The "@82Dev" team and their "app" is featured in Instututional Investor as one of the top 10 'Kille Apps' of 1996.
Dissatisfied with the limited "Liberal Arts" major, Lise created her own major, "The Built Environment," which included courses from Studio Arts, Art History, and Engineering, as well as graduate courses and credits from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture and City Planning.
At Columbia University, Lise was enrolled in a graduate school program as an undergraduate. Each semester she was asked to present her final project in front of a panel of well known architects, including renown architect, I.M. Pei. She gained invaluable presentation and listening skills, as well as the ability to field tough questions and support design concepts.
Professional Contributions to IBM
From the very beginning, when Lise was hired just as a consultant, she was reaching across teams to find a "better way." With Business Space she identified a process by which teams could customize the look and feel of product demos, flows and the imbedded forms to improve the overall user experience. She reached out to Lotus Forms to discuss ways to improve their overall product and the end user experience.
While working on "Accelerators" Lise worked to define a visual design language before IBM design and the Carbon framework existed to try and create a brand and consistency across IBM teams and projects.
Lise consulted with the design team in Austin about the need for coded design toolkit in 2015, outlining the way it would expedite development time and reduce inconsistencies.
Identifying the fact that IBM's stock images appeared out dated and out of touch Lise jumped though the many hoops required to get Stocksy added as an IBM approved vendor. The images have enhanced the various project she has worked on including IBM Service Engage, The Garage Method and have been adopted by Marketplace.
Lise have pushed for a "mobile first" approach and the requirement of "responsive designs" for as long as she has been at IBM. She has strictly required all designs are responsive and included in the backbone of the code, opposed to the typical IBM approach of addressing the issue later. The IBM approach requires 100% re-coding of an application and is often never accomplished as teams move onto other requirements and projects. She has always provided her teams with the design and code to achieve the ideal responsive behavior, which can be complex thus reducing development time. She has also reached out to other teams, shared her ideas and concepts to help make responsive behavior a priority. More specifically she has reached out to the Carbon Design team to address issues with the current navigation system.
In general, Lise has provided her teams with all the required visual assets as well as css and html assets. She has contributed tens of thousands icons, images and lines of code and 100s of live demos which have allowed us to interact with clients and gain valuable feedback
Lise has been pushing and advocating for designers to be imbedded with development teams for years. True innovation, in Lise's perspective requires it. She has promoted the idea of designers becoming at least comfortable if not fully versed in html, css and js. In her mind an artist should be passionately familiar with the medium in which they create art. She has encouraged her designers such as David Purvis, to educate themselves. But if a designer does not have the mindset or desire to learn code, they should at least be closely coupled with a front end developer as they were in Service Engage.
In addition to Lise's contributions to the applications she has designed she has also worked on countless customer presentations, demos, conference videos and marketing materials. Her iconic "Garage Method" wheel was featured throughout the InterConnect Conference of 2016 on posters, handbooks, stickers, badges, and printed other IBM swag.
