Sarah Ludwig Design Portfolio

“Play is the brain’s favorite way of learning" ~ Diane Ackerman

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Hello, I'm Sarah

I'm an entrepreneur and creative based out of Seattle, WA. Endlessly curious about tech, music, and education.

Nice to meet you 👋

I'm a passionate leader with 17 years of experience at the intersection of music education, design, and technology. Former higher ed Director of Music Education with expertise in evidence-based practices, specializing in creating developmental learning experiences that build music literacy and performance skills for beginner to intermediate learners. Founder and primary designer of a sustainable travel digital platform, driving end-to-end product design and delivery with a focus on user-centered solutions. Sarah Ludwig, DMA smludwig1@gmail.com

Research expertise spanning 15+ years in helping beginner to intermediate learners of all ages develop music skills through play.

Side projects showcasing a range of thinking processes and applications.

Editoire

Founded a startup digital media platform for sustainable travel. I designed and developed the website end-to-end, design systems, branding, and architecture. 90,000+ users across channels in 16 months.

Expressable

A side-project exploring knowledge-base platform creation for a speech therapy company. This project focused on allowing users to access key lessons, and track progress, both on the patient side and health provider side.

Brandfolder

Brandfolder is a B2B Tech company. This project focused on developing educational materials and workshop facilitation embedded in a long-form SEO article.

UX Design

Music education

Editoire

Digital platform

Tools: WordPress, Figma, Elementor, MarketMusic, VS Code/Python, griptape ai, DaVinci

Music educator

DMA; Ma.Music ed

I am a music educator at heart, obsessed with discovering the most playful way of developing music literacy and performance skills in a pedagogically sound way. I prepared pre-service teachers on methodologies and developmental progression to apply principles in their own classrooms. Masters Thesis Focus: Kodaly and Orff-based teaching lessons and literature, meeting students in day-to-day lessons within a progressive, spiral curriculum framework DMA Dissertation: Musical collection of canons analyzed and organized to build musicianship skills in beginning and intermediate collegiate performance settings.

UX Academy

Studies

A handful of projects along my UX Design journey demonstrating my thought processes. forScore: App analysis Mirror: Research methodology Flitter: Consumer mobile app study

Expressable

Slide Deck

Learning Platform

This proposal deck was created to address the client's pain points of engaging patients in their learning process through transparent progress while also developing a HIPAA-compliant interface for health providers. Tools: Figma, company branding guidelines, Nielson Norman, Pattern Library

Brandfolder

Facilitation Deck

Brandfolder was acquired by Smartsheet in 2022, where I assisted in creating educational materials to meet the team's combined goals of educating users on a range of business/project management topics while also employing SEO strategies to bring in over 90% of new clients organically. I worked with the design and demand generation team for several projects, this being one that demonstrates the breadth and collaborative work to launch.