Dakota Dudney

"What makes a website both beautiful and effortless to use?"

Design that starts with the human on the other side of the screen, not the decoration. That's Dakota's specialty.

Dakota Dudney is a user-focused designer, brand manager, and content creator skilled in visual design, user experience (UX), user interface (UI), and content — building sites that are accessible to people and legible to AI, on the same clean, semantic foundation GEO depends on. She's most passionate about accessibility, educational writing, innovative technology, and using creativity to solve real-world problems.

Specialties

• Visual & graphic design
• UX writing, wireframing & prototyping
• UX research & journey mapping
• User-centered design (UCD)
• UI design & content
• Brand identity & information architecture
• Content strategy & copywriting
• Tools: Figma, Adobe, MS 365, Google Workspace

What Dakota does at DigiVino

As Design & Accessibility Lead, Dakota owns how a site looks, how it feels to use, and how much of its audience can use it comfortably. Those are one job rather than three: the clean, semantic structure that lets a screen reader make sense of a page is the same structure that lets an AI assistant read it. Accessibility built in at the start costs very little; retrofitted later — or papered over with an overlay widget — it costs a great deal.

Ask Dakota about

• Where your site has accessibility problems, and what it would take to address them
• UX research, journey mapping, wireframing and prototyping
• Brand identity and information architecture
• Making a redesign feel effortless rather than merely new