Adam Schilling

Adam Schilling

UX Designer & Information Architect

Melbourne Area, Australia

Current
  • User Experience Ninja at 99designs
  • UX Designer & Information Architect at Sabrestyle
Past
  • Product & Marketing Manager at 360desktop
  • Senior UI Designer at 360desktop
  • Web Developer at DesignStorm
  • IT Projects Coordinator at South Australian Tourism Commission
  • Instructor at Futurekids
Education
  • Invisage Australia
  • Spherion Education
  • University of South Australia
  • Hallett Cove R-12 School
Connections
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Industry
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Websites

Adam Schilling’s Summary

I believe great design solutions should be usable and accessible without sacrificing aesthetics.

I am a hard working, committed worker with excellent leadership skills and excel when given a problem and a team of people to manage in solving it.

I don't take it home with me - I bring it to work.

Adam Schilling’s Specialties:

Interaction design, user experience design, standards-compliant web design, user-centred design, user interface and information design, product design, usability testing, accessibility, semantics, microformats, CSS, XHTML, HTML, JS (libraries: jQuery, Prototype, etc).

Strategic planning, requirement gathering, project proposals and plans, information architecture, site mapping, wireframing, developing use-cases.

Empathy, imagination, determination.


Adam Schilling’s Experience

  • User Experience Ninja

    99designs

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    August 2008Present (1 year)

  • UX Designer & Information Architect

    Sabrestyle

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    December 2006Present (2 years 8 months)

  • Product & Marketing Manager

    360desktop

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2007July 2008 (9 months)

    Strategic planning, requirement gathering, project proposals and plans, information architecture, site mapping, wireframing, developing use-cases.

    Introduced 'scrum' agile development philosophies and encouraged adoption of issue tracking and product management software, such as JIRA, Confluence (a wiki) and activeCollab (a project management tool).

    Planned and tracked marketing campaigns.

    Liased with CEO, partners, potential partners, and other shareholders.

    Managed team of eleven (developers, designers, marketing co-ordinators, release manager, etc), as well as team of 2-6 offshore developers.

    Managed deadlines, feature development and implementation, user experience and quality assurance.

    Wrote job specifications and advertised, interviewed and recommended new employees.

  • Senior UI Designer

    360desktop

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 2007November 2007 (4 months)

    Designed corporate identity (logo, stationery, website, etc) and style guide.

    Designed UI for unique 360-degree rotating (virtual) desktop, including controls for panning/navigating the desktop, adding websites, widgets, and images to the desktop, and browsing for new (360-degree background) content via a remote API, along with several alternate/future user interfaces that should further address usability, accessibility and provide a more pleasing overall user experience.

    Designed robust web widget version of 360desktop, for viral use on Facebook, MySpace and other social networks.

    Liaised and collaborated with technical lead and other developers.

  • Web Developer

    DesignStorm

    (Online Media industry)

    July 2005December 2006 (1 year 6 months)

  • IT Projects Coordinator

    South Australian Tourism Commission

    (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

    October 2001June 2005 (3 years 9 months)

  • Instructor

    Futurekids

    (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)

    December 1997July 1999 (1 year 8 months)


Adam Schilling’s Education

  • Invisage Australia

    Certificate IV , Marketing , 20032004

  • Spherion Education

    Certificate IV , Microcomputer Technology , 20002001

  • University of South Australia

    DBVC , Illustration, Graphic Design , 19982000

  • Hallett Cove R-12 School

    SACE , Art, Biology, Design, Drama, English, Information Technology , 19901997

    Activities and Societies:
    School Captain, SRC

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Adam Schilling’s Interests:

basketball, cooking, illustration, innovation, music, photography, pop culture, reading, science, skiing, snowboarding, technology, typography, writing, zoology

Adam Schilling’s Groups:

  •    Interaction Design Association
  •    UX Professionals
  •    WSG
  •    Web Standards Design + Development

Adam Schilling’s Contact Settings

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  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
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