Ryan DeLuca
UX | UI Design
Portland, OR, USA10 years of professional experience in user experience and user interface design, working with industry-leading companies like Nike, Oracle, WebMD, TMobile, AT&T and Samsung. I have a solid track record of bringing best in class, digital experiences to market for desktop, mobile, and wearable devices.
Work Experience
Nike (USA)
Senior User Experience Designer | Online Story Telling/CCOE
• Created a global showroom touchscreen template, now being used by global teams, that saves time and makes it easier for reps to load their content and present to retailers
• Lead white boarding and user journey sessions with stakeholders, to develop vision and drive alignment for an upcoming product
• Conduct competitive analyses to inform design direction on various projects
• Create clickable prototypes in order to test designs with users
June 2017
- December 2017
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Oracle
UX | UI Designer
• Phone and tablet application UX/UI design
• Apple Watch application UX/UI design
• Apple Watch application UX/UI design
June 2014
-
Oregon, United States
WebMD Health Services
Mobile UX | UI Designer
• Produce innovative, thoughtful, mobile product solutions for clients
• Lead white boarding sessions with cross-disciplinary teams to envision fresh new product ideas
• Experiment with new tools and techniques to improve workflow and quality
• Collaborate with development team to bring great design to life by tackling the technical challenges
• Execute on creative strategy as part of a team to create compelling design
• Construct detailed wireframe documents to map the user experience
• Craft compelling, pixel perfect visuals to be used in final design and as development assets
• Build prototype mock-ups to test user flows
• Lead white boarding sessions with cross-disciplinary teams to envision fresh new product ideas
• Experiment with new tools and techniques to improve workflow and quality
• Collaborate with development team to bring great design to life by tackling the technical challenges
• Execute on creative strategy as part of a team to create compelling design
• Construct detailed wireframe documents to map the user experience
• Craft compelling, pixel perfect visuals to be used in final design and as development assets
• Build prototype mock-ups to test user flows
April 2013
- Present
Portland, Oregon, United States
UTi Worldwide, Inc.
Web UX | UI Designer
• Translate requirements into concepts and elegant user experience design
• Create interaction models, user task flows, screen designs to optimize the user experience
• Develop and maintain wireframes, story boards and mockups that communicate design ideas
• Think creatively to design web based product, then make continuous improvements as appropriate
• Build prototypes to demonstrate and test recommendations
• Voice of the user
• Create interaction models, user task flows, screen designs to optimize the user experience
• Develop and maintain wireframes, story boards and mockups that communicate design ideas
• Think creatively to design web based product, then make continuous improvements as appropriate
• Build prototypes to demonstrate and test recommendations
• Voice of the user
February 2013
- April 2013
Portland, Oregon, United States
Citizen, Inc.
UX | UI Designer
• Created user-centric tablet, phone and desktop UI and UX for Android, iOS, and Windows
• Identified market opportunities by understanding the existing product landscape and ecosystems
• Conducted detailed competitive UX/UI evaluation, summarized and presented findings visually
• Interfaced with and presented work to clients
• Created UX wire frames as application blueprints to refine the user experience
• Designed and produced visual UI assets in Photoshop
• Observed and recorded user testing in remote labs to improve user experience
• Results were best-in-class digital experiences for Intel, AT&T, T-Mobile, Samsung et al
• Identified market opportunities by understanding the existing product landscape and ecosystems
• Conducted detailed competitive UX/UI evaluation, summarized and presented findings visually
• Interfaced with and presented work to clients
• Created UX wire frames as application blueprints to refine the user experience
• Designed and produced visual UI assets in Photoshop
• Observed and recorded user testing in remote labs to improve user experience
• Results were best-in-class digital experiences for Intel, AT&T, T-Mobile, Samsung et al
November 2010
- January 2013
Portland, Oregon, United States
Personal Project
Industrial Design | Research
- Fielded behavioral and market research to inform the design process and understand user needs
- Created a detailed task analysis to examine pain-points in the user story
- Examined existing products and patents through comparative evaluation
- Summarized research findings into a detailed 80pg book that would inform the design process
- Networked and established relationships in local firefighter communities to identify key informants
- End result was a prototype, nearly field-test ready, which generated a high level of enthusiasm amongst users
- Was awarded the honor of presenting this design at the 2010 IDSA Northwest Regional Conference
- Created a detailed task analysis to examine pain-points in the user story
- Examined existing products and patents through comparative evaluation
- Summarized research findings into a detailed 80pg book that would inform the design process
- Networked and established relationships in local firefighter communities to identify key informants
- End result was a prototype, nearly field-test ready, which generated a high level of enthusiasm amongst users
- Was awarded the honor of presenting this design at the 2010 IDSA Northwest Regional Conference
June 2009
- November 2010
Portland, Oregon, United States
StatKey
Design Intern
- Investigated existing products and created presentation of competitive product evaluation
- Crafted surveys, conducted interviews, and accessed forums to gain insight into a niche market
- Used critical thinking to determine demand for a proposed product
- Employed user-knowledge, graphic and industrial design skills to identify, create and deliver
two physical products that are in production and available to consumers globally
- Crafted surveys, conducted interviews, and accessed forums to gain insight into a niche market
- Used critical thinking to determine demand for a proposed product
- Employed user-knowledge, graphic and industrial design skills to identify, create and deliver
two physical products that are in production and available to consumers globally
June 2009
- September 2009
Portland, Oregon, United States
Motoczysz
Industrial Design Intern
- Collaborated in envisioning a technologically distinct, cutting edge alternative-fuel source vehicle
- Employed sketching and marker rendering to iterate vehicle styling
- Used secondary research skills to help define the aesthetic style and human factors details
- Employed sketching and marker rendering to iterate vehicle styling
- Used secondary research skills to help define the aesthetic style and human factors details
July 2009
- September 2009
Portland, Oregon, United States
Languages
Mandarin (Beginner),
Spanish (Beginner),
Greek (Beginner),
Skills
Adobe Photoshop,
IRise,
Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe Indesign,