CORE COMPETENCIES
WORK HISTORY
Senior UX Designer, 01/2021 - Current
IDIN Consulting Group, San Francisco, CA
Dallas TX
adz33b@r.postjobfree.com
PORTFOLIO
www.mahsamirchenari.com
EDUCATION
Master of Arts, Interaction & UI/UX
Design
Academy of Art University - San
Francisco, CA
Bachelor of Arts, Graphic Design
University of Applied Science And
Technology - Tehran, Iran
SOFTWARE
Prototyping and Wireframing:
Figma, InVision
Adobe Creative Suite: XD,
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign,
After Effects, Premiere Pro
Computer Platforms: MAC, PC
Web Programming: HTML5, CSS3,
JavaScript, JQuery, Sublime Text
Microsoft Office Suite: Excel, Word,
PowerPoint, Outlook
COURSES
Front-End and Back-End
Development
User Experience Design
Motion Graphics and Video
Visual Design & Typography
Human-Computer Interaction for
UX/UI Design
Advanced Topics in Motion Graphics
User Experience: Human-Centered
Design
Product Design
Graphic Design
Typography and Layout Design
MAHSA
MIRCHENARI, MA
Navigating UX/UI Excellence: From Synthesis to Empowerment: Synthesize UI specifications through research and standards, considering business goals and user needs. Enhance usability approaches, advocate for user-centered design, and lead UX/UI from inception to product completion. Create empowering designs using storyboards and wireframes based on user insights, innovating interactive elements. Ensure on-brand, modern designs, driving digital product evolution informed by research. Develop user experiences across fidelity levels, crafting prototypes, maps, mockups, and flows for intuitive interfaces and adapting layouts based on user feedback.
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Cross-Functional Collaboration for User-Centered Interface Design and Advocacy: Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, product, sales, development, operations, business analysts, project managers, and IT teams to gather and comprehend business requirements, align usability tasks with project parameters, and create user-centered, efficient, and cohesive interfaces that meet high standards; engage in design reviews to achieve agreement and endorsement from stakeholders; team up with UI Designers to advocate for and showcase designs to diverse stakeholders.
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Effective Communication, Creative Problem-Solving, and User- Centered Leadership: Strong communication, proactive mindset, and meticulous attention to detail. Innovate and simplify complex requirements into intuitive designs. Clearly communicate design vision, strategy, and progress, leveraging prototypes and specifications. Expertly apply user research for impactful insights. Lead discovery sessions to address significant user issues. Guide teams in adhering to user-centered design principles.
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Excelling in High-Pressure Environments: Meeting Deadlines and Resolving UX Challenges: Thrive in high-pressure, multi-project environments, consistently meeting tight deadlines. Demonstrate exceptional investigative and problem-solving abilities, adept at identifying and resolving UX issues, including responsiveness.
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Design and deliver conceptual diagrams, personas, user flows, user stories, user journey maps, wireframes, comps, mockups, task diagrams, sitemaps, and prototypes using an iterative human- centered design process for new and existing digital product
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Senior Graphic Designer, 07/2017 - 01/2021
IDIN Consulting Group, San Francisco, CA
Branding and Identity Design
Digital Illustration
Package Design
Web Design
HTML/CSS Coding
User Interface (UI) Design
Web Animation
Mobile App Design
SKILLS
UX/UI Design
Graphic Design
Branding Strategy
User Research & Strategy
Visual Design
Interface Design
Web Development
Interaction Design
Information Architecture
Wireframing
Prototyping
Usability Testing
Personas
User Flow and Journeys
Product Design
Wire-Framing
Mobile Design
Motion Graphics
portfolio in a wide range of devices and interfaces (web, app, chat, packaging).
Competitive UX benchmarking, generative wireframing to determine context hierarchy based on user workflow, compelling visual storyboards, developing mid to high-fidelity UX prototypes for physical and digital assets, conducting user testing, and partnering to generate product designs.
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Use business requirements to develop case studies and high-level requirements that translate needs into technology solutions.
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Partner with cross-functional colleagues in product management, marketing, sales, customer success, and technology to hypothesize, test, and measure customer growth and success of projects, translate user needs into physical and digital assets built upon best-in-class brand guidelines to design and prepare user test studies that gather and refine design interactions.
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Conduct usability testing activities to gather feedback and validate concepts using various customer-driven methods with a passion for user-centered design, rapidly test and iterate on designs using agile development processes to synthesize complex use cases and translate them into clear and simple visualizations.
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Demonstrated history of acquiring user data, conducting usability studies, performing user research, and creating personas and journey maps.
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Collaborate closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to align design solutions with business goals.
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Responsible for branding, logo development, graphic design, post- production, and large format printing and collaborated closely with other creatives and stakeholders at every level to ensure the brand was consistent across all channels and remained up-to-date on design and brand trends in the marketplace.
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Executed marketing projects from conception to production, including marketing campaigns, graphic layouts, print solutions, digital and print ads, social campaigns, websites, brochures, logo design, social media, web graphics, banners, and flyers while helping cut costs by an average of 12%.
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Developed ideas independently and participated in brainstorming and creative concepts in collaboration with cross-functional teams to manage multiple projects with overlapping deadlines from concept to delivery, communicating with all stakeholders to keep projects on schedule in a fast-paced environment under tight deadlines.
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Self-driven, detail-oriented, and hands-on team player with a diverse, modern portfolio of completed design projects that display a superior understanding of typography, aesthetics, colors, layouts, imagery, and graphic elements.
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Applied in-depth knowledge of graphic design, styles, logo illustration, typographic manipulation, and layout techniques to produce and oversee digital and creative print solutions, online design, and printing and finishing products, reducing labor and materials costs by 10%.
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