Brandon Rukin

Designer in New York City, NY, United States

Member since March 15, 2016

Brandon is a product designer with more than five years of experience designing enterprise web applications for top Fortune 500 companies and fast-paced startups. He is an expert at analyzing user interfaces, identifying areas of improvement, and developing solutions to enhance application usability, user flows, information architecture, and visual design. Brandon is highly self-motivated and passionate about making things easy to use.

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Portfolio

Digital Design

Logix Web App
- Sketch
- InVision
- Google Material Design
- Chart.js
Fusion Redesign
- User Testing
- UX Research
- HTML
- CSS
- Java
- Eclipse IDE
Valin eCommerce
EfficaSee App
- Responsive
- Product Design
- Business Analysis
- Wireframing
CodePen Development
- Front-end
- HTML5
- CSS3
- Flexbox
- PostCSS
- Sass
- Less

Employment

Freelance UI/UX Designer
2016 - PRESENT
Self-employed
- Worked on a variety of projects designing large-scale enterprise web applications.
- Led the design process, identified problems and opportunities to improve the product, and provided insights and rationales on proposed solutions.
- Utilized Sketch and InVision as design tools to create wireframes, mockups, and comprehensive user flows to communicate requirements and build new product features.
- Created style guides and defined design systems to build a coherent look and feel across entire applications.
- Worked closely with engineering teams to generate solutions that maximize usability while minimizing technical complexity.
Technologies: Jira, Slack, CSS, HTML, InVision, Sketch
Requirements Analyst
2014 - 2016
Nationwide Insurance
- Worked as a requirements analyst and UI designer for a corporate enterprise sales application.
- Engaged in discovery and elicitation of business needs and system requirements.
- Enhanced UI visual design with redesigned interface elements, typography, icons, and color.
- Organized the front-end code base, markup readability, and implemented UI development standards.
- Documented the design changes and built an application UI component library.
Technologies: jQuery, CSS, HTML, Axure
User Experience Designer
2012 - 2014
VisionFoundry
- Worked as the lead user experience designer for the enhancement of an eCommerce website.
- Planned and conducted user research activities and stakeholder analysis to understand user needs.
- Created wireframes, mockups, and prototypes in Axure for communicating requirements to the developer.
- Implemented a revised site architecture solution to improve efficiency for filtering more than 10,000 products.
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Axure

Education

Master's Degree in Information Systems Technology
2012 - 2014
The George Washington University - Washington, D.C., USA
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
2008 - 2012
The George Washington University - Washington, D.C., USA

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
JUNE 2015 - JUNE 2019
Scrum Alliance

Experience

Enterprise SaaS8 years
Prototyping8 years
User Interface (UI)8 years
Responsive Web Apps8 years
Mockups8 years
Product Design6 years
Agile6 years
Figma3 years

Tools

Figma

Location

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