Hi, I’m Christian Jara.
I am a UI/UX designer with lead and senior experience on internal applications, websites and digital interfaces. I love helping my company achieve their goals and grow their brand. I am a very passionate designer that’s always willing to grow, learn and try something new. I have years of industry experience either on in-house teams as well as agencies and understand the challenges that come with both environments. I have worked with exceptional companies throughout my career, I love what I do and I work exceptionally hard at improving myself every day. I’m fully capable and effective working remotely or on-site, I take pride in my work and professionalism.
I have over 15 years of User Interface/User Experience Design with a focus on high end services, financial, medical and lately government services as well as e-commerce. I offer my employer a wealth of knowledge in design, usability and web accessibility. Throughout my career I’ve been able to mentor and collaborate with a variety of creative professionals. My constant goal is to create the finest possible solution for both my company and our users. While my creative ability is impressive my end goal is function over form.
Nielsen Norman Group
UX Certification
Credential ID 1046108
Nielsen Norman Group UX Certificate
Interaction Design Specialty with Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) focus.
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Courses Completed:
Interaction design (HCI) 3-day course
Mobile User Experience
Web Page UX Design
Few things you should know about me.
UI/UX Skills
HCI Certified
Sketching and Wire-framing.
Low/Med/Hi-Fidelity Prototypes.
Interactive Prototypes.
Visual Design and Brand Identity.
E-Commerce Style Guides.
A/B and Multivariate Testing.
Responsive Design.
Research and user shadowing.
IOS/Android App Design.
Knowledge of HTML, CSS.
UI kits.
Proven experience delivering concepts, personas, user journeys, storyboards, and user flows.
Responsibilities
Meeting with Business Analysts and Project owners
Participate in User testing
Translate findings into usable Wireframes or Prototypes
Depending on the project create Low/Med/Hi Fidelity Prototypes
Create Responsive Layouts
Create Styleguides for the Developers
Provide any graphic element for developers
Participate in Project testing
Participate in user shadowing and interviews
Software
Sketch, Figma, and Adobe XD for UI/UX mockups
Adobe CC Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, XD)
Axure, InVision and Marvel for rapid prototyping
Balsamiq - Rapid wireframing
Knowledge of PEGA platform
Below is a sample of my UX/UI process.
Define
Define requires the business and users to have collaborated together, this includes requirements, User cases, and business rules which are essential to the success of the project, for us to know what to fix we need to have user stories and requirements.
Research
Based on requirements my job is to research the project, this includes creating personas, empathy maps, and pain points encountered by the users. By recognizing the issues the users are encountering we can have a better and more educated guess as to how to solve them.
Design
Once the research phase is completed, I then go ahead and start sketching, wireframing multiple scenarios and screens which I will submit and have approved by the relevant stakeholders. Once these wireframes are approved I will then move to High definition mock-ups and full flows which if needed will be interactive, this will help us present a better and more complete user experience to our testing groups.
Test & Support
Once the design phase is approved we move to test, this requires putting our designs in front of users which will then review and guide us to finalize and have a better product by making the appropriate changes.
Once the testing is done I will then work with the developers and provide any elements, prototypes, and mock-ups needed to make the development process move forward. This includes UI kits, graphics, and any color and typeface guidance needed.