Louisa Armbrust

Designer

New York, NY, United States

Member since May 23, 2018

Louisa is an experienced UX designer and researcher in product and service design for health, education, business intelligence, and other industries. She is skilled in UX design, user research, concept and strategy, information architecture, usability testing, and visual design. Louisa cares about why people do things, how they can do those things better, and what we can all do to care for each other, have more fun, and get more out of life.

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Louisa Armbrust

Designer

New York, NY, United States

Member since May 23, 2018

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Portfolio

Digital Design

Mobile App for a Cannabis Lab
- Cannabis
- Patient Services
- User Research
- Usability Testing
- UX Strategy
- MVP Design
- Wireframing
- Competitor Analysis & Profiling
- Healthcare
- Mobile
- Medical Cannabis
- Task Flows
- Web App Design
- UI Design
- Paper Prototyping
- User Validation Testing
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Rapid Prototyping
- Personas
Ethics and Compliance Training Tools
- Learning Management Systems (LMS)
- Enterprise SaaS
- SaaS Design
- Internationalization
- UX Research
- Education Management Systems
- UX Leadership
- Design Leadership
- UX Strategy
- Wireframing
- Paper Prototyping
- Remote User Testing
- Responsive UX Design
- Mobile-first Design
- Responsive Web Apps
- Qualitative User Research
- User-centered Design (UCD)
- Mobile UI/UX Design
- Web App Design
- Personas
- User Roles
- Heuristic Evaluation
- User Research
Communication Tool for Compliance Officers
- Communication Design
- Discovery
- Sprints
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Rapid Interactive Prototyping
- Remote User Testing
- Research
- UX Research
- Wireframing
- Visual Design
- User Testing
- Web Applications
- SaaS Design
- Qualitative User Research
- User-centered Design (UCD)
- UX Strategy
- Concept Models
- User Journey Maps
- Enterprise SaaS
- User Research
- UX Design
Live Chat with Beauty Experts for Fortune 500 Beauty Brand
- Live Chat
- Competitor Analysis & Profiling
- UX Strategy
- Presentations
- Wireframing
- Luxury Industry
- Mobile UX
- eCommerce
- Customer Support
- Qualitative User Research
- User-centered Design (UCD)
- Heuristic Evaluation
- User Research
Business Intelligence Web Application for Industry
- Business Intelligence Architecture
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- CRM Design
- Benchmark Analysis
- Database Design
- Qualitative User Research
- User-centered Design (UCD)
- UX Strategy
- Wireframing
- User Testing
- Remote User Testing
- Visual Design
- User Task Flows
- User Journey Maps
- Responsive UX Design
- Concept Models
- Heuristic Evaluation
- User Roles
- Personas
- Enterprise SaaS
- Web App Design
- User Research
- UX Design
Education Web Application for a Non-profit
- Qualitative User Research
- User-centered Design (UCD)
- UXPin
- Design Leadership
- Wireframing
- UI Design
- Visual Design
- Paper Prototyping
- Remote User Testing
- User Task Flows
- User Journey Maps
- Responsive UX Design
- Web App Design
- Heuristic Evaluation
- User Roles
- Personas
- Education
- K-12 Education
- Learning Management Systems (LMS)
- Gamification
- User Research
- UX Design

Employment

Principal User Experience Designer and Researcher
2015 - PRESENT
L3A UX Studio
- Co-founded L3A UX Studio with one other designer.
- Provided research, strategy, and design services to a wide range of clients. Recent projects include a patient data-collection app for a cannabis testing laboratory, the overhaul of a suite of enterprise apps and SaaS products for an ethics and compliance training company, and a LiveChat solution for a Fortune 500 beauty company.
Technologies: Adobe XD, Balsamiq, OmniGraffle, Invision, Sketch, Zeplin, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Studio, HTML, CSS, JIRA, Framer.js, Principle, Javascript
Information Architect and User Experience Designer Consultant
2009 - 2015
Armbrust Design
- Worked for clients including rock bands, a social network-based education company, a pharmaceutical ad agency, and non-profit arts groups.
- Created websites, tablet-based digital sales applications, and web applications.
- Designed digital assets for ad campaigns.
- Produced designs and oversaw the production of t-shirts, novelty items, and other merchandise for a variety of campaigns, from band concert tours and album releases to corporate conference booths.
Technologies: Adobe XD, Balsamiq, OmniGraffle, InVision, Sketch, Zeplin, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Studio, HTML, CSS, JIRA, Framer.js, Principle, JavaScript
Lead User Experience Designer
2012 - 2013
CFY
- Served as the Information Architect, User Experience Designer and Graphic Designer covering all of the design needs relating to the free online education platform powermylearning.org.
- Promoted to Lead User Experience Designer and Art Director in 2013, responsible for creating and leading a design team in the complete overhaul of the web application.
Technologies: Balsamiq, Omnigraffle, Adobe Suite, JIRA
Web Designer and Art Director
2010 - 2012
Paracadute
- Created websites, banners and ad campaigns for the record label’s bands including OK Go, Lavender Diamond, Pyramids, and Infinity Shred.
Technologies: Adobe Suite, Omnigraffle & Balsamiq, Basecamp
Art Director
2008 - 2009
Scholastic
- Contributed to an initiative between Scholastic and the U.S. Census 2010 to create classroom materials in both English and Spanish targeted to meet national education standards.
Technologies: Adobe Suite, Dreamweaver

Education

Master's degree in Fine Art
2000 - 2001
Goldsmiths College - London, United Kingdom
Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art
1999 - 2000
Goldsmiths College - London, United Kingdom
Bachelor's degree in Studio Art & French
1990 - 1994
Colorado College - Colorado

Experience

UI Design11 years
UX Design11 years
UX Strategy8 years
Qualitative User Research8 years
Mobile UX6 years
Responsive UX Design6 years
Web App Design6 years

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