As a User Experience Designer, I design complex digital systems with an approach centered around the system's users. Serving the user's needs and goals should always be a priority. Throughout the process of research, idea generation, prototyping, testing, and delivering, the user is kept as the central focus. Through diverse projects and with the help of incredible teammates, I have designed the user's path through systems, as well as, designed and prototypes the interface that the user experiences the system through.
InStore is part SaaS tool and part Marketplace designed to give students a chance to learn the ropes of starting their own business by giving them an environment where they can learn by doing. Our goal is to create a space that lowers competition and pressure on students while allowing them to gain valuable and relevant experience to further their careers.
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Attain is a mobile app with a simple goal: "make sustainable attainable". Put simply, we set out to create a way to make leading a more sustainable lifestyle more accessible to everyday people. Attain is a mobile app designed to help users make more environmentally conscious decisions and take easy action steps towards a more sustainable lifestyle.
For this project, I was tasked with designing a website for the estate of Modernist graphic designer Paul Rand to honor his work and legacy. This site was meant to be a comprehensive space for users new to Rand’s work. The site was to be presented as a fully functional website prototype that includes all design elements, all copy, and all generic elements. This site is intended to be a brief overview, rather than a comprehensive collection of Paul Rand’s work. With this scope and audience in mind, I have designed a space to best serve users who are new to the work of Paul Rand.
In my Front-End Development II course, I was tasked with designing and building an ecommerce website. I decided to meld my passions for design and music by creating a website that sells sample packs for use in music production. This website was structured and styled using HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap. Using JavaScript, I added scripting to include email form validation and a dynamic order form that calculates tax and totals.
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Leave Me Alone is an IOS app designed to combat phone addiction and motivate users to spend less time using their phones. With the help of my wonderful team, we implemented a Goal-Directed Design approach to design an app that best served our users' needs and goals. We followed the Goal- Directed Design process to go from idea to high-fidelity prototype, with multiple rounds of user testing to validate our decisions.
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I am always looking for ways to blend my passions of design and music. The creation of a stunning website for my personal music project "FLXMS" was a unique opportunity to do so. This project allowed me to implement creative problem solving and music industry knowledge along-side my skills as a Webflow Developer to create a clean, eye-catching, and responsive site that will serve to enhance this creative project going forward.
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I pride myself on having a growth mindset. I love to grow my skills through constant learning and self-directed design project. In 2021, I have decided to refine my craft by regularly creating a new website design, based on ideas generated by a website called IdeasAI.net. I find a new idea on the website and strategize, sketch, wireframe, and prototype a landing page bases on the idea using Figma. Feel free to interact with the prototypes below or open them in full-screen mode or a new tab.
As a Visual Designer, I communicate information in a manor that is more clearly understood by a viewer. While design must be aesthetically pleasing, it must also serve a purpose and communicate information. Put simply by iconic Modernist designer Paul Rand “Visual communications of any kind, whether persuasive or informative, from billboards to birth announcements, should be seen as the embodiment of form and function: the integration of the beautiful and the useful.” My aim as a visual designer is to create works that are not only beautiful, but useful and serve their intended purpose in the best possible way.
I was tasked with creating and designing for two distinctly different brands. I chose to create brand identities for a music software brand and a high-end coffee maker brand because I felt that there was little overlap between these industries, allowing me to be challenged beyond my typical comfort zone. My mission was to create the logos and style guides for each of these unique brands.
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As a Graphic Artist, I was responsible for collaboratively design promotional materials, flyers, conference programs, brochures, and website graphics.
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My employer, KSU's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning(CETL), is a resource for over 2,000 full-time and part-time faculty at Kennesaw State University. Each semester, CETL hosts a series of workshops and events. These workshops are categorized under different areas and classifications, making organizing information a challenge. My coworker and I were tasked with designing a brochure to advertise and group events for the Spring 2020 semester. The biggest challenge to this design was fitting the name, facilitators, times and locations of over 40 workshops into a limited space, while maintaining readability of text and visual appeal. We overcame these obstacles to create a brochure that categorized events into ten categories and grabs the attention of the faculty members it was sent to, while adhering to the brand guidelines of Kennesaw State University.
This project was designed collaboratively with Valeria Diaz.
My employer, KSU's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning(CETL), is a resource for over 2,000 full-time and part-time faculty at Kennesaw State University. CETL underwent a restructuring process in fall of 2019. Because of this, they need a brochure to advertise the center's new structure and highlight the services and support area they provide. It was decided that CETL could be broken down into three major branches, each with their own support areas and services. We used this information as a guide to create a trifold brochure to display each branches mission, support areas, services, and contact information. Through multiple revisions, we created a visually appealing brochure to advertise the new structure and services of CETL.
This project was designed collaboratively with Valeria Diaz.
Hi, my name is Grant. I am a User Experience Designer and Visual Designer with a Bachelor's Degree in Interactive Design from Kennesaw State University. I am passionate about design in all forms and aspects. While I started my colligate journey in Architecture, I transferred my knowledge of design fundamentals into creating delightful experiences with digital products rather than physical spaces. As a UX Designer, I use this passion and design thinking to solve problems within complex digital systems, both shaping the user’s interaction with the system and designing the visual interface. I have built a refined toolkit of design fundamentals, usability research, visual design, and prototyping.
In my time studying at Kennesaw State University, I have formed my UX Design toolkit through courses in Interaction Design, Visual Design, User Interface Design, and Usability Testing. In these courses, I have created projects that include but are not limited to brand identities, interface designs, and digital product designs collaboratively using the Goal-Directed Design and Lean UX frameworks. While this program has given me strong experience in design implementation, it also had a heavy emphasis on teaching the principles that guide my design decisions and using these principles to justify and present my work. I am a strong believer in having a growth mindset and I use this mentality to push me to consistently seek out new information through online tutorials and practice my craft through regular self-directed projects. At KSU, I also participated in the Joel A. Kats Music and Entertainment Business Program. These courses gave me great experience in marketing and business strategy, adding excellent supplementary skills to my toolkit.
As my education nears completion, I am excited to head out into the workforce and make an impact on the world through design. I always emphasize the importance of User-Centered Design because serving user goals is a critical step in achieving business goals and I plan to bring this mindset into my next position. I am looking for an opportunity in User Experience Design to apply and grow my diverse skillset and bring value to a team and our users.
