Aaron Pearlman Email & Phone Number

Michigan, United States

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Built a UX discipline creating standards around user research, ideation, sketching, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing.Established branding and philosophical design direction for the organization.Managed small team of designers--overseeing their designs, growing their UX design skills, and teaching effective accessible design techniques.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Blackbaud is the market leader in fundraising software committed to helping nonprofit organizations achieve their missions.As a UX designer, my day-to-day included conducting user research, ideation, sketching, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing. My team was dedicated to delivering delightful user experiences through our focus on collaboration, critique, and communication of a common vision. My specific role focused on strategic leadership designing a fully cloud-based platform with behavioral and brand consistency for their entire portfolio.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

-Designed and tested rich media application for creating Flash widgets used in behavioral medical research for eliciting risk to patients.-Designed, programmed, tested, launched and administered nationwide, web-based preliminary research medical surveys using Ruby on Rails, Ruby, CSS, and AJAX.-Collaborated with research investigators in developing survey content and research goals.-Designed and developed extensive content management departmental website and project manager, backed by a RDBMS (MySQL), on Ruby on Rails, AJAX and Flash

-Evaluated the UI and user experience of statistical time-space software package, STIS.-Led the deconstruction and redevelopment process of the aforementioned software, including collaborative critiques and instituting an iterative development framework.-Headed a cross-disciplinary, visual and design conference to critique my team's designs.-Researched, designed, and preliminarily tested a full working wire frame for v2.0 of STIS using Adobe Illustrator CS3; scoped STIS for a new target audience for entry in the commercial market.

-Updated and maintained pre-existing outdated departmental website.-Researched, designed and created extensive University language resource website.-Designed and created two online student serving databases for language conversation and tutor exchange.-Trained successor for websites' future updates and maintenance.

Msi, Human-Computer Interaction

Ba, Creative Writing, Italian Language And Literature

Italian Language And Literature

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