Leban Hyde
User Experience & Brand Designer
Kansas City, MO, USAAll design should reach for the highest possible standard. Good design should be accessible to all. It should be equally conscious of form and function without sacrificing one for the other. Most of all, it should be what the client has asked for.
Work Experience
Alchemy UX + Branding
Design Principal
- Client relations
- Art direction
- Branding & Identity
- User experience
- User interface
- Web development
- Project management
- Art direction
- Branding & Identity
- User experience
- User interface
- Web development
- Project management
January 2009
- Present
Missouri, United States
National Seminars Training
User Interface & Experience Design Lead
USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE DESIGN LEAD (July 2014 – Present)
- Planning
-- UX consultation during planning and strategy phase
- Research
-- Stakeholder interviews
-- Internal (customer-facing) interviews
-- Competitive analysis
-- Comparative analysis
-- Persona & scenario creation
-- Journey mapping
- Design
-- Wireframes
-- Prototypes; static & interactive
- Development
-- UX support for resolving unforeseen issues during development phase
- Testing
-- Usability testing during various stages of design & development
INTERACTIVE DESIGN LEAD (July 2011 – July 2014)
- Usability and experience consultation during the writing of specifications
- Researching and documentation
- Mapping user flows
- Wireframing and prototyping interface
- Oversee the front-end design/development (HTML/CSS) of mystar12.comaintenance
- Supporting internal site requests
- Planning
-- UX consultation during planning and strategy phase
- Research
-- Stakeholder interviews
-- Internal (customer-facing) interviews
-- Competitive analysis
-- Comparative analysis
-- Persona & scenario creation
-- Journey mapping
- Design
-- Wireframes
-- Prototypes; static & interactive
- Development
-- UX support for resolving unforeseen issues during development phase
- Testing
-- Usability testing during various stages of design & development
INTERACTIVE DESIGN LEAD (July 2011 – July 2014)
- Usability and experience consultation during the writing of specifications
- Researching and documentation
- Mapping user flows
- Wireframing and prototyping interface
- Oversee the front-end design/development (HTML/CSS) of mystar12.comaintenance
- Supporting internal site requests
July 2011
- December 2014
Kansas, United States
Vibe Communications
Freelance Designer
- Art direction
- Branding & Identity
- User experience
- User interface
- Web development
- Branding & Identity
- User experience
- User interface
- Web development
August 2009
-
Independence, Missouri, United States
MayerMedia Design Studio
User Interface Designer
- Client relations
- Art direction
- Branding & Identity
- User experience
- User interface
- Web development (minor)
- Project management
- Art direction
- Branding & Identity
- User experience
- User interface
- Web development (minor)
- Project management
June 2010
- December 2010
Liberty, Missouri, United States
Reality Media
Graphic Design & Branding Specialist
- Client relations
- Art direction
- Branding & Identity
- User experience
- User interface
- Web development
- Project management
- Art direction
- Branding & Identity
- User experience
- User interface
- Web development
- Project management
February 2008
- May 2009
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Shawnee Mission Medical Center
Graphic Intern
- Branding & Identity
-- Update legacy collateral
-- Produce new collateral
-- Program identity development
- Some clerical.
-- Update legacy collateral
-- Produce new collateral
-- Program identity development
- Some clerical.
January 2008
- June 2008
Shawnee, Kansas, United States
Education
Missouri State University
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
Emphasis in Illustration with a Personalized Minor in Spanish.
September 2000
- May 2003
Springfield, Missouri, United States
Penn Valley Community College
Associate of Arts in General Education
General Education before transferring to a four-year university. Went part-time while working full-time.
September 1996
- August 2000
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Languages
English (Native),
Spanish (Fluent),
Skills
Adobe Creative Suite,
Agile,
Art Directing,
Branding,
Corporate Identity,
HTML / CSS,
Interaction Design,
Responsive Web Design,
SMACSS,
User Experience Design,
User Interface Design,
Visual Design,