Emily Allen

About

I merge design, data and strategic thinking with creativity to solve challenges. As a seasoned industry professional who is creative, technical and analytical, I am able to visualize and partake in the whole project from concept to launch Specialties: UX/UI Design and Research, User-center Solutions, Business/Consumer Needs Assessment, Usabilty Testing, Visual Design, Online Help Systems Design and Management, Product Design, Digital Product Dev/Testing, Production Management, Product Management and Department planning, growth and training. Other advanced skills: Web/Graphic Design, SASS, Technical Writing, Illustration, and Multi-lingual Documentation and Design.

Experience

Express Scripts

Apr 2021 – Present

Remote

Sr Ux/UI Designer

Translating business requirements into mockups and prototypes for developers to build out an administrative saas platform.

www.lavishvida.com, www.foryourabode.com

Mar 2020 – Present

Minneapolis

Owner

Built and manage two ecommerce websites. Then after offering delivery to local customers we opened a boutique in a mall where it still thrives today.

Freelance Consulting

Dec 2018 – Present

Minneapolis

UX/UI Designer and Developer and Digital Designer

UX/UI Design and development, digital, media, icons, logo’s, graphics, business materials and illustrations for clients.

Legrand/Milestone AV

Jul 2017 – Dec 2018

Minneapolis

UX Designer and Technical Designer

With majority emphasis on user experience; develop, maintain, and distribute end user design and content for consumer AV products that are engineered and manufactured for Best Buy, Walmart, Target, Costco, Amazon, Sonos, and other smaller stores. Mostly worked on products in the gamer industry.

WEX Health

Mar 2013 – Jul 2017

Minneapolis

UX/UI/IA Designer

Hired to implement UX into SaaS portals, software help system and companies overall dev processes. -Specialized in the design and delivery of online help system to support end users of WEX Health's SAAS in the Healthcare Management Industry. -Developed and configured the online help system (UI/UX) to support internal employees and administrators, consumer portal, mobile app, online help system, training manuals and presentation of instructional materials. -Additional projects involving UX for Release features quarterly that added new workflows to SaaS portals and mobile app. -RoboHelp, MadCap Flare, Figma, Sketch, Visio, HTML, CSS, JS, Photoshop, Illustrator

Merrill Corp

Jan 2011 – Apr 2013

St.Paul

UX/UI Designer/Developer and Process Manager

Front-End and Backend Dev and Design. UX Research and Design on new features and maintained printable products within online stores for multiple clients using HTML, XML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, ActionScript and other design software in the commercial printing industry for B2B vendor.

Education

College of Visual Arts

BFA, Graphics/Illustration

Benchmark Learning Center

Adobe Web Certification, Web Design and Development

Bloc.io

UX/UI Certification, UX/UI Design and Research

Skills