Designer Graphic

RYAN MAHER

UI & VISUAL DESIGNER

Seattle, WA

Creating delightfully usable experiences for the better part of a decade, in tandem with brands including Chevrolet; Cadillac; O, The Oprah Magazine; BBC Earth and Holland America Line. PORTFOLIO ryanmaher.design

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Experience

HOLLAND AMERICA LINE

Visual Designer

Apr. 2017 - May. 2020

• Project lead on large, long-term project involving multiple teams and hundreds of contributors. Built a large library of branded images, generating tens of thousands of purchases.

• Established guidelines for creative and technical direction to streamline and coordinate diverse team effort, including standards for photography, layout, and file templates & taxonomy.

• Tracked data and metrics to produce regular updates for stakeholders, quantifying progress, projecting completion dates, determining action items, and successfully coordinating between teams.

• Created unified brand experience by curating thousands of images and photo-editing to provide uniformly color-accurate, blemish-free, expressive photography.

CDK GLOBAL

UI Designer

Dec. 2015 - Mar. 2017

• Increased user engagement with holistic web

solutions formed within the architecture of

major automotive brands.

• Improved internal team systems including coding

standards and training guidelines.

FREELANCE

UI & Visual Designer

Jun. 2013 - Present

• Produced iterated storyboards and

generated character designs for

children’s book; organized page-by-page flow

of visual narrative by working collaboratively

with author.

• Efficiently delivered wireframes, style tiles,

mock-ups, code and visual assets from

conception to finished product for clients.

• Boosted web traffic through in-depth usability

testing and branding research.

Education

SEATTLE CENTRAL

CREATIVE ACADEMY

Graphic Design

Fall 2011 - Spring 2013

UNIVERSITY OF

WASHINGTON

B.A. Philosophy

Fall 2007 - Spring 2009

BELLEVUE

COLLEGE

A.A.

Fall 2005 - Spring 2007

Skills

APPLICATIONS

• Photoshop

• Illustrator

• InDesign

• Sketch

• Principle

• OmniGraffle

PROCESS

• User flows

• Wireframes

• Style tiles

• Mood boards

• Mock-ups

CODE

• HTML

• CSS

• Sass

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