Currently I am looking to go back to work part or full time.
My Art Direction skills include:
• Strategic and conceptual thinker • Taking an idea to a full working mock-up • Brand awareness • Briefing and overseeing photography shoots, illustrators, mac operators and typographers • Mac user, competent in Adobe InDesign • Confident presenter of creative ideas to clients • Working as part of a team with a copywriter • Organised with an obsessive attention to detail
My UX Design skills:
• A host of new tools like Miro, Loom, Adobe XD, Slack & Figma • Able to recruit and manage participants for usability tests • Writing a script and hosting a usability test • Note-taking, picking out key insights observed • To look at a problem purely from users point of view • Taking unstructured data, and making it structured by analysis • Pen & paper- sketching is an important step in the design process • Creating an interactive working medium-fidelity prototype • Creating effective handover documents for the developers by annotating the wireframe
My UI Visual Design skills:
• How to design user interfaces that are intuitive while also Infusing brand values • The importance of, and how to apply hierarchy & consistency • Tools of the trade, specifically Figma to design and collaborate in • Creating mood boards and inspiration • Maintaining balance and order with structure, grid systems, margins, gutters, padding and alignment • Responsive website design and their breakpoints • Design principles such as proximity, chunking, similarity, symmetry, continuation, affordance and visual hierarchy • Choosing the right Interactive elements such as navigation and components • The design of input controls and informational components that remain on brand • Choosing fonts and colours for their accessibility and how to authenticate them • How to create a colour palette of primary, secondary and accent colours • Design Icons that are within a brand style • Working as part of a team with UX designers, UX writers and developers • How to present designs and hold critiques • UI Visual Design extends my knowledge on how to be visually minded and have an eye for detail- Creative and systematic