Erin Young
Founder & Principal Consultant
Greater Houston, TX
Erin founded Slide UX in 2012 and has spent the last 14 years turning ambiguous, high-stakes product problems into research-backed plans teams can act on.
On your project
Erin leads research planning, requirements gathering, and product strategy. She is the person you want in the room at the start of a project, when the problem is still fuzzy and the stakes of choosing the wrong direction are highest. She dives into unfamiliar subject matter, gets fluent fast, and comes back with a concrete path forward.
Under her leadership, Slide UX has served more than 200 organizations and holds an average client rating of 4.9 stars across 159 verified reviews, along with recognition from the Baymard Institute and a place among the top-ranked UX firms globally since 2016.
She also hosts the Designing for Dignity podcast, where she interviews people building for aging, brain health, and care about what actually works in practice.
Why this work is personal
Erin's father was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's in his late 50s, caused by a rare inherited genetic mutation. These mutations are deterministic. Each child of a carrier has a 50% chance of inheriting it. Erin tested positive.
She now participates in a clinical prevention trial, serves on the board of Youngtimers (a nonprofit supporting families affected by early-onset genetic Alzheimer's), and is a champion with Voices of Alzheimer's. She led the rebuild of the Youngtimers website in her dual role as designer and community member.
That experience gave her something no competitive research can buy: she has been the confused family member searching for reliable information, the trial participant filling out enrollment forms, and the caregiver's daughter. She has used every one of the digital tools your users will use.
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Before Slide UX
Erin led the IA/UX practice at T3 and served as a Web Producer at National Instruments, driving global web projects across nine languages from kickoff through post-launch optimization. She holds a BBA in Marketing from The University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business.
Her early Slide UX work included A Place for Mom, SeniorAdvisor.com, Alzheimers.net, and OurParents.com, alongside UPS, Dell, Allstate, Indeed, RetailMeNot, VMware, and Fidelity Charitable.
Erin has been recognized with an Austin Woman's Way Award and is an ADPList Super Mentor, ranking in the top 1% of mentors on the platform.
““Erin is an empathizer. She adopts her client’s customers as her own, and she carefully yet rapidly seeks an understanding of their needs. She is a remarkable partner that I know I will be working with again.””
Outside of work
Erin is a working artist, showing in juried exhibitions and public art programs and teaching watercolor classes. She also enjoys spending time outside with her two sons.
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