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About Me

I am a UX designer in Cincinnati, OH. I have a passion for design and development and bringing those two together. Let’s chat sometime soon!

ABOUT

With a background in graphic design, I found a passion for learning how people think and how they use products. This combination made for a love of UX and a drive to become a skilled UX designer. With experience in branding and layout, UX has been a seamless transition and has allowed me to create and develop websites from ideation to implementation.

Personal Interests: Skiing, Cooking, anything that is generally interesting to think about.

EXPERIENCE

UX Designer | 2022 - 2023McGraw Hill
Worked with various teams of developers to create reusable components and migrate from bootstrap 3 to bootstrap 5. Created reusable component libraries with agile themes with the ability to set up new themes quickly. Deliverable include: Mockups, Design breakdowns, and Design Systems

Lead UX/UI Designer | 2021 - 2022Benchmark ESG
Using my expertise in UX/UI to increase awareness and knowledge of user-centered design and design thinking throughout the development process. I develop ideas into prototypes for both testing and development to save time and effort while minimizing pain points for users before the development stage. Deliverables include User Stories/Flow, Site Maps, Mockups, and Prototypes.

Contract UI/UX | 2019 - CurrentWith my experience as a layout designer I successfully redesigned multiple websites and have consulted on layouts of others. Deliverables included wireframes and prototypes.

Contract Graphic Designer | 2019 - 2020Sharecare Inc.
Independently completed 25+ designs within a 1.5-month period. Manage 10+ design projects weekly in under 15 hours. Learned the kanban method in order to increase efficiency of daily tasks.

Contract Graphic Designer | 2018 - 2020Christ's Church Mason
Applied exemplary project coordination and time management skills to complete 270+ design projects within 18 months. Collaborated cross-functionally with various departments and communicated timelines and design progress with stakeholders.

SKILLS

SkillsDesign Systems
Visual Design
UX/UI Design
Accessibility
User Testing
Layout Design
Branding
User-centered Design
Quick Learner
Coachable

Tools
Benchmark ESG
Figma
Invision
Adobe Creative Suite
Webflow
Visual Studio Code
Sketch
GitHub

EDUCATION

Thinkful full immersion UI/UX course - Specialization in Front-end

CURRENTLY LEARNING

HTML
CSS
JavaScript

Bootstrap
React
Webflow

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Cincinnati, OH | bdgarwood17@gmail.com