About Daniel

Dedicated Senior UX Designer with over a decade of experience crafting exceptional user experiences that drive product success. Adept at leading cross-functional teams and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver innovative design solutions. Proven track record in user research, interaction design, and prototyping, resulting in user-centric, visually appealing, and highly usable digital products. Strong advocate for accessibility and usability principles, ensuring inclusive and seamless experiences for all users. Looking to bring my expertise in UX design to a dynamic team that values creativity, collaboration, and user-centered design principles.

Skills

Design

Photoshop
Illustrator
Figma
AfterEffects

Development

HTML
CSS
PHP
JavaScript

Additional Skills

UI/UX Design
HTML5
SCSS
JavaScript
jQuery
Angular
React
TypeScript
Responsive Design
Email Marketing
Cross-browser Testing
SEO
CMS
WordPress
ActionScript
Microsoft Office Suite
Adobe Premiere
JSON
AJAX
CakePHP
MySQL
FTP
SVN
Mac/PC

Portfolio

DaySmart Recreation

Redesign sports and recreation customer app

Researched legacy app usage by pageviews, devices and direct customer feedback
Designed wireframes and mockups utilizing a mobile-first approach
Collaborated closely with developers, product owners and testers to discover gaps and solve problems during development
Compiled feedback from beta users and prioritized work for immediate and future improvements

Dreamersi

Redesign multi-lingual web hosting app

Designed wireframes and mockups for web and email management app
Worked closely with engineers to develop responsive UI/UX for front-end of client hosting portal
Improved loading times by creating sprite sheets and compressing files
Used Photoshop, HTML, CSS, PHP, JSON, JavaScript, and jQuery library

HopTile

One-page website builder

Designed wireframes and rapidly created interactive prototypes for experimental website builder app
Collaborated with developers and engineers to create an intuitive interface for complex tasks
Developed custom image cropping tool along with UI to embed videos and RSS feeds
Used Photoshop, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, and jQuery.

PSPinc

Designed prototype for internal demos, worked with sales team, and developed responsive website
Used Photoshop, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery library

Julie Paton Designs

Designed mockups, responsive website, and integrated Facebook social feed and photo albums
Used Photoshop, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, and jQuery, and Facebook API

Ezell's Chicken

Met with Ezell's President to discuss website project
Conducted research for design trends in fast food industry
Designed website mockups, and prototype to present to client
Used Photoshop, HTML, CSS, and jQuery

Woodburn Co

Met with client to discuss website redesign needs
Conducted research for design trends in printer and copy machine sales industry
Designed mockups, developed website, and trained client on making updates via CMS interface
Used Photoshop, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery

Fazewire

Designed mockups and developed website
Built custom jQueryUI slideshow with touch interface
Integrated AJAX domain search functionality
Used Photoshop, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery

Experience

Senior UX Designer

DaySmart Software (formerly Dash Platform) - Remote

July 2017 - Present

Collaborate with product owners, engineers, customers (B2B/B2C) and other stakeholders to design exceptional user experiences for multiple apps concurrently.
Conduct quantitative/qualitative user research, interpret data, create user stories, personas, determine information architecture, create sitemaps, wireframes, and conduct usability testing.
Utilize responsive web design principles, user research, and pattern libraries to design interfaces for PHP and Angular apps using Figma.
Maintain and enforce UX style guides and UI standards.
Mentor designers, provide guidance and feedback to ensure growth in UX disciplines.

Lead Web Designer

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. - Bellevue, WA

January 2014 - July 2017

Designed wireframes and mockups for company software and client websites utilizing responsive web design.
Led multiple projects while reporting to stakeholders and clients directly.
Mentored junior designers, provided design feedback, and code reviews.
Implemented social media services to create professional content for client customers.

Web Designer