Steven

UI/UX Designer and English Teacher
35 years oldGraphic/Visual DesignCome from Canada Living in Shanghai
Language: French, Mandarin, English
Steven M CONTACTS E-mail: steveneska@outlook.com WeChat: steveneska Skype: steveneska Telephone: +86 136 6164 7464 CAREER OBJECTIVE I am a young and proactive designer with over three years of experience in web design, UI and UX design. I currently work for Strikingly as a Product Designer tasked to design the next experiences of the company website builder. I build beautiful and functional user experiences using industry standard software like Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate, Experience Design or other apps like Sketch. I also have working knowledge with programming languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Thanks to my extensive knowledge of UI and UX principles and design, designing in an agile environment from unpacking ideas with a team to testing them while passing by sketching and building prototypes is a methodology that I have continuously applied to my work to bring forward simple and balanced user experiences that fit project requirements, by using approved design practices in mobile and web coupled with user research and needs to set the project goals. Furthermore, I am used to working in an international and competitive environment thanks to the fact that I can speak three languages and that my fluency in French, English, and Chinese is proven. I am a workaholic person who takes a lot of pride in the work that I produce and that likes challenge. I am currently looking for a company that will put me ahead of the curve in fulfilling my career goals and allow me to work in a field that requires my skills, my passion and my insight to reach new boundaries every day. WORK EXPERIENCE Since March 2018 STRIKINGLY | PRODUCT DESIGNER (UX) Design mock-ups of features and build their experience for the website builder Strikingly based on user research and feedback. Document the design feature specs for their implementation by the programming team. Follow the features testing with the QA team and oversee their release to production channels. August 2017 – March 2018 SHANLIN FINANCIAL | USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER Designed web-based interfaces for internal blockchain projects building HTML canvas, CSS and JS animations with Create.js or JQuery and documenting their implementation for the developers. Followed research to set projects UX goals, build mockups in Sketch and validate the design with the development team for release or update. November 2015 - July 2017 SYMTECH SOLAR | UI/UX DESIGNER Designed mock-ups with Ps and built functional UX prototypes with Xd for the company solar web-app. Documented the UX design specs of each features of the web-app for the development team in Spain and oversaw the implementation through development. Lead user research to define UX design goals and implementation for the company web-app and internal resource planning software to reflect the company business processes for partners, sales and engineering teams. Focused on providing a simplified end-user experience to skyrocket leads conversions through the projects. March 2015 - November 2015 SHANGHAI JUNGLE | WEB DESIGNER Designed high fidelity, responsive mock-ups to exhibit the company new website with Ps and detailed the UX choices to reflect the vision of the company services in the Chinese market on devices of different screen sizes. Worked with WordPress to implement the design and bring the new user experience of the company's website forward on the web and on mobile devices using HTML, CSS, JS and PHP. RECENT PROJECT EXPERIENCE STRIKINGLY My responsibilities with the Strikingly Editor was to design and implement product features requested by our users through our channels. I successfully implemented features like the European Union GDPR compliance for the website builder, redesigned the advanced styles panel editor and followed with product shipping feature for the Simple Store addon of the website builder all based on user research and feedback conducted through our channels. ROTOAVA My responsibilities with this project were to build the platform brand. On the design side, I created the logo of the platform, and laid the UI of the web-app with Sketch on OSX. Furthermore, I refined the user experience adding JavaScript based character animations to showcase each area of the website and created HTML canvas drawing the audio waveform users would see when playing songs on the website. I also handled extensive testing of the design choices made. SYMTECH SOLAR WEB-APP My responsibilities were to design the user interface of the web-app and refine its experience following today’s industry standards and document them for the Symtech Solar team based in Spain that was in charge of its development. High fidelity mockups and prototypes were built with Adobe Experience Design and logo and icons were built in Illustrator following internal project guidelines and visual identity. I was to make sure the team in Spain follows the project technology requirements set in the documents while discussing improvements based on their feedback and technology limitations. SYMTECH SOLAR RESOURCE PLANING SOFTWARE My responsibilities were to build a company internal ERP that would be used as a backbone of the business and the company’s partners, following project guidelines set by the engineering and sales teams from the ground up. That included the use of previously designed assets to craft an experience simple enough to answer to the needs of the salesmen but yet technical enough for the engineers assembling product kits through the software. EDUCATION 2014 - 2015 SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY | Chinese Language | HSK 2009 - 2013 E.S.T. LITORAL | Computer Science | Bachelor CERTIFICATES 2015 新汉语水平考试 HSK(四级) 2015 汉语水平考试(HSK)A 级 SPOKEN LANGUAGES English (bilingual) French (native) Chinese (advanced)