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Angela Schill

UX RESEARCH AND DESIGN / USER INTERFACE DESIGN

Santa Monica, CA, USA
3104415639 be.net/angelaschill
I bring over 15 years of hands-on print design, creative direction and project management experience to User Experience Research/Design and Interface Design. As a consultant, I manage multiple deadlines, proposals and budgets, inspire creatives and vendors, and work directly with founders, small business owners and C-level clients. It's awesome to work in the fields of User Experience and User Interface as they are fascinating, challenging, still evolving and endlessly valuable.

Work Experience

Zenvironment

UI Designer / Developer

Designing and developing a parallax scrolling site for my client. SEE WIP section.
August 2014 - Present Santa Monica, California, United States

Arizona Water Company

Information Architect / UI Designer / Developer

(July 2014 - project in progress)
Website redesign. 30-40 pages.
IA: Content requirements, content inventory, sitemaps, taxonomy, navigation plan.
UI: Style guide, interface design and development.
2014 - Santa Monica, California, United States

Alternavision Films Inc.

UI Designer / Developer

New website design and development, logo design. Four-page website with rollover effects and return buttons added to two external sites.
2014 - Santa Monica, California, United States

Matt Nuss UX Architect

UX Researcher

Expert Review of web builder websites (Wix, SquareSpace, Weebly, Virb, Web.com). Deliverables included a comparison grid on marketing/user experience and summary report.
2014 - Santa Monica, California, United States

Can't Name It Yet

UX Designer

Early stage startup. UX design for alpha release of a mobile app. Worked directly with the founder, using Lean UX principles. Product concepting, page sketches, wireframes, prototype, competitive market survey.
2014 - Present Santa Monica, California, United States

Yopisode

UX Researcher / UI Designer / Marketing Writer

Yopisode — The Social Network for TV Addicts (2014).
Early stage startup. Worked directly with founder on product concept and messaging, gamification and monetization strategies, team retention. UX Research: Personas, user task models, collaboration with UI designer on sitemap, wireframes. UI Design: Created branding assets for social pages. Marketing writing/editing: Tumbr blog and social pages.
2014 - Present Santa Monica, California, United States

HLC, Inc.

UX Reviewer

Usability review and recommendations for existing 24-page site. Recommendations included improving CTA visibility, emphasizing products, facilitating page-to-page travel, replacing non-informative links with images, suggestions to improve site stickiness.
2013 - Los Angeles, California, United States

Arizona Water Company

UX Research / UX Designer

Website redesign for azwater.com. UX Research: Stakeholder interviews, contextual research, user interviews, user survey, competitive market survey. UX Design: Page sketches, wireframes, prototype.
September 2013 - Present Los Angeles, California, United States

Arrow Sign Company

UI Designer / Developer / Product Illustrator

Created new website design plus all assets and product illustrations, front end development.
2013 - Los Angeles, California, United States

AdRep LLC

UI Designer / Developer / Copywriter

Website design and development, logo, tagline, branding assets, marketing writing. 7-page capabilities site.
2012 - Los Angeles, California, United States

Concord High School

UI Designer / Developer

Website design and development, image assets, copywriting.
2010 - Los Angeles, California, United States

ASTD-LA

UI Designer

Web banners and elements. Website assets.
2008 - 2010 Los Angeles, California, United States

Enlink Geoenergy

UI Designer / Developer

9-page website design and development, logo design.
2008 - Los Angeles, California, United States

Westcoast Tire & Service

UI Designer / Developer

7-page website design and development for a training video product, image assets, copywriting.
2008 - Los Angeles, California, United States

ASTD-LA

Print Designer / Ad Hoc Editor

Monthly newsletter design, production, editing, project management.
1995 - 2012 Los Angeles, California, United States

Arrow Sign Company

Print Designer

Product vector illustrations, brochure and display advertising design.
1995 - 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

Westcoast Tire & Service

Print Designer / Marketing Writer

Identity, branding, display and direct mail advertising, marketing, POP materials.
1990 - 2013 Los Angeles, California, United States

Concord High School

Print Designer / Marketing Writer

Logo, branding, newsletter, display and direct mail advertising, PR materials.
1990 - 2010 Los Angeles, California, United States

NASM

Print Designer

Textbook design, art production. (10 textbooks 150-800 pages).
2003 - 2004 Los Angeles, California, United States

Gillette Company

Print Designer

Bi-lingual newsletter design (7 issues). Art direction, project management (photographers, translators, copywriters, printers).
2000 - 2001 Los Angeles, California, United States

Cathay Bancorp

Print Designer

Annual report design, art production, financial typography (7 reports). Consumer brochures, direct mail materials.
Los Angeles, California, United States

Education

Self Study

Front End Development/UX/UI

Codecademy, Nielsen/Norman and a HUGE pile of related books on UX, UI, Web Dev to read! Learning goes on forever.
Present Santa Monica, California, United States

General Assembly

UX Design

2013 Santa Monica, California, United States

UCLA Extension

Computer Graphics Certificate

Curriculum included: Graphic Design, Identity Design, 2D and 3D Graphics, 3D modeling, Paint Programs, Motion Graphics, Photoshop, Illustrator, Art Studio.
March 1986 - March 1988 Los Angeles, California, United States

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, All Around Awesomeness, Art Direction, Asset Creation, Axure, Competitive Market Survey, Content Inventory, Contextual Research, Controlled Vocabulary, Copywriting, Corel Draw, CSS3, Dreamweaver 6, Editing, Expert Review, Front End Development, Ftp, Graphic Design, HTML5, Image Editing, Image Retouching, Information Architecture, Microsoft Office, Mobile Design, Mobile UI, Photography, Print Design, Product Illustration, Project Management, Prototyping, Quark Xpress, Responsive Design, Search / Error Design, Site And Content Requirements, Sitemaps/Taxonomy/Navigation, Sketching, Social Marketing, Style Guides, Typography, UI Design , Usability Testing, User Interviews/Surveys, User Personas, User Task And Engagement, UX Design, UX Research, UX Review, Wireframes,