Allison Rice Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, IN, US

Carlsbad, California

Carlsbad, CA

• Interface with development teams at both start-ups and large corporations, providing creative direction and consultation
• Create couture, strategic, highly personal web and brand designs for professional bloggers, online entrepreneurs, and brick-and-mortar businesses
• Teach online entrepreneurs how to create a strategic, engaging online presence in the Love Your Website e-course
• Specialties include elegant, hand-crafted conceptual design; standards-compliant, responsive web design (HTML, CSS); interaction, interface, and experience design; typography; content strategy; and custom templates for.

• Spearheaded homepage and core ancillary page (www.ning.com, blog.ning.com) redesign.
• Conceptual and visual design lead for several feature redesigns.
• Extensively tested new designs across browsers and platforms, often in high-pressure debugging situations.
• Collaborated with product management, quality assurance, application development, and support teams to plan and implement new features.

• Executed all phases of development, including project management, requirements engineering, interaction design, visual design, content editing, implementation and deployment.
• Autonomously managed significant sections of the website, including the College of Liberal Arts, College of Law, administrative departments and campus events.
• Created dynamic, standards-compliant websites that represented each department's unique offerings.
• Collaborated on vision and strategy for the university website as a whole, providing leadership in project management, client relationships and visual/conceptual design.
• Interfaced and collaborated with print designers, writers, administrators, faculty and other staff members.

• Designed, coded and maintained multiple department websites; composed and managed content for all department sites.
• Composed numerous print publications including user guides, advertisements, posters, brochures, etc.
• Mentored and managed student technicians, coordinated with other on-campus departments and provided support to students, faculty and staff.