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Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand (Remote)

Auckland, New Zealand

London, United Kingdom

At Geckoboard I was involved with all things impacting the user experience. I worked closely with software teams, conducted user research, designed prototypes, and helped spread empathy for users.

Wellington, New Zealand

• Xero is the global leader in cloud based accounting with over 1 million paid subscribers (as of April 2017). As a product designer at Xero I worked closely with other designers, developers and product managers to.
• Leading the redesign of Xero's financial reporting tools.
• Designing an advanced online editor for accountants to fully customise financial reports.
• Structural and visual design of all financial reports.
• Partnered with a researcher to conduct a study into the reporting needs of small businesses owners.
• Improved the discoverability of commonly used reports (Redesigned report center).

New Zealand

• As a Marketing Designer I was responsible for improving the marketing website www.xero.com and creating advertising material to promote Xero's online accounting software.My achievements included:
• Collaborating with sales, marketing and product teams to understand their marketing objectives.
• Designing an online careers section to attract more talent to Xero.
• Designing custom landing pages to target specific customers.
• Helping track and understand website usage.
• Creating a range of advertisements for newspapers and magazines.

New Zealand

• Mitsubishi Electric sell quality home appliances such as refrigerators and air conditioning units. As Marketing Designer I was responsible for creating material to promote their brand and products. My responsibilities.
• Designing product catalogues
• Creating advertisements for magazines, billboards and point of sale
• Producing a monthly industry magazineIn addition to this I used my skills as an web designer to redesign the online experience of mitsubishi-electric.co.nz
• Led the redesign mitsubishi-electric.co.nz
• Conducted user interviews and meet with internal stakeholders

New Zealand

• As a self employed web designer I developed a broad skill set.
• Meeting with clients and managing relationships
• Advising businesses about their online strategy
• Designing websites and promotional material.
• Coding and deploying simple websites (Wordpress / HTML & CSS)My clients included a lawn mowing company (Lawn Enforcement), a legal service (The Law Guide), an outdoor advertising company (Campus Channel), and a student.

Bachelor Of Design With Honours, Visual Communication Design

Massey University is the top-ranked design school in New Zealand and Australia by Red Dot global design awards. I studied a four year.

Master Of Design, Interaction Design

The Master of Design is an advanced research qualification exploring creative research practices as well as applied problem solving. My.