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The Guest Experience Platform.
Our mission is to help create experiences that bring joy and happiness to the world. We achieve this by building technology for leisure and attractions businesses, helping them to deliver amazing experiences for their guests.

VP of Design

MILKRUN

Industry:
eCommerce / SaaS

Delivering what you want, in minutes, starting with groceries and eventually everything else.

Head of Product Design - UI/UX

Koala

Industry:
eCommerce / SaaS

Koala:
Koala’s mission is to become the smartest way to buy high-quality furniture online. Combining customer-centric products, a world-class technology and fulfilment platform, and incredible customer service, we’ve set out to change the way people buy and enjoy furniture.

Role:
• Building and managing a successful design team across Australia, South Korea and Japan.
• Planning and providing help and support for my team members personal growth.
• Keeping up with OKRs making sure we are aligned with our business and customers goals.
• Planning and implementing a successful UX strategy across the product.
• Building and evolving our brand strategy for the company.
• Stakeholder management across the board from CEO, CMO, CTO, Product Managers, Engineers and more.
• Managing high $value external agency relationships and projects.
• Building and managing a global Design System for the entire company (Product, Marketing & more) across Australia and Japan.
• Creating and maintaining a solid Lean UX Research guide tailored for the size of our team.
• Constant experimentation and research to ensure the best possible experienece for our users.

Director of Product Design - UI/UX

Qantas

Industry:
Airline / Insurance / Wellbeing / Banking

Qantas:
Qantas Airways Limited is the flag carrier of Australia and its largest airline by fleet size, international flights and international destinations. Qantas Loyalty is an innovative data led business that drives customer and partner loyalty through our Qantas Frequent Flyer and Qantas Business Rewards programs.

Role:
• Lead Product Designer for Qantas Wellbeing App iOS & Android.
• Lead Product Designer for Qantas Health Insurance and Travel Insurance.
• Responsible for developing the product vision, strategy and roadmap as well as tactical
delivery of the solution.
• Ran user testing sessions to ensure our solutions were on point and actually solving problems.
• Designed with data and every single element that was designed was tested.
• Helped improve conversion rates on our insurance funnel.
• Was responsible for both our native apps, guided and worked with developers to implement perfect solutions for our customers.
• Ran projects from discovery to delivery (Full UX and UI and beyond).
• Collaborated directly with Product Managers, designers and developers to create products, roadmaps and shipped them.
• Helped initiating and developing Qantas’ Design System across 4 different products.
• Worked in a squads format in a very agile environment with OKRs and KPIs.
• Responsible for creating and implementing a digital product strategy, focused on UI/UX/CX, brand building, recognition, service design and growth.
• Responsible for creating and delivering a new product vision and experience.
• Improving all areas of business with design processes and methodologies, providing thought leadership, facilitating development, communication, team building and improving overall performance by bringing focus to areas where there wasn't enough experience.
• Research, wireframes, A/B Tests, prototype, visual UI design.

Lead Product Designer - UI/UX

Canva

Industry:
Design tool software

Canva:
Canva is a simplified graphic-design tool website. It uses a drag-and-drop format and provides access to photographs, vector images, graphics, and fonts. It is used by non-designers as well as professionals. The tools can be used for both web and print media design and graphics.

Role:
• Responsible for Canva Presentations and Smart Design (AI) tools.
• Helped define the experience of a smarter colour tool.
• Ran user testing sessions to ensure our solutions were on point and actually solving problems.
• Designed with data and every single element that was designed was tested.
• Created a way for user to manage and handle their presentations better and easier.
• Collaborated directly with Product Managers, designers and developers to create products, roadmaps and shipped them.
• Responsible for developing the product vision, strategy and roadmap as well as tactical delivery of the solution.
• Worked in a squads format in a very agile environment.
• Responsible for creating and implementing a digital product strategy, focused on UI/UX/CX, brand building, recognition, service design and growth.
• Responsible for creating and delivering a new product vision and experience.
• Improving all areas of business with design processes and methodologies, providing thought leadership, facilitating development, communication, team building and improving overall performance by bringing focus to areas where there wasn't enough experience.
• Work hand-in-hand with a development team, leading them through UI and UX initiatives and implementations
• Worked directly with stakeholders and product managers to ensure that designated practices, annual product and consumer targets, and KPIs are met.
• Research, wireframes, A/B Tests, prototype, visual UI design.

