Kim Brooks Email & Phone Number

Victoria, Bc, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Cardiff, South Wales, Gb

• Successfully launched a unified design system that reduced design and development inconsistencies by 30%.• Utilized Jira to organize a roadmap and execute work in a Scrum environment. Enabled transparency of design system standpoint, greater efficiency and clarity of work required.• Increased design efficiency by 25% through the creation and implementation of reusable accessibility compliant components, recognizable UX patterns and standardized processes.• Conducted user research and usability testing to refine design components, enhancing overall user satisfaction by 15%.• Created and maintained structured design tokens across UI Kit and Engineering, providing efficient product scalability. Eliminated duplicate entry of tokens by introducing Supernova and Tokens Studio pipeline, reducing time and human error by 50%.• Enhanced Figma UI Kit by optimizing variables for dark mode and secondary product lines, improving design delivery time by 5%. • Provided QA reviews of component and style changes utilizing Chromatic and GitHub pull requests prior to release. • Documented clear design guidelines, principles, and best practices in Zeroheight to facilitate adoption and consistent use of the design system.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

IQmetrix is a retail management, omnichannel, and point-of-sale solution designed for telecom retailersMy responsibilities included:• Collaborating with Product Owners, Product Managers, Engineers and other Designers to build intuitive and pleasing B2B and B2C solutions• Facilitating workshops and hosting storytelling presentations to gain understanding and alignment of business and customer goals• Utilizing agile, design thinking frameworks, researching, conducting user interviews, surveys, journey mapping, personas, wireframing, prototyping and usability testing• Advocating for accessibility and diversity inclusion• Creating and managing complex UI kits, building hi-fi mockups and highly interactive prototypes as a Figma power-user. • Being the primary contributor and manager of Design System• Upscaling UI for company rebrand, create and manage product style guide • Resolving design operation inefficiencies proactively to improve efficiency and quality in team processes

Burnaby, British Columbia, Ca

PerfectMind is a membership management software that uses cloud-based technology to help organizations of all sizes connect with their communitiesMy responsibilities included: • Creating and managing of new style guide; set rules, specifications, guidelines and look of the product• Enforcing consistency with a one-source-of-truth document to support cross-team collaboration• Completed expansive research and utilized tools such as Sketch, Zeplin and InVision • Product feature UI design in an agile environment• Following design principles, responsiveness and ADA accessibility guidelines

• Redesigned software workflows and interface for The BCUC• CMS website design for 4 clients• Logo design for 3 clients• Wedding theme/print design for 4 weddings • Personal portfolio design

New York, Ny, Us

3 month Certification Course for User Experience Design Specialization in: • Design Empathy• User Research• Design Strategy• Information Architecture• Wireframing• PrototypingGained a solid understanding of the various processes and methods used to design digital products, learnt how to confidently apply UX principles when delivering and articulating my ideas, explored the role of a UX Designer by designing prototypes, user journeys, wireframes and created a complete UX Design plan for a product from ideation to functional prototype (HireMe App - Please see this project on my portfolio www.kimbrooks.ca)

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Conducted competitive analysis research and created the first sketches and ideations for a social media component for BBTV’s Viso Catalyst gaming network. Was mentored by the Art Director, and Senior UX/UI Designer on processes such as user surveying, personas, card sorting, affinity diagramming, wireframing, prototyping and development delivery.

Burnaby, Bc, Ca

Full-time student at BCIT studying Digital Design with focus on such areas as: •Developing media rich products•Designing 2D animations and video production•Creating 3D design and visual effects•Developing project plans with timelines, budgets, and roles•Integrating a variety of server and client-side APIs•Creating digital content in a range of formats, from print to mobile•Creating complete business web solutions•Developing dynamic web applications•Designing user interface for games, mobile apps and computer applications•Developing and designing online mobile applicationsSome major projects include:•Developing several cross platform web and mobile solutions•Planning cost-effective marketing campaigns for small to medium size business through web and mobile platforms. •Creating a complete application which includes web and mobile marketing tactics, web analytics, social media, MySQL database, and integrate a variety of server and client-side APIs.•Producing short film pieces with visual effects and integrated CG elements•Developing a small multi-platform game project •Creating an individual final portfolio and reelSpecializing in applications such as:Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Premier, Audition, and Dreaweaver Languages such as:HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Performance, Monitoring, Conduct, and Compliance Department Project lead, workflow designer and point of contact to the contracted development company in the creation of two custom department (Finance & Compliance) internal software programs (MS Access and SharePoint). My role focused on research, documentation, site architecture, data records and workflow.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Having worked in these two roles during my 7 years at the BCUC, I understood how the software and data must work together for the above two programs.

Holland, Mi, 49423, Us

• Created/Edited graphics for company catalogue with Illustrator• Designed layout/format for 11 various catalogues using InDesign • Proof read/edited every catalogue page and prepared for print • Updated old catalogues using Acrobat Professional• Utilized precise knowledge of product to ensure catalogue information is correct

Digital Design And Development Diploma (With Distinction), Ux/Ui Design, Graphics, Animation, Development, Project Management

Certificate, User Experience Design

Certificate, Graphic Design And Web Design