
User Experience Designer and Researcher
Toronto, Canada Area

User Experience Designer and Researcher
Toronto, Canada Area
Experienced in designing interactive systems for web, mobile and desktop software applications. Experienced in working with subject matter experts to help define product concepts and feature sets.
Industry experience includes consumer digital media-editing and media management, financial services, online content publishing & development and e-commerce.
Interaction Design / Information Architecture – analyzed user needs to build features/functions using methodologies such as task analysis, use case scenarios and user profiling (personas), heuristic evaluations; translated business requirements to functional and content requirements; documented functional and user interface specs
Research – conducted field research on customer’s digital media use; product usability testing; market research, competitive analysis; anthropological training at the post-graduate level included research methodologies, fieldwork, participant observation, questionnaire design and interviewing
Project Management – managed multiple projects simultaneously, from initial conception through design, and development, including follow-up usability feedback during implementation; collaborated with diverse project team; excellent communication skills
User process workflow and interaction design, usability testing and expert reviews, field studies and ethnography, questionnaire design and data analysis, user analysis, requirements and specification writing, presentation, user-centred design methodology