate, collaborate, collaborate
With other designers, with researchers, with engineers, with business stakeholders, with end users, with anyone who will give you the time of day. Great things come from teams.
Always ask why
Understanding the root problem is the key to a great solution, no matter how big or small. Approach each new finding with curiousity and always assume there's more you don't know.