Alex Conner
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Alex Conner

UX DesignerUnited Kingdom
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Alex Conner

UX DesignerUnited Kingdom
About me
I’m a seasoned UX Designer driven by curiosity and motivated by the prospect of creating and delivering stunning experiences and visual design to solve real world problems. I have extensive experience leading design projects across the entire product lifecycle, from research through to pixel-perfect visuals. Along the way, I’ve been fortunate enough to work with companies such as John Lewis, Lloyds Bank, Ford and HSBC. KEY SKILLS • Empathising with users through interviews, focus groups, questionnaires to gain insights and understanding for who I am designing for. • Synthesise research insights and define project scope and a design strategy • User-centered approach, solving problems for real people and validating business requirements through user testing. • Creating key UX deliverables including user personas, user testing results and journey maps • Ideation and conceptual design experience, including brain-storming, creating scamps and sketching ideas • Translating concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences. • Advanced skills in creating pixel-perfect visual designs • The ability to manage a number of projects for multiple clients and for which I am the primary designer, taking full responsibility for the design from initial research through to delivery as well as managing and mentoring a team of creatives • Excellent written, verbal and demonstration skills including the confidence to present ideas and concepts to key stakeholders and senior members of an organisation • Close collaboration with Product Managers, Product Owners, Engineering teams and Copywriters • Keeping up to date on the latest UI/UX trends with a passion for User-Centred Design • Experience of working in an Agile work environment • High proficiency in software such as Sketch and Axure as well as creating rapid prototypes in Marvel and InVision. • Hand-coding HTML and CSS
Skills
  • Advertising
  • Art Direction
  • Mobile
  • Applications
  • Websites
  • Banner Ad
  • CSS
  • Design
  • Html
  • Interface Design
  • Wordpress
  • Interactive Design
  • Web Interface Design
  • Web Page Design
  • Photoshop
Education
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    MastersKingston University
    Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom