Jared Crane

Designer in Austin, TX, United States

Member since May 15, 2020

Jared has a master's degree in human computer interaction design and has been working as a designer since 2013. His experience includes working at IBM, Macmillan Learning, and Volusion. Currently, Jared holds two design patents and has been a speaker at SXSW (2017 and 2019). His visionary work has saved companies tremendous resources in time and money while helping to put them on the map for being innovative industry leaders.

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Portfolio

Digital Design

IBM-Project Monocle
- UX Design
- UX Research
- Wireframing
- User Research
- Qualitative Research
- Journey Mapping
- Empathy Mapping
- UX Sketching
- User Testing
- Usability Testing
- Remote Usability Testing
- Prototyping
- Rapid Prototyping
- Paper Prototyping
- Security Audits
- Security Design
- IT Projects
- Cybersecurity
Macmillan Learning: Peer Review
- User Research
- User Experience (UX)
- Higher Education
- User Interviews
- Storyboarding
- Concept Testing
- Wireframing
- Journey Mapping
- Writing & Editing
- Product Vision
- Patents
- Student Engagement
- Archetypes
- Personas
- Education Technology (Edtech)
- Educational Platform Design
Volusion: Shipping Improvements
- Prototyping
- Usability Testing
- User Experience (UX)
- UX Research
- Integration
- eCommerce UX
- Shipping
- Drop Shipping
- Transportation & Shipping
- eCommerce UI
- eCommerce Platforms
Zoosk: Store Redesign
- Online Payments
- Online Dating
- Competitor Analysis & Profiling
- Mood Board Design
- Prototyping
- Motion & Animation Design
- Wireframing
- User Flows
- Web App Design
- Digital Payments
- Conversion-centered Design
Zoosk: Photo Verification
- Online Dating
- User Research
- Quantitative Research
- Qualitative Research
- Competitor Analysis & Profiling
- iOS
- Android
- Prototyping
- User Flows
- UX Sketching
- User Testing
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- iOS UX Design
- iOS UI Design
- iOS App Design
- Android App Design
- Android Design Guidelines
- iOS Design Guidelines
Zoosk: First Messages
- User Research
- Quantitative User Research
- Qualitative Research
- Wireframing
- Prototyping
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- Motion Design
- Communication Design
- Online Dating
- In-app Messaging Systems

Employment

Senior UX Designer
2018 - 2020
Volusion
- Mentored designers on both product and other teams.
- Reintroduced UX methodology and research to the company.
- Redesigned the shipping methods to account for live rate shipping. This was also an extensible design and we worked with specialized shipping partners for them to integrate with Volusion.
- Developed Volusion's behavioral archetypes. Helped start Volusion's design system. Redesigned the site builder experience.
Technologies: Storybook, React, InVision, Sketch, Adobe CC, Figma
Senior UX Designer
2017 - 2018
Macmillan Learning
- Redesigned a writing tool for higher ed students and instructors. Primarily, this tool was for English and writing classes.
- Assisted in the development of behavioral archetypes. Helped develop the design system.
- Acted as lead designer on the platform product where I was managing design efforts to bring all of Macmillan's product together into an integrated, cohesive platform.
- Led vision setting and strategy workshops for the company.
Technologies: Adobe CC, Abstracts, InVision, Sketch
UX Designer
2015 - 2017
IBM
- Led a design project from scratch to a fully vetted prototype that would later become a new product offering from IBM called Monocle.
- Mentored new designers, developers, and product managers on IBM design thinking.
- Redesigned the workflow of creating regulatory data backups on Spectrum Protect.
- Designed cloud data storage options into Spectrum Protect.
- Redesigned various parts of the UI of Spectrum Protect to increase usability.
Technologies: InVision, Sketch
Interaction Designer
2013 - 2015
Zoosk
- Redesigned the store/checkout experience which resulted in a 15% increase in revenue.
- Designed a way for users to submit a video that was used to verify if their pictures were accurate, this project was patented.
- Redesigned the messaging inbox experience to utilize the Zoosk matchmaking algorithm to prioritize messages. This project was patented.
- Designed a companion product for couples to be used after they left Zoosk. This was designed from the ground up.
- Performed extensive motion design work on the Zoosk product across iOS, Android, and web apps.
Technologies: Quartz Composer, Sketch, Adobe CC, OmniGraffle

Education

Master's Degree in Human Computer Interaction Design
2011 - 2013
Indiana University - Bloomington, Indiana, USA

Experience

UX Flows7 years
Wireframing7 years
InVision7 years
UX Research7 years
Sketch7 years
Prototyping7 years
Visual Design4 years
Figma4 years

Tools

Figma
Sketch
InVision

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