Benjamin Lazaro

UX, UI, Product, Visual Design

Melbourne, Australia
UX, UI, Product, Visual Design


Skills
Design: UX, UI, Visual Design, Typography, User Flows, Wireframing, Prototyping, Branding, Illustrations, Iconography.
Tools: Sketch, Xd, InVision, Marvel, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.
Coding: CSS, HTML

Work Experience

Cassette

Digital Designer

Worked within a digital team under a Digital Director and alongside Senior
Developers to design responsive websites and eDMs for businesses in
the property and retail industries. Responsibilities included creating design
systems and low and high fidelity wireframes for desktop and mobile.
April 2021 - August 2021 Melbourne, Australia

Freelance

UI Designer

Design native and web UI for mobile, desktop and tablet platforms.
Create design systems, wireframes, prototypes, branding and visual
identity for start ups and medium-size businesses. Collaboration with
studios; Cassette and Mustard. Clients include; Saucery, ID Land,
Amperfii and Strategy and Design.
February 2020 - Present Melbourne, Australia

RXP Group

UX Designer

Consultant at nbn co. (Australia’s National Broadband Network) within an agile delivery team for People and Culture. Involved in initiatives such as Workday platform enhancements, a relaunch of Spark – a recognition platform, and improving employee onboarding and parental leave experience.
May 2019 - January 2020 Melbourne, Australia

Freelance

Visual Designer

Designed branding, digital and print for clients in Melbourne and collaborated with Berlin based studios; Stand & Marvel and Epic. Clients included; Zalando, Huski, BeCycle, Leakers and Wattage Saver.
July 2013 - January 2017 Berlin, Germany

CHandCO

Graphic Designer

Worked within a marketing team and with sales directors and copywriters at Soho-based food caterer. Designed branding, menus, posters, digital and print signage for client cafés and restaurants based in London. Created bespoke proposal documents and digital presentations to for new business.
January 2017 - August 2018 London, United Kingdom

Madras Link

Graphic Designer

Worked together with Product Designers at Australian home-wares and design company. Spearheaded the first retail online store, revitalised several sub-brands, created season catalogues and social media graphics.
September 2014 - February 2016 Melbourne, Australia

Great Southern Press

Graphic Designer

Designed layouts for Australian industrial magazines within an
in-house design team. Designed magazines’ websites, print and
online advertisements and collateral for annual conference and exhibition events.
September 2010 - June 2013 Australia

SPurpo

Voluntary Creative Lead

sPurpo – Sharing a Purpose – A social enteprise creating a series of projects to end poverty. As Creative Lead, the branding for sPurpo and an online store for the first project was designed.
March 2012 - February 2013 Australia

Education

General Assembly

User Experience Design

Problem Definition, User Research, Competitive Research, Synthesising Research and Creating Personas, Defining User Goals and User Flows, Ideation, Wireframing, Visual Design, Low and High Prototyping, Usability Testing Techniques
May 2019 - July 2019 Melbourne, Australia

University Of The Arts - London

User Experience Design

User Experience Design with a mobile app focus. Disciplines of User Experience, Design Thinking: researching, prototyping, testing and implementation.
June 2018 - June 2018 London, United Kingdom

Monash University

Visual Communication (Bachelor of Design)

March 2009 - June 2011 Melbourne, Australia

Victoria University

Diploma of Arts (Graphic Arts)

February 2007 - November 2008 Melbourne, Australia

Languages

English (Native),
Japanese (Beginner),

Skills

Branding, CSS, HTML5, Iconography, Illustration, Illustrator, Indesign, InVision, Marketing, Marvel, Photoshop, Prototyping, Sketch, Typography, UI, User Flows, Ux, Visual Design, Wireframing, XD,