Manny Ikomi Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Teaching Interactive Design I to design majors in the Visual & Media Arts Department. The course builds upon students foundations of visual design and typography with principles of human-computer interaction, user experience and human-centered design thinking.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Experience design and research consultant, accessibility advocate and design thinking facilitator.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Leading Tire and Wheel Retailer Client - Employee Intranet Portal- Awarded the Clients 2 Profitable Growth Award by advancing the skills, capabilities, and career experiences of IBMers and clients with design. Expanding IBM client success.- Optimized the responsive design of key employee intranet pages and components for store desktop users, increasing the accessibility and usability for 90% of intranet traffic.- Provided technical specifications and UI design assets, defining intended responsive behaviors and handling edge-cases, to ensure seamless development and deployment.State IT Agency Client - Dashboard Pilot and Design Thinking Adoption- Taught State IT Agency stakeholders to practice IBM's Enterprise Design Thinking framework, driving the Loop and human-centered design to unlock the power of the state's data.- Co-facilitated a 3-day remote prototyping workshop, surfacing 8 storyboard prototypes, 47+ data components, and 3 key user value themes to inform the MVP dashboard design.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Experience design, user research and enterprise design thinking consultant.- Generated $287k in revenue by securing 3 project extensions while designing industrial safety observation products and services.Aerospace and Defense Client- Designed a mobile application to efficiently and accurately capture safety risk observation data and report it for corrective action in a heavy industrial environment.- Owned design research to define the current state, identify pain points, opportunities, and quick wins in employee workflows using contextual inquiry, enabling condition-based and predictive maintenance.- Advise and coach a client team designer on UX fundamentals, accessibility and producing high quality design artifacts like journey maps and wireframes.

Applying user-centered design thinking processes across internal initiatives and client projects. Led 12 team members through a month long research sprint that discovered our ideal customer and developed a productized services offering.Design and build digital workspaces and automated workflows that shifted startups and creative agencies to more async remote-first culture.

Greater Boston

Libros for Language is a curated online repository created to support teachers in finding and using translanguaging books in the classroom. I led project stakeholders through the design, development and launch of the website.- Art direction with our graphic designer to create a logo and custom icons for the translanguaging typology.- Libros for Language was featured in the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) blog and funded by the American Library Association.

Malden, Ma

Responsible for all graphic design and prepress requests. On-demand, rapid turnaround of print collateral. Maintain company identity system and website. Print pre-flight, quality control, production scheduling and supply inventory.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Interactive Design

Focusing on User Experience Design, User Research and Human-Computer Interaction. Magna Cum Laude

Associate Of Science - As, Graphic Arts & Visual Communications

Focusing on foundational art/design concepts, history and typography. Emphasis was placed on developing a creative process, problem.

Graphic Design

Hands-on experiences in the areas of advanced electronic imaging, typesetting and prepress. Emphasis placed on the development of problem.