Jesse Beckenson Uxc Email & Phone Number

Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden

Strategizing, workshopping, branding, wireframing, prototyping, designing, coding — all to make award-winning apps as a trusted advisor on behalf of App Shack. Need your digital service to come to life? Hit me up!

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

I am available for hire! Please reach out if you need a UX/Produce Designer and/or Front End Developer.

Timor-Leste

Project: Hamutuk | hamutuk.tl- Designed and engineered a shared calendar, resource library, and interactive nutrition information for aid partners in rural Timor-Leste with low digital literacy. These features collect data and provide meaningful, targeted information to improve nutrition and health using a mobile app and an online platform.- Designed and co-led research in discovery and testing phases, using card sorts, journey maps, interviews, and questionnaires.Project: Hamahon | hamahon.tl- Created a style guide and logo for the needs of first responders in domestic crisis situations.- Implemented that styleguide with a team of 4 on the frontend of a directory web app.Organizational Activities- Collaborated with HR to write and conduct interviews for short term UX and Visual Design contracts.- Facilitated a workshop to gather cross-team experiences with usability testing, share templates, and set organizational standards.Catalpa Site | catalpa.io- Collaboration with lead designer on front end development for site rebuild.

Des Moines

Investigated designers’ workflows via interviews, supervised and unsupervised observations, a questionnaire, and my own experiences in that role. Analyzed and addressed the following pain points with my small developer team:- Decrease windows and clicks it takes to proof an ad.-- Quick: a webapp for creating multiple ads at once based on successful templates. My roles: front end development, testing.-- Paramount: a webapp for creating responsive ads that gracefully resized to different ad containers. My roles: design, front end development, testing.-- Avenue: an in-house app suite that streamlines designer workflow by enabling team leaders to assign app permissions based on each designer’s workflow assignment. My roles: design, front end development.-- Wiki: an easily searchable process guide for standard operating procedures, specialty clients, and different workflows. My roles: content, front end development.- Make ad production data accessible to designers, team leaders, and executives.-- Grandstand: Visualizes and filters ad data with graphs and charts. Data scientists can report ad performance. Team leaders can use this to see their team’s output. Designers can use this to see other designers’ ads and get inspiration. My roles: design, front end development.-- Jumbotron: Graphs and leaderboards from Grandstand data intended to engender competition among designers, displayed on TVs around the office space. My roles: design, front end development.- Quizzette: A quiz creation web app for sponsored quiz ad packages. My roles: designer, content, and front end development.Proudest moment: when the app I did most of the front-end work for — Grandstand, a data visualization dashboard for USA Today advertisements — got mentioned in a publication online! https://digiday.com/media/usa-today-network-moving-away-display-ads-new-custom-formats/Favorite part of job: knowing what I did made other people's jobs easier.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

- Design and proof animated and static ads on tight timelines for the USA Today Network using Adobe and non-Adobe products- Wireframe and develop landing pages using HTML & CSS (using Sass as a pre-processor)- Be a resource for coworkers by sharing workflow tips and design critique

Des Moines, Ia

Implement online marketing strategies, including:- Wireframe, prototype, and develop websites with WordPress customizing or creating templates (HTML, CSS, & PHP)- Write and design content for websites based on industry research- Employ social media strategies across Facebook & Twitter- Optimize website and social media content to hit client sales goals

- Collaborate on ideas for DPS blog content- Photograph different traffic related subjects on campus

- Conceptualize and design video game characters based on developer descriptions

Computer Science

Completed the Free Intro to Python course in the top 10%.

Full Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering

Reviewed HTML, CSS, Learned jQuery and vanilla JavaScript. I'm teaching myself Python at the same time because it's popular for data.

Design

Activities and Societies: Cyclone Aides!Started in Aerospace Engineering. Switched to Design. Went to two other colleges after that, then.

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies, 4.0

Basic courses - and this is where I found my love of economics, which I further pursued at ISU. Got a distinction in English for writing.

B.S, Media Arts & Animation

Was in the Media Arts & Animation track. Drawing and animation courses.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Earth Club (founder and co-president), Italian Club (member), Philosophy Club (co-president), and French Club.