I am currently a practicing professional UX/UI designer and have been involved in the design and advertising industries as a senior designer and art director for over 15 years. For the last 8 years I have worked in the digital space and now specialise in UX and UI design.
My qualifications include a Graphic Design Diploma from AUT and a Digital Media Diploma from Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand.
I have a strong passion for UX/UI design and can offer a wide range of skills in the following areas:
- Project management
- Lead discovery and user research activities to build empathy and gain user insights, goals and motivations
- UX/UI design for mobile and tablet applications
- Data analysis and diagramming
- User interviews and testing
- Brainstorming, white boarding and conceptualising
- Gaining a clear understanding of product, stakeholder and user requirements
- Heuristic evaluation
- Wireframing and prototyping
- Design library creation, including setting up style guides, font styles, colour palettes, components, button styles, icon sheets, forms, navigation and image guidelines
- Working with front end developers and cross checking design with HTML and CSS
- Holding meetings and presentation reviews to key business stakeholders
- Using Figma, Sketch, Invision, Balsamiq, Zeplin and Adobe software
- Communication tools used include: Invision, JIRA, Miro, Mural and Trello
- Working within a scrum/agile development process
- Understanding responsive design
- Quantitative and qualitative data research
