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Andrew Chandler

Verified Expert in Design

Designer

Location

New York, NY, United States

Toptal Member Since

February 13, 2018

As a designer or team leader, Andrew designs experiences that make a difference in people's lives. Andrew's record includes successful redesigns, integrations, and enhancements for digital products, services, and apps for major companies that served millions of users. He looks forward to collaboration.

Mockups Sitemaps UX Flows User Flows Wireframing Information Architecture (IA)UX Design User Journey Maps Journey Mapping Usability Testing User Interface (UI)User Interviews Product Design UX Architecture eCommerce UX

Portfolio

Work Experience

Director, User Experience

2017 - 2018

Scholastic

Acted as the lead designer for a complete redesign of the classroom magazines website, including a hands-on UX design.
Led the design for six websites used by teachers in pre-K to second-grade classrooms, including a hands-on UX design.
Designed UX for a new video library product.
Led the design for a new content-rich website about civics for use in classrooms.
Managed a department of UX and UI designers.

Technologies: Axure, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Education Technology (Edtech), Mockups, User Interface (UI)

User Experience Manager

2012 - 2017

McGraw-Hill Education

Acted as the lead UX designer for a redesign of the flagship digital product.
Designed dozens of enhancements to the flagship and other digital products, both customer-facing and internally used interfaces.
Conducted dozens of research studies—from context-gathering interviews to usability studies.
Designed workflows and processes used internally related to agile practices, accessible design, user research, and more.
Managed a department of UX and UI designers.

Technologies: Axure, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, OmniGraffle, Education Technology (Edtech), Mockups, Learning Management Systems (LMS), User Interface (UI)

Director, Interactive Services

2000 - 2011

Carnegie Hall

Led dozens of projects as UX lead, content development lead, and project manager, including redesigns of Carnegiehall.org.
Designed UX and created content strategy for festival minisites.
Designed the UX for ticket purchase flows.
Created the UX design for the first-ever mobile website.
Oversaw the digital marketing production and other aspects of the interactive services department.

Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite, Mockups

Education

1994 - 1997

Master of Arts Degree in Musicology

University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN, USA

1989 - 1991

Master of Music Degree in Music

Juilliard School - New York City, NY, USA

1984 - 1989

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music

Oberlin College - Oberlin, OH, USA

Experience

Sitemaps - 10 years Information Architecture (IA) - 10 years UX Design - 10 years Interaction Design (IxD) - 10 years User Research - 7 years User Journeys - 7 years

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