Certified User-Centered UI Designer, MS
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- UX Designer at Microsoft
- Past
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- Product designer III, contractor at Microsoft
- Sr. UI Designer, Contractor at Amazon.com
- UI designer, Intern at Amazon.com
- Graphic/Web designer, Freelancer at self-employed
- Web Designer at ArtLebedev.ru
- Education
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- University of Washington
- School of Visual Concepts (post graduate education)
- Moskovskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet Putej Soobšcenija
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Anastasia Paushkina’s Experience
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UX Designer
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
1. Designed new live.com home page starting from conceptual explorations and finishing with shipping it on June 2008.
2. Own design of Commerce vertical.
3. Designed Autosuggest which is currently in limited testing. -
Product designer III, contractor
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
October 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 2 months)
1. Was responsible for early quick visualizing new ideas for web apps given just rough description (Live Search on Facebook (Zine) and others).
2. Proposed and visualized my own ideas for a couple of rich web and stand-alone products.
3. Designed flowcharts, wire frames and final look, feel & behavior of a new desktop app SideGuide.
4. Worked on interaction models for a new Silverlight MSN toolbar during early stages of the design. Came up to an intersting solution which is currently in use. -
Sr. UI Designer, Contractor
Amazon.com
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Online Media industry)
February 2006 — August 2006 (7 months)
Designed flowcharts, wireframes and final look, feel & behavior of a new Amazon sub store. While being a “normal” store with its own search and browse systems, it had unique business concept, which was challenging yet fun to implement.
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UI designer, Intern
Amazon.com
(Public Company; Online Media industry)
April 2005 — December 2005 (9 months)
1. Was responsible for creating flowcharts, wireframes and visuals for buying process. The focus was on such complex use cases as scheduled delivery; delivery to multiple places; organizing a cart if there are more than 10 items with different delivery options (e.g. grossery buying and shipping scenario); "gift" scenario and "1 click".
2. Designed internal web site “Best of Breed”
3. Designed promotional banners and store decorations. -
Graphic/Web designer, Freelancer
self-employed
(Online Media industry)
1998 — March 2005 (7 years)
Worked remotly for Europe.
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Web Designer
ArtLebedev.ru
(Online Media industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year)
Designed, updated, and edited client Web sites for optimum user experience for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art._Lebedev_Studio"> leading </a> Russian design company with major clients such as Microsoft, Samsung, and Ikea.
I worked there till I moved to US.
Anastasia Paushkina’s Education
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University of Washington
Certificate , User-Centered Design, Masters program , 2003 — 2005
Current GPA 3.8
The User-Centered Design Certificate Program, a sub-set of Department of Technical Communication's M.S. degree program, equips students to use such methods as: user-centered design and evaluation, usability testing, and systems-based analyses. -
School of Visual Concepts (post graduate education)
Certificate , Graphic design , 2002 — 2005
Student stands out among all the students I have taught...
Anastasia's area of strength described as: creativity, technical competence, a very hand worker...
Anastasia's mastery of concepting skills described as: exceptional...
Loved having Anastasia in my class! she always was looking to do something new and different. She always challenged herself and succeed...
Student's area of strength described as: concepting skills...
Student's mastery of execution skills described as: outstanding! Anastasia's work was always produced cleanly and professionally...
Student's mastery of concepting skills described as: Outstanding! Anastasia always pushed herself to create something conceptual and unique. The results were always unexpected...
Skill level: outstanding - very advanced...
Excellent concepting abilities; worked very hard to apply it to the project format...
Anastasia's area of strength described as: Photography and typography, comping skills... -
Moskovskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet Putej Soobšcenija
Master, Engineer , Computer Science; Engeneering , 1992 — 1997
Students were trained to recognize, analyze, and build complex systems. My focus was on graphic oriented software for building construction, but the range of systems we've studied was really broad (expert systems, construction systems, software applications, etc)
As a side of it we've learned such computer languages as C, C++, Visual Basic, SQL, Lisp.
Additional Information
Anastasia Paushkina’s Interests:
singing, solving puzzels of all kinds, skiing, reading, badminton, writing, looking for a meaning of life as lots of Russians do, eating food, sleeping on mornings (I'm a night owl)
Anastasia Paushkina’s Groups:
I'm by myself
Anastasia Paushkina’s Honors:
My friend and I got the first prize for the web site that we designed within 2 weeks. This contest was organized by Microsoft&Amazon in 2006. People from all over the world participated in it.
Read more here: http://bowgett.com/my10wishes/Winner.htm
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