Dustin Williams

Dustin Williams

Interaction & Visual Designer - RELMONE.COM

Greater Seattle Area

Current
  • Interaction & Visual Designer at Microsoft
  • Freelance Web Designer and Developer at Weapons of Mass Media
  • Freelance Web Designer at FirstandUnion.com
  • Freelance Interaction & Visual Designer at relmone.com
Past
  • User Experience & Web Designer at SecondSpace, Inc
  • Interaction Designer at Teague
  • Creative Director at Perks.com
  • Web Designer / Developer at Einstein Systems, Inc.
  • Web Designer / Developer at CognitiveDATA
Education
  • University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Connections
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Industry
Design
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Dustin Williams’s Summary

Dustin started life as a developer, which influences his design. He draws on keen understanding, experience, seeing, and confidence to design with clean lines and strong user focus.

Dustin’s many specialties all have “user experience” at their core. They include Branding, Interaction Design, User Interface Design, Website Design, Website Development, Graphic Design and Usability. His other skills also include: User Interface Prototyping, Storyboards and Wireframing Scenarios, Information Architecture, Mobile Device Interaction and Social Device Interaction.

Dustin has done work for many Fortune 500 companies, often employing user research to focus on usability. One of those companies being Microsoft. He helped the Pioneer Studios (PMX) team out with various Interaction Design and User Interface work.

He’s comfortable with CSS/HTML Development, PHP, and Flash among many other tools, including almost everything that starts with “Adobe.”

Dustin Williams’s Specialties:

Branding, Interaction Design, User Interface Design, Website Design, Website Development, Graphic Design, Usability, User Interface Prototyping, Storyboards and Wirefaming Scenarios,Information Architecture, Mobile Device Interaction, Social Device Interaction


Dustin Williams’s Experience

  • Interaction & Visual Designer

    Microsoft

    (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    July 2008Present (1 year 5 months)

    Entertainment & Devices Division:
    Creation of User Interface Design Concepts, Flash User Interface Prototyping, Develop Storyboards and Wirefaming Scenarios, Information Architecture, Mobile Device Interaction, User Centered Design

  • Freelance Web Designer and Developer

    Weapons of Mass Media

    (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

    June 2007Present (2 years 6 months)

    Freelance website designer and developer primarily tasked with creating HTML and CSS layouts.

  • Freelance Web Designer

    FirstandUnion.com

    (Internet industry)

    2007Present (2 years )

    Freelance website designer and developer primarily tasked with creating Design Concepts and developing those concepts into HTML and CSS layout(s).

  • Freelance Interaction & Visual Designer

    relmone.com

    (Design industry)

    2000Present (9 years )

    I am a Freelance Designer that loves to create beautiful and functional user interfaces.

    * Website Designer
    * Interaction Designer
    * User Experience Designer

  • User Experience & Web Designer

    SecondSpace, Inc

    (Real Estate industry)

    March 2008June 2008 (4 months)

    Roles & Responsibilities:

    *Design focused deliverables such as task flows, content strategies, information architectures, site maps, wireframes, functional specs to communicate decisions to creative, development, and leadership teams.

    *Photoshop Design Concepts and creation of HTML and CSS for those concepts.

  • Interaction Designer

    Teague

    (Design industry)

    August 2007March 2008 (8 months)

    Create User Interface Design Concepts, Flash User Interface Prototyping, Develop Storyboards and Wirefaming Scenarios, Information Architecture, Mobile Device Interaction, User Centered Design

  • Creative Director

    Perks.com

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    April 2004August 2007 (3 years 5 months)

    Responsible for overseeing Creative Department, Prioritizing Workflow, Documentation, Monthly, Quarterly (QBR) and Yearly (YBR) Departmental Presentations.

    * Manage a team of designers, illustrators, web designers and animators
    * Participate hands-on in conception, design, and production as needed
    * Proactively develop strategies and presentation tools for the team
    * Deliver industry-best creative pitches in a variety of mediums: interactive, motion and print
    * Develop and implement design and technical standards for the Creative team’s work.
    * Exercise creative freedom with the ability to work as an independent team
    * Advance the state of online creative through innovative concepts
    * Website Layout Design and Development
    * Web-based Programming (ASP, HMTL, CSS, Java Scripting)
    * Adobe Flash Animation Development and Actionscripting
    * Email Campaign Design and Broadcasting
    * Banner Ad Design
    * Logo Design and Branding

  • Web Designer / Developer

    Einstein Systems, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    April 2000April 2004 (4 years 1 month)

  • Web Designer / Developer

    CognitiveDATA

    (Internet industry)

    20002004 (4 years )


Dustin Williams’s Education

  • University of Arkansas at Little Rock

    studio art, computer science 19931999


Additional Information

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Dustin Williams’s Interests:

user interface design, user experience, usability, web design, user interface prototyping, information architecture, mobile device interaction, mobile device interaction, user centered design

Dustin Williams’s Groups:

Interaction Design Association

  •    Interaction Design Association
  •    User Experience
  •    Accelerate Arkansas
  •    Innovate Arkansas

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