Valerie Poort

Designer

Wellington, New Zealand
Hey, I’m Valerie! I’m a designer who finds people fascinating. I believe user-centric design is invaluable, and love the insights. I aspire to be in environments that change peoples lives positively — through transformative experiences, inspirational beautiful things, projects for public good, or creativity that entertains and engages attention. I’m slightly obsessed with anything travel related, and love sharing Wellington on a good day with great people.

Work Experience

Department Of Internal Affairs

Service Designer

July 2018 - Wellington, New Zealand

Ministry Of Justice

Advisor (Design)

August 2017 - July 2018 New Zealand

Department Of Internal Affairs

Graduate Advisor (Design)

Working within the Business Design and Innovation team to deliver change initiatives, including those part of Result 10 of the government wide Better Public Services. This initiative, led by DIA, will mean that 70% of New Zealanders transactions with government will be digital by mid-2017. My role is to provide Service Design and UX Design support and advice on various projects.
August 2016 - August 2017 New Zealand

Department Of Internal Affairs

Design Intern

May 2016 - August 2016 New Zealand

Open Lab NZ

Junior Designer

November 2014 - Present Wellington, New Zealand

New Zealand Post

Customer Experience Intern

A third year Massey University paper involving the Customer Experience team at New Zealand Post led to a summer internship. I worked on many projects with collaboratively with members of the team, including:
- brand development for a new internal programme
- applying problem solving / design thinking skills to a range of problems which face New Zealand Post, now and in the future
- creating reports which visually communicated as much information as possible
- quickly outputting graphics in a range of formats, whenever needed
- rapid prototyping of new elements for physical stores, which would improve the customer experience
November 2014 - February 2015 Wellington, New Zealand

Education

Massey University

Bachelor of Design

Majoring in Visual Communication Design, with an interest in advertising communications, service and experience design, and typography.
February 2012 - Present Wellington, New Zealand

Languages

Dutch (Native),
English (Fluent),

Awards

Massey University

Massey University Vice Chancellor's High Achiever Scholarship (Academic)

2011

Massey University

Massey University Vice Chancellor's High Achiever Scholarship (Art)

2011

Rangiora High School

Dux of the School at Graduation

2011

NZQA

Technology Scholarship

2011

Skills

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Advertising, Art Direction, Branding, Conceptual Thinking, Copywriting, Creative Strategy, Creative Thinking, Experience Design, HTML / CSS, Marketing Communications, Marketing Strategy, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Rapid Ideation, Service Design, Typography,