Sweden

UX Design

Product Design

Growth Design

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Samanta Aquino

UXfolio

Lead Product Designer

Usability Testing

Communication

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Accessibility

User research

Figma

Designing experiences that help more creators discover Epidemic Sound and fall in love with it.

On a "capability" team, collaborating with ML, creating the foundations for future features that will live in all our platforms/clients.

On the Mobile team, in the Core domain, designing new features for our iOS and Android users.

On the Acquisition team, in the Growth domain, designing experiences and experiments to grow our user base.

• Lead design through the re-positioning of our product from B2C to B2B2C.
• Continuously facilitate workshops and activities to clarify next steps and/or reach alignment.
• Participate, facilitate, and represent user needs and design in OKR definition processes.
• Plan and run feature analysis and prioritization workshops in collaboration with PMs, data scientists, and engineering.
• Plan and run user story mapping sessions to plan the team's work.
• Continue to support the core product team through the discovery, design exploration, iteration, implementation, and launch of new feature work.

▪ Lead design as Dreams prepared to launch in a new geographic market.
▪ Craft user research objective documents
▪ Moderate user research interviews
▪ Analyze and present qualitative research data
▪ Run design sprints and other methods to drive discovery and ideation
▪ Foster collaboration and partnership between engineering and design through activities and ways of working
▪ Provide clear design specs and lead design QA efforts
▪ Consistently meet aggressive project deadlines
▪ Influence and shape the team processes and culture
▪ Champion web accessibility in the organization and product

As a member of the Intersect product team, I built solutions that facilitate connections between college recruiting staff and high school counselors, to ultimately help students find institutions that are the best fit for them.

Year 2018
I helped design a range of new features for different tools within Intersect and transitioned various legacy products into the new platform.

Apr 2017 
I transitioned into the Intersect product team and I helped integrate Hobson's latest acquisition, RepVisits.com, into the Intersect ecosystem.
▪  Worked with a small team of 3 to internally launch the first version of our component library 
▪  Created and maintain a versioned Sketch UI Kit of our design system to make mock-up creation easier for designers
▪  Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering Teams in an Agile environment
▪  Create flow-charts, mock-ups and prototypes from user problems
▪  Create design solutions that align to a greater design system
▪  Provide clear design specs with the help of InVision Inspect
▪  Consistently meet aggressive deadlines
▪  Document UX Debt when project constraints overrule optimal interaction design
▪  Document design rationale to create a shared language among designers 

Feb 2017
As a member of the Research & Development Team I helped identify, research and validate new directions for the business.
▪  Outlined problem statements, scope, and success metrics for different research projects
▪  Created journey maps, flow-charts, mock-ups and prototypes to explore potential user needs
▪  Co-created research questions and scripts
▪  Participated in research as an note-taking Observer

▪  Create flowcharts, visual solutions and prototypes for the Let's Talk!™ product using Omnigraffle/Draw.io, Sketch and InVision
▪  Prepare accurate and detailed design documents: style guides, pattern libraries and spec documents
▪  Analyze, optimize and document team processes
▪  Collaborate with the marketing team to define the art direction of their visual needs
▪  Write and lead usability tests 
▪  Interpret user testing insights and translate into actionable next steps

As Codemera's lead designer I helped SMB owners and startup founders navigate their thoughts and productize their ideas. I was responsible for the visual design of our clients’ products and a key player in the initial front-end implementation.

▪  Met with clients to define and clarify project goals; presented proposals; and defended design solutions.
▪  Designed wireframes and high-fidelity mockups for both websites and web apps.
▪  Prototyped proposals using modern tools such as InVision or HTML prototyping (using the Bootstrap framework)
▪  Collaborated in the design of the user experience of both new and existing product features.
▪  Delivered high-fidelity designs, specifications and assets to clients and the team.
▪  Authored quality HTML and CSS (Sass & Less) code that's easy to collaborate with.
▪  Implemented designs using modern practices and responsive web design principles.
▪  Helped develop site content and graphics by coordinating with copywriters and other designers.

As Viva Resorts’ in-house web designer in 2010, I worked side by side with the marketing department to re-design VivaResorts.com, the online booking site for the Viva Wyndham Resorts in Mexico and the Caribbean. 

▪  Designed wireframes and high-fidelity mockups.
▪  Collaborated closely with outsourced consultants on a daily basis.
▪  Developed HTML/CSS templates for the Django framework.
▪  Provided graphic design solutions that supported the social media manager (designed banners, ads, Facebook pages, etc.)

Additionally, as our 6-month contract drew to a close, the company extended our collaboration an additional 3-months to work on the design and launch of VivaResidence.com, a website for their newly renovated condominium resort.

As a web designer in Default Media Group (later rebranded to Ment Media) I designed layouts and promotional graphics for various SMB clients, and developed HTML/CSS templates for ASP.NET projects.

As a web designer in Chng! Advertising (pronounced "change") I designed layouts for various SMB clients, and developed static websites using HTML/CSS.

Samanta Aquino🇸🇪