Senior Interaction Desiger at Autodesk
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Senior Interaction Designer - PSEB at Autodesk
- Alumni LinkedIn Coordinator at Rhode Island School of Design
- Past
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- Primary at FAIRHOUSE
- Senior Interaction Designer at Ammunition
- Interaction Designer at MetaDesign
- Lead Experience Design Consultant at iconmobile
- Consultant Designer at PUNCHCUT
- Consultant Designer at Tellart
- Designer at Lunar Design
- Designer & Illustrator at ReadyMade
- Education
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- Rhode Island School of Design
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Brown University
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Jared Zimmerman’s Summary
Designing and Improving products, services, and processes to make them easier to use, more functional, intuitive, and beautiful.
Jared Zimmerman’s Specialties:
Interaction Design,
Experience Design,
User Interface Design,
Information Architecture,
Mobile UI Design,
Branding & Identity,
Copy-writing & Editorial Strategy,
Naming,
User Research,
Product Design,
Design Direction,
User Research,
Market Strategy,
Visual Design,
Typeface design,
Product design
Jared Zimmerman’s Experience
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Senior Interaction Designer - PSEB
Autodesk
(Public Company; ADSK; Computer Software industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
Collaborating with engineers, visual artists, and user experience researchers to create new software solutions architecture professionals with the platform solutions & emerging business team.
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Alumni LinkedIn Coordinator
Rhode Island School of Design
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
Traditions of accomplishment and achievement distinguish RISD’s 21,000 alumni, who have earned some of the most prominent positions in their respective fields. Their success is a tribute to the talents they possess and the energy with which they have been pursued.
Connect with Past alumni and make new connections.
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Primary
FAIRHOUSE
(Graphic Design industry)
2003 — November 2009 (6 years )
Creating strong brand presence and corporate identities. Positioning for target market adoption and clarity with strategy and guidelines.
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Senior Interaction Designer
Ammunition
(Partnership; Design industry)
October 2008 — June 2009 (9 months)
Led teams to design on-screen and physical interfaces, interactions, and processes for industry leaders. Managed visual designers and
developers to translate wireframes and interactions into final products. Worked with clients to understand user needs through ethnographic
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Interaction Designer
MetaDesign
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
June 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 4 months)
Working with major software, web, and consumer goods companies on advanced user experience design projects. Auditing and understanding existing user experiences and streamlining them through new task flows and visual systems.
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Lead Experience Design Consultant
iconmobile
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 2008 — February 2008 (2 months)
Led team designing mobile map based service application utilizing location-based systems. Worked with Information Architect to create a seamless experience for a range of mobile devices with different input methods. Directed Visual Designer on look and feel to create an experience that was visually rich and inline with current user aesthetics.
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Consultant Designer
PUNCHCUT
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
December 2006 — June 2007 (7 months)
Designing for the small screen with top tier mobile providers and MVNOs.Visual reference guide design. Creating visual style, icon and skin design for mobile interfaces. Porting of designs between varying mobile handsets.
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Consultant Designer
Tellart
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year )
Streamlining process flows for instructional graphics, project ideation and sketching, prototyping for web and multimedia interfaces. Designing Client proposal visualizations.
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Designer
Lunar Design
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
2004 — 2004 (less than a year)
Consulting on visual and industrial design for consumer goods. Promotional advertising, brand identities, web design & engineering. Preparing material specifications for mobile and desktop devices.
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Designer & Illustrator
ReadyMade
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
2004 — 2004 (less than a year)
Designing for print, direct marketing, and product packaging. Creating promotional advertising, illustrations for publication, product photography & packaging, assisting studio and on site photography shoots.
Jared Zimmerman’s Education
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Rhode Island School of Design
BGD , Graphic Design , 2001 — 2006
special concentration in material production methods - ceramic castings, printing, photography, robotics, human factors
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Rhode Island School of Design
BFA , Fine Arts, Photography , 2001 — 2005
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Brown University
Trends in New Media Culture 2003 — 2004
Additional Information
Jared Zimmerman’s Websites:
Jared Zimmerman’s Interests:
cooking, kayaking, extensive reading, music collecting, building electronics, silk screening, art, design, green practices, travel, locative technology, circuit bending
Jared Zimmerman’s Groups:
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Creative Dilemmas
Jared Zimmerman’s Honors:
The Web Index | Influential Web Design ‘07
Selected works featured, Pepin Press, Amsterdam
US Department of Energy + NREL | Solar Decathlon ‘05
Collaborated with RISD architecture in international green building competition
Microsoft Research | International Design Expo ‘05
Competition winner with Matt Grigsby for RX medication distribution system
Bas Jacobs + Underware | TwoForAll: Type Design ‘05
Competition winner with Brandon Kauffman for modular type design
Work In Progress | RISD architectural quarterly | Issue 9, ‘04
Mai-Mai: a shelter in New Zealand
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