Bryan Carichner Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Irvine, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

User Experience and User Interface Designer using industry standard best practices, software, and new technologies to create intuitive, responsive, and visually engaging digital experiences and products. I place a key emphasis on user-centered design, attention to detail, and develop effective solutions for complex projects and problems. Role and responsibilities include:> User interface and user experience design on all client digital initiatives, ranging from small businesses and startups, to corporate clients. Projects include full scope end-to-end design process from concept to completion for websites and web applications as well as more targeted efforts that fall anywhere in the digital design life cycle. Priority is always user satisfaction and successful outcomes. > Strongly emphasize a bottom-up design process that heavily relies on user research and user testing to create foundational user flows, wireframing, interactive prototyping and aligning these core design assets with final product requirements. This includes construction of design principles, design systems, and all other forms of creative documentation necessary to more efficiently move projects into production. IMPACT: Innovative product launches at higher velocity and lower cost ⧫ Design stability across all platforms SKILLS & SOFTWARE: Figma ⧫ FigJam ⧫ Wireframing ⧫ Prototyping ⧫ User Flows ⧫ Design Systems ⧫ Adobe Creative Suite

Los Angeles, California, United States

Primary role as Senior UI/UX Designer in the investment & research IT team was User Interface and User Experience design leadership and execution for the firm’s primary international trading platform, The Portfolio Strategy Manager. This is a highly customized and proprietary portfolio construction application that creates internationally compliant versions of American Funds and ETFs on a daily basis to generate new business outside of the U.S. This was our flagship software and my responsibilities consisted of the following:> Led, coordinated, and executed all design decisions on the project - this included initial phase 1 designs, and all redesign efforts targeted at accommodating scale, performance, usability, and other requirements and necessary enhancements.> Created all wireframes, interactive prototypes using Figma, and sitemaps and user flows using FigJam.> Designed, documented and implemented all design systems, design principles, style guides, interaction and micro-interaction components. > Strong collaboration on requirements with stakeholders, portfolio managers, research analysts, engineering and testing teams.IMPACT: All design efforts played a big part in this platform’s overall success. It experienced consistent year-over-year expansion in assets under management, users & usage, onboarding of dozens of new funds, and rapid increases in market penetration. This growth led to a platform that now manages and trades daily on assets totalling over $130 billion dollars. SKILLS & SOFTWARE: Figma ⧫ FigJam ⧫ Axure ⧫ Miro / JIRA / Confluence ⧫ Wireframing ⧫ Prototyping ⧫ Responsive Design ⧫ User Research ⧫ Chart.js ⧫ React ⧫ Material UI Design ⧫ Data Visualization ⧫ Adobe Creative

Los Angeles, California, United States

Lead UI/UX Designer for all software and web applications for Capital Group’s investment IT team. This consisted of larger end-to-end design initiatives, redesign efforts targeting usability/accessibility and other necessary enhancements, and smaller targeted design projects for teams and projects that needed a proper design eye and necessary refinements. Projects and responsibilities included: > International Trading Platform (Vehicle Flexibility Command Center) lead UI/UX designer, responsible for all initial design strategy, design assets and documentation, and ongoing design support including multiple major redesign efforts.> Lead UI/UX Designer for asset allocation and investment decision book of record web application, mapping investment team decisions against performance and market trends which tracked and measured active management efficacy. Currently tracking over $300 billion in firm funds.> UI/UX design lead on user customized, hypothetical and historical results/performance simulator assisting in future decision making.IMPACT: Rapid expansion of foreign investment into American Funds ⧫ Increased usage and engagement on all digital efforts ⧫ Improved performance, decision making, and record keepingSKILLS & SOFTWARE: Figma ⧫ FigJam ⧫ Axure ⧫ Miro / JIRA / Confluence ⧫ Wireframing ⧫ Prototyping ⧫ Responsive Design ⧫ User Research ⧫ Chart.js ⧫ React ⧫ Material UI Design ⧫ Tableau ⧫ Data Visualization ⧫ Adobe Creative

Los Angeles, California, United States

As the lead digital designer, front-end developer, and digital content producer for the Capital Group Institutional business division, my responsibilities were dedicated to multiple websites and online initiatives:> Designed and developed all web pages for US institutional client website. This included all sitemapping, layout, wireframing, page design and front end coding (HTML / XHTML / CSS / Javascript) to move these pages from concept phase into production environment.> Coordinated, designed, coded and launched institutional investment websites for Capital Group Australia, New Zealand and Japan.> Original member of the firm’s Web Guidelines Group aimed at developing and implementing consistent digital design principles, style guides and branding vision for Capital Group and American Funds websites globally.> Created multiple digital based marketing efforts including the Quarterly institutional digital marketing campaign. As leader of this effort, planned all digital assets/efforts, including investment team interviews, web page integration, and Email marketing support.> Implemented and managed all website usage tracking and held monthly review sessions to discuss areas of success, and address areas of lower traction that needed improvement.IMPACT: Increased Annual users/engagement ⧫ Increased international presence ⧫ Design stability across all platforms

Los Angeles, California, United States

Digital content producer, coordinator and strategist for Capital Group’s early online web environments.

Santa Monica, California, United States

Santa Monica, California, United States

Certification, Advanced Web & Interaction Design

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)