Makynna Hood

UX and Visual Designer

Austin, TX, USA

Work 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.
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
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
October 2013 - October 2015 Texas, United States

Clutch Creative

Contract Designer

○ Iconography
○ 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
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
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,