Jess Carver
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Jess Carver

Senior UX DesignerBristol, United Kingdom
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Jess Carver
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Jess Carver

Senior UX DesignerBristol, United Kingdom
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    Senior UX DesignerZone
    Bristol, United KingdomFull Time
    At Zone, I work within agile multidisciplinary teams to build product and services for our clients, such as Electrolux, Aviva, Genomics England (NHS), PRS for Music, and the UK Government I'm passionate about bringing lean principals to these teams, so that we can build great experiences for their users. This includes, but is not limited to, guerrilla testing new features, creating pen portraits, and sketching ideas in co-creation workshops.
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    UX DesignerProphecy Unlimited
     - Bristol, United KingdomFull Time
    Playing a key role in the Creative Department and finding ways to bring together the needs of client’s businesses and their users to create solutions to a wide range of problems. Having worked across a number of challenges, from optimising existing solutions, to significant work across the touch points of a client’s cross-channel marketing platform. This has included, but is not limited to: - Collaborative approach to UX design and research, feeding into the development of the overall process. - Making connections across the diverse agency team and being a strong advocate of user-centred design. - Running workshops and interactive sessions to get the most out of clients, colleagues and users. - Consistently delivering a high standard of UX design across a range of channels and deliverables. - Working with people in a wide range of roles including planners, visual designers, developers, data analysts, art directors, writers, social media creatives.
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Skills
  • Digital Design
  • Web Design
  • UX Design
  • Interaction Design
  • Sketch
  • Prototyping
  • Product Design
  • User Experience
  • User Testing
  • Wireframing
  • Service Design
  • Design Strategy
  • Design Research
Education
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    MDes Experience DesignSamsung Art and Design Institute
     - Seoul, South Korea
    Thesis completed in collaboration with Product Design & Research Centre (PDR - http://pdronline.co.uk/) to develop four kitchen product design opportunities by analysing and comparing the South Korean and UK kitchen markets. This involved conducting multiple quantitative and qualitative studies in both countries, then analysing the data to derive new opportunities for innovation. Completed this course in August 2014 with semester 1 at Cardiff Metropolitan University and semester 2 and 3 at Samsung Art and Design Institute. Receiving full postgraduate scholarship from both institutions.
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    First Class Bachelor of Arts, Product DesignCardiff School of Art & Design
     - Cardiff, United Kingdom
    Designed a blood transfusion device for paediatric patients & an indoor rabbit play system; both with a heavy emphasis on deriving commercially viable innovation through contextual probes and ethnographic research with a variety of target users. Also wrote a dissertation to investigate the sustainability of single use medical devices with a case study into laryngoscopes.
Awards
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    Full Scholarship for Postgraduate StudySamsung Art and Design Institute
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    Green Products Through InnovationHowest University College West Flanders in Kortrijk, Belgium.
    Took part in an intensive design program, which involved working with many other university students from around the world. My group won in our category for our live modular bus stop design to improve communication to De Lijn bus passengers.
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