United States

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

Interaction Design

Art Center College of Design

Colorado State University

High School Deploma

Chris R. Becker

Sr. UX Designer / Educator / Author

Learn Human Computer Interaction Book

UX collective Articles

Github

Public Speaking

Qualitative research

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Presentation skills

Content creation

Design systems

Optimal Workshop

Webflow

Zeplin

Airtable

Figma

Framer

GitHub

Adobe Creative Suite

Sketch

I am an adjunct associate professor for the undergraduate graphic design course teaching VxD1 a foundational skills in UX, HCI, and web design including concepts from UX, UI, Web Design, HTML/CSS/JS, Webflow, and systems design. The couse helps students grow digital knowledge and helps them build their portfolios.

Mentoring Design Students who are learning through DesignLab and looking to improve their skills. Providing design critique, industry tips, career advice, and participating in the design community. Mentoring for Short Courses, UX Academy Foundations, UX Academy.

Supporting Allē.com in the iteration of a new product. A local marketing, rewards program, and customer acquisition platform by Allergan. Supporting software design practices and iteration via prototyping, UX best practices, and IxD strategy, and much more for moving the product from beta in to general release.

An educator and mentor helping support designers and finding ways to improve our knowledge and experience sharing because great user experience should be scaled and shared by all that are involved. Join me excited to help.

A Product / UX Design consultant with years of leading creative teams as well as a design classrooms. By building a process every company and designer can solve challenging problems and drive success for their users and businesses. Chris R Becker Design brings design thinking workshops and creative strategies that can help any company or creative team grow their skills and build great products. A versed product designer and educator who is committed to agile and prototyping first methodologies allowing teams to create collaboratively and improve their output to build software that is useful, usable, accessible, and delightful for users.

Currently working with a startups. 

• Edmit.me
• Growic 
• OSU robotics
• Deutsch (Snapple.com)
• Kering Luxury Goods Company
• Ben Reamer Design

Accepting part-time project work.

2U/Trilogy Education Services is preparing students for high-growth careers in the Digital Economy. We create and manage skills-based training programs that are university-run, student-tested, and employer-approved. Developed and designed a 24 week bootcamp that is taught taught around the world (USA, Canada, Australia) with the world's leading universities, including Northwestern School of Professional Studies, UC Berkeley Extension, and Columbia and University of Toronto and Monash University and 25 + partners.

Product 1: 24 week part-time UX/UI Bootcamp 
• Spearheading the conception and development of the 2U/Trilogy Education Services: UX/UI Curriculum. 
• Co-managed a team of 10 curriculum engineers, learning designers, editors, visual designers, and QA. 
• Applied agile software methodologies to maintaining curriculum at scale using GitHub, Jira, and Google docs.
• Developed and wrote detailed lesson plans for instructors and university partners to use during teaching. Lead a team of curriculum designers and engineers on the creation of content. 
• Lead team in tech trends and create content to meet demands. 
• Provide expert technical guidance on industry-based best practices. 
• Conceive of new ideas for more effectively enhancing student learning. 
• Provide senior leadership to junior developers via training and code reviews. 
• Establish best practices in lesson plan development, style guides, learning materials, and coding techniques. 
• Assist in decision making around new program development. 
• Provide thought leadership within the organization and external partners on all matters related to UX/UI. Sustained 3x to 4x growth moving the product from 1m in 2018 to 13 m in 2020.  

Developed and designed a 16 week semester UX/UI Bootcamp in partnership with Netflix and HBCU - Norfolk State University. Managed a small team (5 ppl) to produce world class curriculum that looks to help be a catalyst for improving people of colors access to tech.

The UX/UI Boot Camp at UCLA Continuing Education is competitive, 24-week programs that train students for high growth careers in the Digital Economy. Offered on campus, The UX/UI Boot Camp support student success through graduation and job placement. Worked with 28 students through UX + Design thinking processes, User Interface design for web and mobile applications, and basics of front end development. Lead a Team of 2 TAs and student support staff to advance student into growing technical fields.

The UX/UI Boot Camp at UT Austin Continuing Education is competitive, 24-week programs that train students for high growth careers in the Digital Economy. Offered on-campus, The UX/UI Boot Camp supports student success through graduation and job placement. Worked with 28 students through UX + Design thinking processes, User Interface design for web and mobile applications, and basics of front end development. Lead a Team of 2 TAs and student support staff to advance students into growing technical fields. 
As the Lead Curriculum Architect / Instructor I offer support to instructors across the country, in this case, an instructor could not complete the course and I was brought in to help support the class during the transition teaching 6 weeks of the course materials.

Trilogy Education Services (acquired by 2U in 2018) was a Continuing Education Program Manager (CEPM) whose mission is to empower universities to transform the lives of students by preparing them for high-growth careers in the Digital Economy. We create and manage skills-based training programs that are university-run, student-tested, and employer-approved.  trust Trilogy to help their students meet the needs of the Digital Economy.

• Spearheaded the conception and development of the Trilogy Education Services: UX/UI Curriculum. 
• Brought the UX/UI Bootcamp from 0-1 in (~7 mths) also taught the first version of the bootcamp at UCI in 2017
• Develop and wrote detailed lesson plans for instructors and university partners to use during teaching a 24 week bootcamp. 
• Lead a small team of curriculum designers (x2) and FE engineers (x1) on the creation of content. 
• Stay abreast of tech trends and create content to meet demands of UX/UI industry including new prototying tools (Adobe XD + Figma). 
• Provided Subject matter expertise (SME) technical guidance on industry-based best practices. 
• Conceived of new ideas for more effectively enhancing student learning. 
• Provided senior leadership to junior developers via training and code reviews. 
• Established best practices in lesson plan development, style guides, learning materials, and coding techniques. 
• Assist in decision making around new program development. 
• Provide thought leadership within the organization and external partners on all matters related to UX/UI.
• Helped scale the UX/UI curriculum from 1 to 8 universities in its first 1.5 years. Taught at UCI, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UT Austin, George Washington, Georgia Tech, University of Denver, University of Minnesota, and growing. 
• Iterated curriculum and helped train instructors.

Packt is the leading UK provider of Technology eBooks, Coding eBooks, Videos and Blogs; helping IT professionals to put software to work. I have produced an online UX for Developers course and am currently in the process of developing 3 more UX online courses due out in Dec 2017. 

• Devised course outlines, created lectures and slide decks as well as resources and lesson plans.
• Recorded video course, wrote scripts, did voice over. 
• Wrote a book: Learn Human Computer Interaction
• Illustrated the book with content relevant to the learning sections. 
• Developed and created activities and hands on learning opportunities through out the text.
• Worked with international editors, technical editors, and tight production timelines.

Adjunct Professor - 
Design Thinking  - DESMA X / ART X 481.55
User Experience 1: Survey - DESMA X 481.99AF
Design thinking II - ART-X 481.55A
UX/UI Bootcamp 

Created lesson plans, lectures, work shops, and assignments. Manage class time, determined learning outcomes and associated social and technological advancements relevant and important to the User Experience and Design profession. Mentored students through learning and design thinking methodology in order to push creativity, designerly ways of knowing and rapid prototyping to meet demands of the modern design world.

Chris R. Becker🇺🇸