Ashley Murray

UX Designer

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
A human-centred designer with a focus in UX and motion design.

Work Experience

Fresh Air Educators

Interaction and UX Designer

I plan and build interactive courses for safety training in areas such as boating and hunting licenses; provide web and print production, and illustration as a member of the graphic design team; and, create extensive information architecture diagrams and user journeys to develop new products for our parent company's product department.
October 2017 - Present Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

You.iTV

Interaction Design Intern

Designed, created, and tested an app from scratch using the You.i Engine One. Worked primarily on IxD, but also ViD and MoT throughout the project.
March 2017 - April 2017 Ontario, Canada

Freelance

Graphic Designer

Help a number of clients, such as Algonquin College, small businesses, and a research team from the University of Alberta, in developing their personal brand, website design and solution making.
September 2014 - Present Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Algonquin College

Graphic Designer

Designed various projects for Algonquin College’s Applied Research and Innovation. One of which was to design the interface for an app on a contracted project with Applied Research and Innovation at Algonquin College. The app was a container that holds data about the patient and their smart teeth cleaning device that the dentist could access in a database.
September 2016 - January 2017 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Algonquin College

UX Research Facilitator

As Algonquin College worked to implement Workday as an enterprise solution to upgrade and modernize their HR management system, I was hired as a usability test facilitator. In this project, I worked with another facilitator under the supervision of a professor and project manager, to research and learn the business processes and features of Workday, write scripts based on features to test, find participants and observers, facilitate usability tests using the scripts, record the test sessions, analyze the results, provide recommendations by comparing the results against heuristic and expert evaluations, write a formal report documenting the findings and recommendations, as well as a presentation delivered to the Algonquin College team, and provide them with all the documentation and research in a complete handoff package.
May 2016 - August 2016 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Algonquin College

Graphic Design Teaching Assistant & Peer Tutor

Offered one–on–one assistance to students needing extra help in graphic design subjects at Algonquin College.
January 2016 - April 2017 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Education

University Of Ottawa

Bachelor of Education: Primary/Junior (Summa Cum Laude)

September 2011 - June 2012 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

University Of Ottawa

Honours Bachelor of Arts: Major in Psychology, Minor in Linguistics (Cum Laude)

January 2007 - May 2011 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Algonquin College Of Applied Arts And Technology

Graphic Design

Produced extensive projects in motion graphics, interaction design, web design, typesetting, logo design, packaging design, print design, advertising, campaigns, illustration, and photography for the Graphic Design Program at Algonquin College.
September 2014 - April 2017 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Languages

English (Native),
French (Conversational),

Awards

RGD Student Awards Program

Honourable Mention in the Cinnamon Toast Award for Eastern Ontario

2016

Skills

Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Illustration, Ixd, Mot, Music, Professional Writing, Research, Vid,