Hi, I'm Anna
Over the last 15 years, I've worked across diverse industries designing and building software. My most scaled work was at Edsby, an education platform servicing over 215 million users worldwide and winning more than 70 awards. My passion lies in crafting functional and user-centric products, where I meticulously consider both high-level perspectives and minute details. My skill set, spanning creative, practical, and technical domains, gives me a unique approach to product design and management. I'm creative, adaptive, and love to learn. I am motivated by a challenge and love the reward of overcoming obstacles.
Work Experience
- Manage a design team across multiple products to deliver a consistent and seamless user experience through low-and high-fidelity wireframes, mockups, and prototypes
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and product managers during product roadmap planning to create products that users love
- Work closely with engineering teams on the effective execution of designs
- Conduct user research and usability testing to better understand user journeys and iterate on designs
- Extensive experience working with clients across all industries and media
- Worked with clients on small projects like single-page websites as well as large-scale projects including print and digital materials from concept to full execution installations.
- Managed a design team to deliver low-and high-fidelity wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that offered exceptional user experiences
- Employed tools and metrics to measure the success of designs, conduct user experiments, and promote Product Led Growth
- Worked closely with engineering teams on the effective execution of the designs
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams and product managers in roadmap planning and setting quarterly goals
- Led a 20+ person engineering team in Agile development
- Facilitated relationships with the Product Owner, business team, customer needs, and other stakeholders to ensure a clear and seamless product development process with best practices and user-centred design processes
- Developed UI elements and prototypes for mobile/web applications
- Constructed wireframes, user flows, low-and high-fidelity mockups, and prototypes for new and existing products and features
- Conducted market research and user testing/interviews to iterate through designs for the most effective solutions
- Collaborated with the engineering team to ensure implementation of designs and seamless product deployment
- Designed, created, and maintained all public-facing marketing materials across different media
- Designed and developed websites for clients
- Created intuitive user interfaces for web applications
- Worked closely with programmers to achieve optimal functionality
- Created other materials for the company and its clients, such as interactive flash presentations and print materials
Skills
- Product design
- UX/UI design
- User research and testing
- Wireframing and prototyping
- Design systems
- Web development
- Branding
- Project management
- Agile (Scrum) methodologies
- Team leadership
- Verbal, written, and interpersonal communication
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Figma
- MS Visual Studio
- HTML/CSS
- Javascript
Contact
I'm currently considering opportunities as a Product Designer or if my skillset matches the missing puzzle piece to your project I'm available for freelance work.
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