United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

BA Hons

Bachelor of Technology (BTech)

High School Diploma

Callum Cussen

Lead UX Designer

Communication

Problem-solving

Presentation skills

Design systems

User research

Figma

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

User Experience Designer at Shift7 Digital working with the AARP Social Impact team. Responsible for applying User-Centered Design and Design Thinking practices to solve tough design problems. Works in Agile and Lean UX methodologies. Responsible for presenting and communicating designs to partners and stakeholders across the organization. Generate visual concepts to identify the user needs. Ability to quickly and iteratively build interactive prototypes to validate designs.Responsible for conducting research and usability tests to ensure effective involvement of users in early product design concepts. Create storyboards and workflow documents that communicate the experience of multi-step interactions. Support design decisions with research, data, & best practices.

Callum Cussen is a Graphic Designer based in Elkridge, MD. He has over six years of experience in the design industry and enjoys working with clients to create and communicate projects that range from Branding and Identity, Digital/ Interactive, Editorial/ Print, and Advertising.

Responsible for creating branding and identities, print design, advertising and environmental design.
Created user interfaces and won, best medium stand for Travelers at BIBA. Oversaw and proofed artwork, to meet quality and brand standards. Responsible for business relationship management with key clients. Successfully created marketing material which gained a 30% increase in new clients.

Responsible for the creation of print and digital advertising for social media and in editorial publications. Successfully developed email marketing and improved sales by 50%. Responsible for the photography of products for advertising purposes.

Responsible for creating branding and identities, user interfaces, websites, print design and advertising. Successfully create business relationships. Recommend marketing strategy. Responsible for project management to deliver on aggressive deadlines.

Responsible for creating branding and identities, illustrations and editorial design. Created infographics to communicate complex data and information. Developed branding and identity and marketing material. Responsible for project management.

Responsible for creating editorial designs. Oversaw and proofed artwork, to meet quality and brand standards. Successfully redesigned print media for optimal user experience for mobile devices. Responsible for creating presentations and pitches for new magazines. Developed email marketing to improve sales and subscriptions by 20%. Responsible for designing products for the e-commerce website store.

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