Zibbet

Industry:
Multichannel and inventory management platform / Marketplace / eCommerce

Zibbet:
Zibbet exists to help artists, makers and creative entrepreneurs sell more. Now you can list a product once, sell it everywhere and grow your sales faster.

Design:
• Directed and maintained the design and development of Zibbet's Design System for the entire brand;
• Responsible for developing the product vision, strategy and roadmap as well as tactical delivery of the solution;
• Trained and managed junior staff to ensure the product quality is always on point;
• Lead product designer to design, develop and maintain 4 different products;
• Responsible for creating and implementing a digital product strategy, focused on UI/UX/CX, brand building, recognition, service design and growth;
• Responsible for creating and delivering a new product vision and experience;
• Improving all areas of business with design processes and methodologies, providing thought leadership, facilitating development, communication, team building and improving overall performance by bringing focus to areas where there wasn't enough experience;
• Work hand-in-hand with a development team, leading them through UI and UX initiatives and implementations
• Worked directly with stakeholders and product managers to ensure that designated practices, annual product and consumer targets, and KPIs are met;
• Research, wireframes, A/B Tests, prototype, visual UI design;
• Participate in client usability studies;
• Developed and maintained products from 0 - launch to ensure great experience for our customers.

Development:
• Lead UI developer for the initial release of the product;
• Worked directly with the lead developer to produce production quality front-end code for our multi-channel and marketing site platforms;
• Developed a UI architecture with scalability as the main focus;
• Technologies used:
---- HTML / CSS / SASS
---- JS / ES6 / jQuery
---- Ember JS and bootstrap
---- Ruby on Rails

DesignCrowd

Industry:
Design / Crowd sourcing / Marketplace / SaaS

DesignCrowd:
DesignCrowd is a global marketplace for design services with over 2,000,000 users. You can outsource or 'crowdsource' any creative project on DesignCrowd - from logo design to website design to t-shirt design - and receive design ideas from over 550,000 designers from around the world! It's a faster, cheaper and more creative way to get the design you're looking for.

• Introduced, designed and developed DesignCrowds Design System for the entire brand;
• Responsible for developing the product vision, strategy and roadmap as well as tactical delivery of the solution;
• Established, built and led a team of off-shore (Philippines) designers, trained and managed them to produce the best quality of design standards;
• Led a team of on-shore designers and developers to ensure the product quality is always on point;
• Responsible for creating and implementing a digital product strategy, focused on UI/UX/CX, brand building, recognition and growth;
• Responsible for creating and delivering a new brand vision and strategy;
• Responsible for creating and delivering a new product vision and experience;
• Improving all areas of business with design processes and methodologies, providing thought leadership, facilitating development, communication, team building and improving overall performance by bringing focus to areas where there wasn't enough experience;
• Work hand-in-hand with a development team, leading them through UI and UX initiatives and implementations
• Worked directly with stakeholders and product managers to ensure that designated practices, annual product and consumer targets, and KPIs are met;
• Research, wireframes, A/B Tests, prototype, visual UI design;
• Participate in client usability studies;
• Developed a solid UI and interaction site re-design from scratch to improve product experience and quality, which also cut engineering cost by almost 40%.

Industry:
Design / Crowd sourcing

DesignCrowd:
DesignCrowd is a global marketplace for design services with over 2,000,000 users. You can outsource or 'crowdsource' any creative project on DesignCrowd - from logo design to website design to t-shirt design - and receive design ideas from over 500,000 designers from around the world! It's a faster, cheaper and more creative way to get the design you're looking for.

Some of our clients:
Microsoft, Spotify, Yahoo, htc, Virgin, Unicef and more...

