Aaron Wilson Interaction Designer

workaarondid.webflow.io ad3tdj@r.postjobfree.com 805-***-****

Experience

Creative Strategist & Interaction Design lxD @ workaarondid SP

Oct 2013 - Present

Interaction Design, Strategy, and Research for web, mobile, Saas, and interactive OTT experiences. I've worked with clients such as CBC, NBC Sports, DIRECTV, Microsoft, Dell, WeWork, and GoDaddy.

Sr. User Experience Design @ Amazon

May 2022 - Aug 2023 I Remote

I'm currently working on designing enterprise software and internal tooling for AWS FinTech. Some of my responsibilities are but are not limited to:

•Planning and facilitating workshops

•Planning and conducting research study plans

•User testing/planning

•Synthesizing results into digestible storytelling

•I spear headed an initiative to build a research repository

•I conducted Heuristic evaluations

•Visual design

•Validating experiences or interactions with prototypes

•I lead a pod of three designers

•Decreased analyst time of searching and pulling reports for cost allocation company-wide by 16 hours a week while increasing their productivity by 30%

Product Design Lead @ Funsize

Nov 2020 - May 2022 I Remote

GoDaddy-

•I worked with the GoDaddy UX Core product team working alongside two other product designers on payments for E-commerce.

•Usability testing as well as synthesis

•I created a research study plan that was widely used throughout the team

•I contributed insights to a research repository

•Expanded the core design system with documentation, and guidelines, and introducing interactive components

•I also worked closely with the engineering team to validate the feasibility of ideations

Dell-

•I worked on growing their design system and language, documentation, defining guidelines and interactive component work.

•I also worked on a new Experience Management for IT Admin enterprise customers

Volvo-

•I helped the Volvo team with their in-car UI to how physical buttons can control the in-car DIM display initiative. Along with in-car dashboards with their Gothenburg team, and interfaces for their advanced rechargeable pad technology.

Interaction Design lxD Lead @ Huge Inc. (Contract)

Aug 2020 - Nov 2020 I Remote

Realtor.com -

•I worked with the Huge design group handling the Realtor.com account.

•The objectives and goals that we worked on were to solve for and define four major brand pillars-Control, Guidance, Intelligence, and Advocacy.

•I facilitating a series of brand workshops that were synthesized into digestible documentation for the stakeholders.

Interaction Design lxD & Product Strategy @ Hello Design (Acquired)

Aug 2019 - Apr 2020, Culver City, Ca

•I facilitated strategic alignment with clients through frameworks such as workshops to define business objectives, goals, and measurable outcomes.

•I helped the internal team(s) understand stakeholders, customers, and end-users.

•I performed qualitative and quantitative research and turned them into digestible recommendations.

•I also executed rapid prototyping, to fine-tune the little big details for a polished experience on many initiatives.

Interaction Design IxD Lead @ Toi

Oct 2017 - Aug 2019 Remote

My primary role is oriented toward early-stage, exploratory Product Design activities as well as the facilitation of design with non-designers. I also managed and lead a design team of 4-8 Product Designers. A big part of my role was allocated to participating and assisting in multiple Design Sprints. I also facilitated usability and A/B testing as well. I worked with top brands such as Verizon, Redbull Records, Sennheiser, Glide, WeWork, BBDO, and Waste Management.

Art Director, Interaction Design IxD @ Modern

Aug 2016 - Oct 2017 Remote

Art Directed multiple projects ranging from web applications to native applications. I produced and implemented company-wide design processes/documentation for client project implementation. The top clients I worked with were Jib Jab (StoryBots) and Virgin America.

Art Director, Interaction Design IxD @ Fuisz (startup)

Mar 2015 - Nov 2016 Santa Monica, CA

Managing and leading a design team of 4 User Experience Designers responsible for the following products/features for mobile and cross-platform: Short form content structures, OTT content structures, Commerce driven structures, and native second-screen companion apps. I also lead the design and vision of Fuiz's in-house SaaS authoring tool. Preformed Usability Testing and writing of user stories to facilitate user testing.

Senior Product Designer @ National Football League (NFL)

Aug 2014 - March 2015 Culver City, CA

Product design for the new Fantasy Football mobile app for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone redesign, which launched June 2014. Art direction: all iconography design, registration/sign inflow design along with the video splash screen, and all motion vetting for the app. Preformed Usability Testing and A/B testing as well. Recently consulted on a 2019 redesign launch.

Product Designer @ Yahoo

Aug 2013 - Aug 2014 Santa Monica, Ca

Worked closely with the lead Product Manager, stakeholders and a wide talented team of creatives to refine features of the Yahoo Weather product. This included (but not limited to) Defining persona's, User Journey maps, defining feature vs. user value, Idea (design), build, A/B test, learn.

Skills

UI

·Product Design

·Visual Design

·Visual competitive analysis

·Heuristic evaluations

·Design Systems

·Micro-interactions

·Motion

·Color Theory

·Typography

·Responsive Design

·PWA Design

·HTML/CSS

UX

·Interaction Design lxD

·Accessibility

·User testing

·User surveys/interviews

·UX Research

·User personas

·User Research/planning

·Journey mapping

·Wireframing

·Rapid Prototyping

·Analytics

Tools

·Figma

·FigJam

·Miro

·Sketch

·lnVision

·Adobe CC

·Abstract

·Framer JS

·Principle

·Drama

·Azure

·Qualtrics (Surveys)

·Notably (Research)

Education

Art Center College of Design (B.F.A)

2008-2011, Pasadena Ca

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