Jennifer Armstrong
Designer
Denver, CO, United States
Member since November 7, 2015
With over 12 years of experience, Jen has spent the last 5 as a partner and creative director at a quickly growing web design agency. Her experience is in web, print, and branding design, and she has been acknowledged by the American Advertising Awards, winning over 30 ADDYs in her career. Jen is an over communicator and has worked on teams of all sizes, ranging from 2 to 40 people. Forward thinking and detail oriented, she lives for design.
Jennifer is now available for hire
Portfolio
Employment
- Owner and Designer2015 - PRESENTArrive Design
- Completed contract UX/UI design work for a web design agency, where I worked on a variety of projects for clients in various industries.
- Led the branding and creative direction for an ongoing series of webinars and online classes for a company that works with individuals in the film industry.
- Consulted and provided creative direction for a small company with a remote creative team.
- Designed the website and custom home page animation for an arcade bar and lounge.
Technologies: Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, InVision, Asana - Partner and Creative Director2010 - 2015liquidfish
- Grew the company from 2 to 20 people, which made it the 22nd fastest growing company in the city this year.
- Oversaw and managed the creative team in addition to daily business operations.
- Wore many hats, taking on the roll of UI/UX designer, information architect, print designer, rookie animator, and front-end developer, on occasion.
- Won best of show for digital at the ADDYs for a downtown restaurant website.
- Developed many products, eCommerce websites, intranet systems, business to business websites, and client facing websites.
Technologies: Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, InDesign, InVision, After Effects, HTML, CSS - Interactive Designer and Front-End Developer2009 - 2010Ghost
- Worked as the first web designer at a leading creative agency and performed the work of an entire web department while there.
- Assisted with print and branding work when needed.
- Designed a project management system so the agency could keep track of clients and open, plus archived, jobs.
- Created a variety of websites from start to finish with clients in almost every industry.
- Coded websites in PHP for clients that didn't need a CMS and developed custom sites, without templates, using Squarespace and WordPress for clients that needed a CMS.
Technologies: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, HTML, PHP, CSS, JQuery, Squarespace, Coda, Wordpress - Mulitmedia Designer2005 - 2009OPUBCO
- Began as a multimedia designer before being put in charge of all niche publications , such as N Style, Look at OKC, and additional smaller publications.
- Moved to the web department in late 2006 and started working on web design and development.
- Worked as the sole IA/UX/UI designer for Wimgo, the poor man's Yelp for Oklahoma City.
- Redesigned NewsOK.com, the main news source for Oklahoma, as part of a team.
- Designed and developed websites for various clients that we obtained through our advertising department.
Technologies: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, OmniGraffle, Flash, ActionScript 2.0
Education
- Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design (Magna Cum Laude)2001 - 2005University of Central Oklahoma - Edmond, Oklahoma
Experience
- Branding12 years
- Logo Design12 years
- Web Design8 years
- UI Design8 years
- CSS8 years
- HTML8 years
- UX Design8 years
