Available Now Currently open to full time or part time/contract opportunities.
Email kat@valliantcreations.com
Address
Albuquerque Area, New Mexico
USA
I enjoy many things UX, but games are my jam! Casual, mobile, tabletop, MMO, FPS, and many more~
I love to collaborate with stakeholders (Artists, Game Designers, Producers, Product Managers, Engineers, Executives, User Researchers, other UI/UX folks, QA, etc.) to craft delightful user experiences for games.
I love working as either a lead or as an individual contributor (working alone or as part of a wider UI/UX team) to provide UI/UX design and user research for a team.
In my time as a Lead/Director have overseen teams of up to 5 Junior and Mid-level Designers, both in-person and remotely, each working on different projects... so I'm used to juggling when the occasion calls for it.
Whenever possible I am keenly interested in using user feedback and testing to improve and vet designs/features.
My interests are: art of all kinds, gaming, sci-fi/fantasy books, television, movies, and well-executed plots (cheesy movies are also a vice, no lie.)
Specialties
UI/UX Design
UI Art
Interaction Design
2D Art
Illustration
User Research
Skills
Figma
Protopie
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Flash
Adobe XD
Asana
Jira
Unity
XCode
Sketch
Principle
InVision
Zeplin
Experience
Haiku Inc.
Lead UI/UX Director (+ a some Project & Product Management)
Albuquerque, NM · November 2022 – November 2023
As the Lead Games UI/UX Design Lead & Researcher (+ some Project and Product Management), my responsibilities included:
• Supervising a 3-person design team across 3 different time zones.
• Conducting user interviews with Educators, Administrators, Recruiters, and Learners to gather feedback in order to continuously improve web and app experiences as well as determine future products and feature designs.
• Collaborating with the engineering team to establish priorities and contribute to the development roadmap for products and features.
• Communicating design decisions, rationale, and direction through presentations and other documentation.
• Creating and iterating on flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
• Gathering and applying feedback from stakeholders.
• Serving as a subject matter expert for user experience design best practices.
• Possessing a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience, along with a basic understanding of system integ
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Lead UI/UX Designer
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