Carine van Slageren

UX/UI Designer & FE Developer

Melbourne, Australia
As a product designer with a background in anthropology, my designs combine usability with clean aesthetics while always keeping the user front of mind.

I dream, visualise and push boundaries.

Work Experience

Chumley

Lead UX Designer

- Working directly with the CEO to identify and design the MVP of a new marketplace mobile app to empower homeowners and tradespeople to manage their property jobs.
- Creating user-centred design following the design-thinking process.
- Conducting qualitative and quantitative research and competitive analysis.
- Communicating ideas through user stories, user flows and wireframes.
- Conducting usability tests with users through interactive prototypes.
- Leading weekly brainstorm sessions with the CEO to simplify flows and find the best solutions keeping users front of mind.
- Creating clean and usable visual designs that align with the product and target group.
June 2021 - Present

Aspect

Digital Product Manager

- In charge of the design and roll out of a new internal operating system built on Salesforce.
- Lay the foundation of a new design team during lock-down, introducing daily stand-ups, short cycle sprints and finding new ways to continue collaboration while working remotely.
- Weekly meetings with the product owner, technical architect and key stakeholders to ensure the business requirements are met.
- Interviewed, hired and managed a product team of seven people.
September 2020 - June 2021 United Kingdom

Aspect

UX Designer

Responsible for the design, build and roll-out of an online payment system to reactively calculate job values, take payments and post to Aspect financial systems.
Responsible for the design and build of HTML email templates following company branding.
- Working closely with developers and designers to ensure the end-to-end product flow is implemented correctly.
- Set up bi-directional integrations between WordPress, Salesforce and Trustpilot using Zapier.
- Creating videos to announce new product features to the user base.
- Within four months from implementation, this system covered 80% of the company’s daily transactions.
October 2019 - February 2019 United Kingdom

Morffew Photos

Photographer

Managing, directing and assisting in high-end (family) photoshoots. Other responsibilities included consulting with clients, post-production related work, administration and sales.
October 2018 - February 2019 Sydney, Australia

The Photo Studio

Photography Assistant

Working closely with a team of professional photographers, stylists and studio managers while getting first-hand experience in all tasks involved with running professional photoshoots.
September 2018 - February 2019 Sydney, Australia

EF Education First

Activities Coordinator

Organising and leading excersions for international students to experience Australia's culture through sports, clubs and activities. Other responsibilities included liaising with local suppliers, sales, admin and designing promo material.
August 2017 - February 2018 Sydney, Australia

Education

Career Foundry

UX Immersion

November 2020 - August 2021

Career Foundry

Front End Development

August 2021 - October 2021

Utrecht University

Bachelor of Cultural Anthropology

August 2013 - August 2017 Utrecht, Netherlands

University Of Amsterdam

Magazine Design

July 2017 - July 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands

University Of Copenhagen

Minor Sociology

August 2015 - January 2016 Copenhagen, Denmark

Languages

Dutch (Native),
English (Fluent),
French (Conversational),
Spanish (Conversational),
German (Conversational),

Skills

Adobe, CSS, Figma, Front End Development, GitHub, HTML, JavaScript, Monday.com, Product Management, SalesForce, UI Design , UX Design, UX Research, Zapier,