KATIE KARIMI
My passion lies in designing product experiences and accessible interactive applications that have a positive impact on people’s lives. My product design experience in UI and UX ranges from web apps, mobile products, e-Commerce, motion graphics, illustration, icon design, and photography.
Experience
| Government of Alberta
Front-End / UX Designer,
(Fully Remote)
July 2023 – Present, Toronto
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CIBC
Visual Designer,
May 2022 – Feb 2023, Toronto
UX Designer,
May 2021 – April 2022, Toronto
User Interface Designer (Freelance),
Jan 2021-Jun 2021, Toronto
Skills
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Photoshop
- illustration
- InDesign
- After Effects
- XD
- Figma
- Sketch
- Zeplin
- Azure
- InVision
- Lunacy
- AEM
- e-Commerce
- HTML/CSS
- WordPress
- Responsible Web
- Interaction Design
- User Research
- User Testing
- User Story
- Persona
- Prototyping
- Wireframing
Familiar with
Educations
| Ryerson University
UX Design,
Toronto, Canada.
| Azad University
Bachelor’s degree, Computer Software Engineering Tech,
Tehran, Iran.
| Azad University
Associate degree Computer,
Tehran, Iran.
What does my UX process look like?
What does my UX process look like?
It depends on the type of product. Different projects require different approaches; the approach to a corporate website differs from the way we design a food app, for example.
Design thinking is a UX process that has five stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. I apply design thinking to product design and follow a UX process with the following five key phases: Product definition, Product research, Analysis, Design, and Validation.
Product definition:
Before I can build a product, I need to understand its context for existence. During this phase, I brainstorm around the product at the highest level….