United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Branding

Interaction Design

UX Research

Bachelor of Science

Kristen Tourek

Senior UX Designer

Resume

Portfolio

Usability Testing

Typography

Quantitative research

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Problem-solving

Time management

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

UserTesting

WordPress

Zeplin

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Asana

ChatGPT

Figma

HTML

InVision

Jira

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

Google Analytics

Workday

Sketch

Designed highly responsive web interfaces for desktop, mobile sites, and mobile apps, including both external and internal systems.
Enhanced complex, multi-site design systems to ensure consistency and accessibility across all platforms.
Completed brand library migration and updates.
Conducted research on optimal product design practices and solutions, including interviews, creating user personas, journey maps, service blueprints, site maps, etc.
Managed multiple projects, conducted stakeholder meetings, presented designs, and incorporated feedback.
Directed projects and designed processes from end to end, guiding decisions.
Provided training and onboarding to junior designers and interns.
Collaborated with multiple teams and departments across various disciplines, including development handoff.

Created fully responsive low-fidelity wireframes and high-fidelity mockups.
Converted Sketch files and libraries into Figma.
Devised and maintained cohesive design systems across brands.
Carried out best practice, competitor, and user research.
Worked alongside the development team to co-create processes.

Created themed graphics and ads for client dealerships.
Managed client accounts, creating monthly advertisement campaigns.

Developed custom logos and branding materials for websites for a variety of clients.
Crafted unique user experiences from paper sketches and interviews to full WordPress and WooCommerce development.
Managed multiple client accounts, conducted client meetings, presented designs, and incorporated feedback.

Synthesized research and feedback to develop engaging solutions for public-facing sites and internal systems.
Produced wireframes and prototypes using Balsamiq and XD to create a seamless user experience.
Crafted insightful research studies, such as personas, storyboards, and card sorts, to enhance the user journey.

Created and maintained Bootstrap and SplashThat event website.
Managed multiple client accounts - collaborated to to create personalized, monthly newsletters for print and email campaigns.
Updated and customized client Wordpress and Dakno websites.
Designed and installed spliced email signature blocks.

Optimized product images to maintain quality standards
Designed custom web graphics including banners and title images for promotions
Designed editable PDF forms for printable invitation suites

Provided customer assistance to professors and students
Performed computer maintenance
Diagnosed issues with technologies such as Mac OS X, Windows 2007 Enterprise, Blackboard, slide and digital projector systems, and printers

Managed communication with countless libraries.
Searched for and gathered research from local and national library archives.
Organized and cataloged data for reference use.

Instructed elementary and middle school students in their math and science studies
Maintained files detailing the progress of students
Created unique lesson plans to coordinate with in-class teaching to improve student understanding as well as performance on standardized testing

Kristen Tourek🇺🇸