Austin, Texas Area
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- Digital Media Designer at frog design, inc.
- Past
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- Art Director/Designer at Oak Sanderson
- Designer at Portaris, Inc. (aka The Internet Design Firm)
- Education
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- Southwest Texas State University-San Marcos
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Erin Jacobs’s Summary
More than ten years of experience creating successful communication design for clients from Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries; to local business owners, and music artists on traditional print media projects, multimedia marketing pieces, interactive and online experiences; software and embedded product UI designs.
My ability to perform multiple roles— Design Lead, Interaction and/or Visual Designer, Illustrator, Copywriter, Art Director; and even a bit of program management—both solely or as a team member in collaborative design situations.
Erin Jacobs’s Specialties:
Visual and Interaction Design for Web, Software, Mobile Apps and Device UI, and Embedded Product UI's. UI/UX Design and Documentation, Illustration, Information Architecture, Project Design Lead, Art Direction, Copywriting, Advertising and Marketing Design, Print Design
Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Acrobat, Omnigraffle, Powerpoint, Word, Dreamweaver/BBEdit
Erin Jacobs’s Experience
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Digital Media Designer
frog design, inc.
(Design industry)
June 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)
Innovative user focused interaction and visual design solutions for complex design problems for a variety of digital media projects: media entertainment televisions, digital cameras, mobile phones and devices, embedded interfaces, websites and software applications.
Project and Product Concepting, Creation of interaction workflows and wireframes, visual designs, UI design system documentation and specifications and future strategies.
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Art Director/Designer
Oak Sanderson
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
August 2001 — April 2004 (2 years 9 months)
Interesting and engaging interactive 3-D marketing campaigns, websites and online software applicaitons, product packaging, event materials, and advertising and promotional design for local and national Fortune 500 companies and local small businesses.
Project concepting, copywriting, layout and visual design, print and pre-press production, art direction, html and asp programming, fulfillment and mock-up construction.
Clients included Advanced Micro Devices, PeopleSoft, CCH, Colin Medical Corporation, Nu-kote International, Emerson Process Management, and S1 Corporation. -
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Portaris, Inc. (aka The Internet Design Firm)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
June 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 1 month)
Website and online software design for clients such as Forgent Corporation (formerly VTEL), BuilderHome Site, Marquis Bank and the Central Texas Direct Marketing Association.
Information Architecture, copywriting, visual design and graphic production, html and javascript programming.
Erin Jacobs’s Education
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Southwest Texas State University-San Marcos
BFA , Communication Design , 1996 — 1999
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User Experience
Erin Jacobs’s Honors:
Three-time member of award winning design and development teams in the Austin Accessibility Internet Rally: 2nd place Portaris team 2000, 3rd place Oak Sanderson team, 2001, 1st place frogdesign team 2004.
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