Profile A designer that is passionate about finding the prefect balance between functionality and aesthetics in order to achieve maximum positive user experience. Experience User Experience Design Manager, Zillow.com; Seattle, WA — 06.2005-Present Managing and leading a team of designers and presentation layer developers. Create and set standards for design and art directions. Work closely with program managers, business partners, marketing, PR, and dev teams to ensure requirements are mindfully translated through design while ensuring good user experience. Designs and implements common user interface standards, system usability guidelines, design guidelines, GUI prototypes, HTML page design and management, and development methodologies. Design, champion, and advocate user experience design to meet the business objectives of the organization. Establish online and offline style guides. Responsible for establishing design direction for the entire line of online services, products, programs, marketing and PR materials. Online Art Director, SeattleTimes.com; Seattle, WA — 11.2004-06.2005 Work closely with online creative director to shape the creative direction for seattletimes.com, products, services, templates and graphic elements. Responsible for visual communication, graphic design, user experience of Web site products and direct all aspects of Web product design. Identify UI requirements, define project approach and author the user experience strategy. Set conceptual design and product direction based on industry research requirements. Responsible for supervising, coaching, and evaluating all direct reports and provide staff with ongoing and regular feedback, guidance and direction. Manage design resources, projects, and participate in researching, developing and planning additional online design services with a focus toward production implications and reducing operating costs. Act as liaison between print and online departments to facilitate and streamline daily production processes. Senior Interaction Designer, Washington Mutual; Seattle, WA — 10.2003-11.2004 Work closely with internal business partners and cross-functional project teams to provide thoughtful and creative recommendations for site architecture, navigation and other user interface elements for both early and late stage Web projects. Define and document proposed Web site architecture, navigation, functionality and style guides. Oversee design projects and responsible for general information architecture, general UI, feature interface, and improvements for wamu.net and Web-based products. Senior Designer & Art Director, MetaStories, Inc.; Seattle, WA — 08.2000-10.2003 Work with a team of designers and programmers to design, develop, produce and implement online-based modules and interactives for MetaStories and its clients through all phases of every project. Duties include web design, print design, user interface design, flash animation, illustration, functional prototype development, graphic production, graphic standard and specification development, and storytelling. Work closely with clients, developers, interactive producers, other designers and design director. Lead Site Wide Information Designer, MSNBC.com; Seattle, WA — 12.1998-04.2000 Responsible for the creation and look and feel of MSNBC.com site wide graphic elements, UI, and new product design. Duties included web design, graphic design, user interface design, site wide graphics development and optimization, site wide graphic standard and specification development, storytelling, co-branding page designs and specification, advertising graphics creation. Worked closely with developers, project managers, and design director. Graphic Designer, Kindred Communications; Seattle, WA — 12.1998-04.2000 Web site creation, including user interface design, color scheme creation and correction, page layout, animation, and image manipulation. Web site and intranet maintenance for MicrosoftÆ product sites, including HTML programming, troubleshooting, edit spot creation, and jump page creation. Education University of Washington, Seattle, WA — BA in General Arts, 1995
Art Institute of Seattle, Seattle, WA —Multimedia, 1997-1998 Skills Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash MX 2004, HTML, CSS 2.0 Box Model, Dreamweaver, MS Office, Visio, Powerpoint References Available upon request Alix Han Lead UI Designer, Design Manager, Sr. Designer, Multimedia Designer Page 1 of 2 Page 2 of 2