Kevin Allen Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Washington, United States

• Built and evangelized a comprehensive design system from scratch with hundreds of configurable components to set a scalable, cohesive look and feel for a variety of mortgage industry B2B-SaaS applications used by.
• Owned complex B2B projects from concept to production, performing all aspects of product design, including wireframing, visual design, advanced prototyping, UX writing, interaction and motion design.
• Calmly handled a shifting landscape of changing requirements, business pressure, and lack of resources.
• Introduced the concept of user research to the company, establishing usability testing as a key component of the design process. Conducted moderated tests with dozens of users, resulting in 28% reduced training time.
• Mentored and coached a team of 2 junior designers and 6 business analysts on using the SitusAMC design system in Figma, speeding up the design process for several applications by over 50% and allowing a small design.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and translate them into actionable steps, and with developers to ensure high quality final product, reducing visual bug reports to 0.

• Sole designer at an iOS app startup, responsible for ideation, UX and visual design, and marketing for three applications including a document scanner and a photo gallery.
• Redesigned a mobile fortune telling app, raising it from #714 in its category to #4 Top Paid Overall in the U.S. in the iOS App Store - a 37,000% increase in customer engagement.
• Performed market research and competitive analysis, identifying App Store niches with money-making potential and ways to compete and win in those niches, contributing to our apps collectively grossing over $3.5 million.
• Analyzed user reviews to identify, categorize, and roadmap requested features.

• Designed iOS and web application icons and UI based on client direction.
• Worked with stakeholders and clients to understand their needs and realize their vision.
• Worked with deeloeprs to translate designs to a quality product.
• Designed, marketed, and sold iPhone themes (replacement icon sets) on the Cydia Store.

• Full-stack UX/UI designer for cross-platform Enterprise applications.
• Worked with clients to realize their vision.
• Clients included Bank of America and the U.S. Green Building Council.

Greater Detroit Area

• Created detailed cross-platform wireframes based on client vision.
• Adapted wireframes into functional interactive prototypes & visual designs.
• Worked with developers to implement designs & achieve quality products.