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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 develop new features, research customer needs, explore concepts, and improve the user experience.Projects I've worked on include: • 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).• Designed tools to automatically calculate and file tax forms online (NZ GST and IRS 1099 filling).Skills I've developed include:• Conducting customer interviews, running usability tests, and identifying user objectives.• Working with product teams to explain user goals, task flows and UX issues.• Providing design feedback, mentorship, and spreading customer empathy.• Content design, interaction design, visual design.• Prototyping, wire-framing, and interactive mockups.

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 included: • 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• Collaborated with content writers and a web developer.• Restructured information to meet customer needs• Established visual and structural guidelines for consistency• Produced content driven wireframes• Designed visual mockups• Wrote front end code (HTML / CSS)

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 mentoring service (Professional Pathways).

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.