Will Ilarraza
Product Design & UX Consultant
Brooklyn, NY, USAWizastudios is a personal creative brand primarily focused on product and user design. As a digital artist, my goal is to share my skill set with professional companies looking to improve their products.
Work Experience
WORKMARKET
Senior Product Designer (UX Designer III)
My position as a Product Designer within WorkMarket is to place stakeholder requirements into the product while improving the user experience. The specifics of my role include working within feature teams in direct collaboration with stakeholders, Product Managers, and Engineers.
As a design lead for the products talent organization and recruitment features, my role required the research, design and prototyping of these features. Communication with the stakeholders to understand requirements as well as engineers to ensure consistency of the user experience.
As a design lead for the products talent organization and recruitment features, my role required the research, design and prototyping of these features. Communication with the stakeholders to understand requirements as well as engineers to ensure consistency of the user experience.
March 2017
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New York, New York, United States
Frankly Media
Ux Designer & Product Manager
My daily duties includes the design and development of micro-sites as well as landing Pages. Daily revisions are essential while I provide clients with support. As the lead of local sales production my responsibilities require me to maintain deadlines while improving performance to minimize budget costs.
April 2011
- March 2017
New York, United States
Tristate Media Pennysaver
Graphic Designer
My daily duties included the design and layout of display ads within 3 weekly publications and 2 monthly publications. This included the meeting designs within tight deadlines and preparation for print specifications.
March 2006
- April 2011
Pelham, New York, United States
Education
Mercy College
Bachelors of Fine Arts
My studies were focused on Computer Arts (CART). This included the fundamentals of graphic design, web design and 3D animation. The courses provided an understanding of typography, color theory, shape relationship and digital presentations.
September 2003
- March 2006
Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States
Westchester Community College
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Humanities A.A.
Humanities is the broadest of the academic disciplines because it is concerned with the whole spectrum of one’s social, intellectual, artistic, and spiritual history. Humanities study reflects many aspects of human aspiration and achievement. Academic subjects commonly included in humanities are literature, modern languages, philosophy and the arts.
Valhalla, New York, United States
Skills
Abstract,
Adobe After Effects,
Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe Indesign,
Adobe Photoshop,
Adobe Premiere,
CSS,
Design Thinking,
Dovetail,
Figma,
Google Analytics,
Human Centered Design,
InVision,
JavaScript,
Jquery,
LOTTIE,
Material Design,
Material Design,
Miro,
Mobile Design,
Prototyping,
Sketch,
SVG Animation,
Typorgraphy,
UI Design ,
UX Design,
WordPress,
Personal Goals
As someone always in front of a screen the moment to avoid one rarely comes along. I'd like to improve my work/life balance within a comfortable atmosphere and friendly social circle. Traveling is one of these goals as well. I'd like to experience the world's cultures to fuel my own creativity.
Career Goals
As a designer, my goals are focused on continuous development in the areas of Product and UX. In the past year, I've also begun an interest in product illustration design and animation. Applies these skills into a companies identity in the expansion of interactive design would be beneficial.