United States

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Summer Studies

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

Samantha Havas

Senior Product Designer

Usability Testing

Product strategy

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Stakeholder management

Project management

Analytical skills

Design systems

User research

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Data-Driven designer creating experiences for a two-sided Consumer Marketplace at Angi, mainly focused on projects within the Service Request path (which receives 280K visitors per day, accounting for 3M in daily revenue). Developing design and testing strategies as well as research initiatives that drive results including profitable product features and user-centric improvements.

Support the HOMER product roadmap and overarching brand vision through design across multiple platforms (android, IOS, mobile and web), devices, and audiences. 

Rapidly create user experience artifacts including functional specs, user flows, wireframes, sitemaps, prototypes, and low-fidelity sketches.

Collaborate with the Engineering team to ensure product designs are executed to spec and iterate on design solutions based on feedback, research and test results. 

Collaborate with user research to conduct both qualitative and quantitative studies (field observations, customer interviews, play testing/usability studies and surveys)
            

    
    

    
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Recent clients include Chargebee, Lytics, Stackla, MathWiz 

www.slhavas.com

Lead fellow designers and collaborate with copywriters, creative strategists, and account managers on the creation of websites (the end to end process from wireframes to UI element libraries) and other digital marketing assets such as emails, ads, and microsites. Responsibilities also include participating in design critiques, presenting work to clients, and mentoring other designers on digital projects. 

Main Clients: AMEX, Sephora, First Manhattan Co

Lead a brand refresh: evolved the brand’s visual language, rewrote the guidelines, and redesigned all brand, marketing and sales assets. 
>> Solely responsible for upholding the brand guidelines and their continued evolution.

Primary web designer for Stackla.com.
>> Redesigned homepage and core web pages which resulted in a 31% increase in product demo requests and 33% increase in organic web traffic. 

Develop visually-engaging assets to support all global marketing communications across web, email, social, and events. 
>> Design gated assets including a product demo microsite which has generated over 500 net new leads since launch Jan 2018.
            

    
    

    
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Developed quality brand campaigns, websites, digital assets, infographics, environmental design, and print collateral for both internal and external communication.

Maintained and evolved corporate brand standards.

Mentored a junior designer.

Photography and photo editing.

Prepared documents for print and oversaw production activity.

Implemented a rebrand of all corporate brand and marketing assets when Cassidy Turley was acquired by DTZ. 

Worked on a small team (with a Senior Designer and the West Coast Creative Director) on corporate brand campaigns and marketing initiatives. 

Worked as an in-house designer for 10 real estate brokers juggling multiple projects at once. This often included a full suite of branding, logo design, websites, email campaigns, digital assets, flyers, and environmental graphics.

Worked on a team with an Account Planner and Copywriter to oversee the quality and production of creative work for 6 Ad Lab clients: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Cambridge Communications, Urban Ecology Institute Work, Community, Independence, Arion, Somerville Parking. 

Provided suggestions and ideas for revision before approving advertising materials.

Work with a group of creatives to come up with concepts and design execution for an advertising campaign for Glidden Paint that we will be judged against 7 other schools at the Regional Competition this spring. 

Art direct all design work. 

Responsible for the design and organization of the plansbook layout.

Designed infographics, event flyers, and advertisements. 

Photographed and edited images of museum artifacts.

Assisted in planning events.

Attended marketing meetings.

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