Social Media Designer

Saba Nikrahi

UX/Interaction Designer

(US Green Card Holder)

Experience

Summary

A passionate, creative designer that incorporates research in design to create effective, intuitive and user based designs. Enjoys creating prototypes and for bringing meaningful experiences to people. Two Cosmetic Brands Marketing: Babaria and Yunsey

Conducted user studies and testings

Designed interfaces for the website, cosmetic packaging design, and the digital interfaces

E-commerce: Worked with the website developers and analyzed the ratings to enhance the selling rates

Changed/adapted tabs and features

Marketing Graphic

Designer

EYEKISH (Eyesayan Kish)

(Sep 2008 - Dec 2013)

Contact Information

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www.linkedin.com/in/saba-nikrahi-a11251127/

sabanikrahi.myportfolio.com

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Long Beach, CA

CIE Website: Lead and mentored the design team for all the stages of the design

Ideations and iterations: Brainstorming sessions, tab placements, features Site-mapping: Wireframes, flowcharts, Journey maps Mockups - prototyping: Paper and interactive prototyping Testing and evaluations: AB testing and Heuristic evaluations SandBox Project (2017-18): Lead designer for the sandbox (virtual space for a more productive interaction between freshmen and the teachers) Interface Design: Designed various interfaces for the intended developers Marketing: Part of the marketing team for expanding the CIE team in social media

UX/UI Designer/

Marketing Team

Center for Instructional

Excellence

(Sep 2016 - Dec 2019)

Steam Oven Project: Lead UX Designer for the interaction of the new steam oven:

Conducted thorough research, presented the main issues, designed targeted personas, storyboards, journey maps, flow charts, different modes, ideations, and iterations. Held many rounds of usability testings, considered accessibility issues (WCAG) and delivered an interactive prototype for the final design

UX Designer

Newell Brands

(April 2018 - Sep 2018)

Morgan Center Website: Teamed up with the marketing team for the modification of the website and mentored the design team: Three round of brainstorming sessions

Conducted user research, iterations, experience maps, and testing sessions

UI/UX Designer

Burton D. Morgan Center

for Entrepreneurship

(Jan 2014 - Aug 2016)

Skills

Adobes: Adobe creative suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects ) Prototyping: Axure, invision, Sketch, Figma, Balsamiq, XD, Agile scrum Narrowing the journey maps, storyboardings, wireframing and brainstorming sessions along with the iterated ideas in prototyping tools

Research Design: User research, User strategy, Competitive analysis, Wireframing, Usability/AB testing, Heuristic evaluation, User journeys, Graphic design, Sketching, Task flows, User interface design, WCAG consideration, Interaction Design, Personas, Experience maps, Mental models, Task flows, Scenarios, Interview, Surveys, Journey maps,

Coding: HTML, CSS

Education

Master’s Degree, Interaction/UX Design, Purdue University, (Sep 2016 - May 2019) Master’s Degree, Psychology-Linguistics, Alzahra University, (Sep 2008 - Dec 2011) Bachelors Degree, Arts, Razi University, (Sep 2004 - June 2008)

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