UI/UX Designer

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www.clarissaishak.com

Interaction Design

Visual Design

Wireframing & Prototyping

Information Architecture

Front-end Development

Usability Testing

Human Factors Engineering

Ethnography

Cultural Probe

Participatory Workshop

Journey Framework

Heuristic Evaluation

User Persona Design

Scenario & Storyboard

Design & Development Research Methods

My passion is in developing detailed and thoughtful design ideas to create an innovative product. Aiming to design for emotions, I strive to give the user a delightful and engaging experience by iteratively improving the design based on user feedback. Worked closely with other researchers to redesign web screen layout using HTML5 and CSS3 for The Gauntlet study. Also responsible for the project Yummer where I began with hand-sketched ideas and progressed iteratively to prototyping stage. Involved in creating survey questions, gathering participants, and analyzing the data for Human Proxy study.

Result:

Gather general idea on what people think about using Human Proxy to attend their classes

Get hands-on experience on how to create meaningful survey questions

UI/UX Researcher

Connections Lab, SFU May 2014 - January 2015

Responsible for handling all the visual requests that came from various teams. Heavily involved in visual design for print material, from battery label designs to the new BlackBerry phone’s user manual. Also participated in many usability studies and personas creation for the Design Insights team. This position helped me to understand different requirements for designing a world-class product. Result:

Polish my graphic skills and understand different

requirements for designing a world-class product

Experience how research and usability test are used in a real work environment

Visual Designer

BlackBerry Ltd. September 2012 - August 2013

Photoshop

Proficient

Flash

Intermediate

Axure

Intermediate

Illustrator

Proficient

HTML5

Advanced

CSS3

Advanced

Java

Intermediate

JavaScript

Beginner

Highligh of Skill

M perience

www.clarissaishak.com

Learn about new projects that I never handled before, such as email campaign template, web banner, etc.

Learn about maximizing web efficiency for users

Designed a water laboratory space aimed to increase efficiency during water testing process by improving the interaction. I started with ethnography research to gain insights on their activity. Other research methods used included cultural probes, informances, user personas, participatory workshop, storyboards, and journey

frameworks. Following this, a video prototype was

created to better communicate the idea.

President’s Honour Roll (Average A grade)

Golden Key International Honour Society Invitee

Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award

Related courses:

Advanced Human-Computer Interaction

Design Evaluation

Interface Design

Interaction Design Methods

Web Design & Development

Data Visualization

The Mad Lab

Interaction Design, Prototyping, Research

Simon Fraser University

B.Sc Interactive Arts & Technology- Design Concentration Dean’s Honour Roll (Average A- grade)

Merrit Scholarship Award (financial award for > 3.50 GPA) Related courses:

Visual Composition

Life Drawing & Anatomy

Digital Editing

Storyboard for Animation

3D Modelling

Web Animation

Color Theory

The Art Institute of Vancouver

Diploma in Animation Arts & Design

Designed and developed an interactive prototype for a digital urban guide that helps the user discover and plan activities based on a predetermined budget. I was

responsible for creating user personas, journey framework, wireframes, interaction design, and learned how to do interactive prototyping in Axure. In addition, I conducted usability tests and heuristics evaluations for the app to make sure the screens flow smoothly.

Impulse App

UI Design, Prototyping, Usability Test

Worked closely with the development team to produce effective web design, an email campaign and visual design for collateral such as posters and restaurant menus. Assisted in the organization of Ballistic Arts 10th Anniversary event. Result:

Media Designer

Ballistic Arts Media Studio July - August 2012

Involved from the first phase of designing the game concept for a social online game. Other than focusing on creating user-centered interface, I also had a chance to build a simple Flash mini-game prototype using ActionScript 3.0. Result:

Interactive Designer

Footprints Productions Ltd. June 2011 - June 2012 Getting familiar with game design process

Practice and learn new skills in Object-Oriented

Programming using ActionScript 3.0

Schoo Project

M Educatio

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