• Introduced, designed and developed DesignCrowds Design System for the entire brand;
• Lead UI/UX Designer at DesignCrowd
• Work hand-in-hand with a development team, leading them through UI and UX initiatives and implementations
• We work within an agile software development process (scrum, daily stand-ups, 2-week sprint cycle)
• Work with product managers and stakeholders, gathering business requirements to understand product goals and client needs
• Research, wireframes, A/B Tests, prototype, visual UI design
• Participate in client usability studies
• Conduct stakeholder meetings
• Produce interactive HTML/CSS prototypes

Wilson Fletcher

Industry:
Service Design Agency

WilsonFletcher:
Is an international design company with studios in London, Sydney and Auckland. We work in close partnership with organisations around the world to bring big ideas to life and solve business-critical challenges. Our capabilities span service strategy, experience design and rapid engineering – everything needed to deliver world-leading digital products and services.

Some of our clients:
CommBank, Westpac, AmWay, Sky TV, ADC, Sydney Opera House, Woolworth, eBay, Westfield, News Corp, Telstra, TAL, TrueLocal and many more

• Work as part of the creative team to envision, create and validate user interfaces and experiences for multiple platforms (take designs from concept to production ready assets).
• Develop service experience solutions including briefs, wireframes or visual mockups, site layouts, site maps, taxonomies navigation schematics, key screens, page templates and document functional specifications.
• Visualise and map workflows and user paths across multiple platforms including creating storyboards, mockups, low and high fidelity prototypes.
• Participate in client workshops and co-creation sessions to generate, challenge and design new service concepts.
• Work closely on solutions with service and interaction designers and front-end developers.
• Create wireframes and document functional specifications where necessary.
• Design graphics, icons and other visual design elements that meet modern user interface guidelines and standards.
• Participate in best practice audits, competitive reviews, parallel landscape audits and usability studies with final analysis and documentation.
• Participate in client workshops and co-creation sessions to generate, challenge and refine new service concepts.
• Present work and findings to client and internal stakeholders.
• Maintain an awareness of current trends in technology, design and usability. 
• Desk research in support of ongoing project work.

Senior UI/UX Designer

Practera

Industry:
Education

Intersective:
We help educators, businesses and students build and manage amazing experiential learning collaborations which create new intersections, spur innovation and change lives. We work with educators and businesses to understand your needs, and help you achieve better outcomes through;

Practera by Intersective:
Practera helps educators, business and students manage and deliver better experiential education - programs like internships, placements and business competitions. It integrates project management and experiential learning tools to enhance outcomes for all participants, and administrator tools to improve assurance and reduce overheads. The Practera platform have been prototyped in consultation with over 2000 student, educator and industry participants from leading Universities and employers. Utilising the Practera platform, Universities and employers can deliver great outcomes for larger numbers of students than would otherwise be practical, at significantly lower cost.

Some of our clients:
University of Sydney, UNSW, Macquarie University, Deloitte, Ernst & Young and many more

My Responsibilities:
• Lead UI/UX Designer for Intersective's Practera application
• Front-End Development HTML/CSS/JavaScript
• Designed and developed Practera website from start to end
• Work within an agile software development process
• Work with product managers gathering business requirements
• Research, wireframes, prototype, visual UI design
• Participate in client usability studies
• Produce interactive HTML/CSS/JavaScript prototypes
• Usage of Bootstrap framework
• Light PHP development (CakePHP framework)
• Work with development team to ensure accurate design implementation
• Project Scoping, Strategy and structure defining

Lead UI/UX Designer

I’m Ari, Product UI/UX Designer/Developer with over a decade of experience. I’ve been lucky to have worked with some amazing companies from small startups to large corporations.

Design: 
• Product UI/UX Design
• Design Thinking & Problem Solving
• UX Research
• Information Architecture
• Interaction Design
• Prototyping
• Research & Analytics
• Service & Strategy Design
• Design System Development
• Product Management and Ownership
• Visual Design and Branding
• Web & Mobile App Design
• Strategy & Planning

Development:
• Agile Scrum
• HTML (JADE)
• CSS (SASS & LESS)
• JavaScript (ES6)
• React
• jQuery
• GIT Version Control
• Gulp.js
• Webpack
• Bootstrap & Foundation

Software:
• Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, inVision Studio, inVision App, Adobe Creative Suite, Axure, Flinto, Principle, Visual Studio Code

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