Makynna Hood
UX and Visual Designer
Austin, TX, USAWork Experience
Dell
UX Designer
• Apply design thinking to the end-to-end customer experience.
• Translate wire frames and requirements into effective visual designs that help customers.
• Create layouts and visual design comps to communicate vision design and final design requirements to internal stakeholders and development teams.
• Work closely with a front-end designer to bring your work to life in html and css while maintain brand standards.
• Participate in user research, usability validation, and A/B testing.
• Work closely with other team members including User Experience Architects, Business Owners, Product Managers, Content Strategists, and Development Teams to bring your designs to life.
• Take ownership of your projects as a whole, following them through to launch and relentlessly looking for the best way to solve business problems and improve the customer experience.
• Translate wire frames and requirements into effective visual designs that help customers.
• Create layouts and visual design comps to communicate vision design and final design requirements to internal stakeholders and development teams.
• Work closely with a front-end designer to bring your work to life in html and css while maintain brand standards.
• Participate in user research, usability validation, and A/B testing.
• Work closely with other team members including User Experience Architects, Business Owners, Product Managers, Content Strategists, and Development Teams to bring your designs to life.
• Take ownership of your projects as a whole, following them through to launch and relentlessly looking for the best way to solve business problems and improve the customer experience.
October 2015
- Present
Texas, United States
Liquid Litigation Management
UX and Visual Designer
○ Design interactive experiences for web-based, tablet-based and responsive platforms
○ Work closely with management and the development team to generate process flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity comps for new or revised product functionality
○ Bring fresh ideas that could help streamline existing processes
○ Collaborate with Marketing on campaigns, collateral and the company’s site
○ Brainstorm, gather feature requirements, and present ideas in a collaborative environment
○ Work closely with management and the development team to generate process flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity comps for new or revised product functionality
○ Bring fresh ideas that could help streamline existing processes
○ Collaborate with Marketing on campaigns, collateral and the company’s site
○ Brainstorm, gather feature requirements, and present ideas in a collaborative environment
October 2015
- April 2017
Texas, United States
TK20
UI Designer
○ Create and maintain all internal UI documents, icons, elements, practices, behaviors, and style guides.
○ Deliver user interface designs and screen mock-ups, from concept to launch.
○ Envision, create, and execute innovative designs that have the potential to establish new best practices while maintaining style guidelines.
○ Justify design decisions by effectively presenting UI options and solutions for peer review.
○ Communicate directly with members of our team, departments and clients
○ Deliver user interface designs and screen mock-ups, from concept to launch.
○ Envision, create, and execute innovative designs that have the potential to establish new best practices while maintaining style guidelines.
○ Justify design decisions by effectively presenting UI options and solutions for peer review.
○ Communicate directly with members of our team, departments and clients
October 2013
- October 2015
Texas, United States
Clutch Creative
Contract Designer
○ Iconography
○ Whitepaper Templates
○ Responsive Design
○ Infographics
○ Presentation Decks
○ InDesign Interactive PDFs
○ Diagrams
○ Whitepaper Templates
○ Responsive Design
○ Infographics
○ Presentation Decks
○ InDesign Interactive PDFs
○ Diagrams
August 2013
- January 2014
Austin, Texas, United States
Spiceworks
Contract Designer
○ Banner Ad Creation (Industry Sizes) for Clients such as Windows, HP, Samsung, IBM, VMware // (webinars, whitepapers, emails, products, and services)
○ HTML & CSS on Vendor Pages and Product Pages within Spiceworks
○ Collaboration on Creative Campaigns
○ Messaging & Copy Writing
○ HTML & CSS on Vendor Pages and Product Pages within Spiceworks
○ Collaboration on Creative Campaigns
○ Messaging & Copy Writing
August 2013
- October 2013
Austin, Texas, United States
Infochimps
Visual Design Specialist
○ Creative development of...
-- illustrated collateral (diagrams, charts/graphs,infographics)
-- written collateral (case studies, white papers and product sheets)
-- printed materials (business cards, trade show supplies,tchotchkes)
-- digital materials (icon libraries, animated and static banner ads, HTML emails)
-- sales supporting materials (training documents, proposals, powerpoint decks)
○ Managing all public facing materials to ensure branding and style guide consistency
-- illustrated collateral (diagrams, charts/graphs,infographics)
-- written collateral (case studies, white papers and product sheets)
-- printed materials (business cards, trade show supplies,tchotchkes)
-- digital materials (icon libraries, animated and static banner ads, HTML emails)
-- sales supporting materials (training documents, proposals, powerpoint decks)
○ Managing all public facing materials to ensure branding and style guide consistency
September 2012
- May 2013
Texas, United States
Education
The Art Institute Of Austin
Bachelors of Fine Arts in Web Design and Interactive Media
December 2010
- December 2012
Austin, Texas, United States
Skills
Adobe Creative Suite,
Actionscript,
Brand Indentity ,
CSS,
Dreamweaver,
Email,
Fireworks,
Flash,
Graphic Design,
HTML,
Hubspot ,
Illustrator,
Indesign,
Logo Design,
Marketing,
Photoshop,
Typography,
Visual Communication,
Web Design,
WordPress,