Morgan Carter
Designer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Member since March 24, 2016
Morgan is first and foremost a creative problem solver. He has spent eight years helping small businesses and startups turn complex ideas into intuitive, useful products. The products he has helped create have been used by Amazon, NASA, McDonalds, Nike, Disney, NVidia, Ford, and more. Combining his extensive design skills with strong, creative development skills allows him to deliver the full designed experience, not an approximation.
Morgan is now available for hire
Employment
- Product Designer2015 - PRESENTFreelance
- Provided various freelance services to international clients, including UI/UX design, product design, and front-end development.
Technologies: Photoshop, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Balsamiq, Illustrator - Design Mentor2015 - PRESENTBloc
- Taught and mentored students from various career backgrounds who aspired to become designers.
- Taught common methodologies and best practices for both design and web development.
- Mentored students to achieve career success.
Technologies: Photoshop, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Balsamiq, Illustrator - Designer2014 - 2015Deputy
- Led a massive product overhaul, unifying the previous 6 years of product development on Web, iOS, and Android.
- Designed and developed a new feature allowing users to integrate Deputy with a number of other applications via Zapier.
- Redesigned the marketing website with focus on the landing page.
Technologies: Photoshop, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Balsamiq, Illustrator - Designer2013 - 2014Stackla
- Handled all design-related issues as sole designer in this early-stage startup.
- Designed and developed the public-facing social media displays for all devices - phones, computers, TVs, and massive displays. These displays have been used by the Commonwealth Games and Michelle Obama's "Better Make Room" Campaign.
- Designed and developed the UI of the admin platform that allowed clients to manage and curate the content that was displayed publicly.
- Carried out user testing to improve the UX of the admin platform.
- Designed and created marketing materials: the marketing website, print materials, and an outsourced video.
Technologies: Photoshop, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Balsamiq, Illustrator - Tutorial Demonstrator2012 - 2012University of Sydney
- Taught 1st year Design Computing students as part of the Design Programming course.
Technologies: Processing - Test Analyst/Software Developer2011 - 2012IBM
- Led a team as Test Manager.
- Tested software for the Australian Broadband Network.
Technologies: Rational Functional Tester
Education
- Bachelor of Design Computing degree in Human Interaction Design2009 - 2012University of Sydney - Sydney, Australia
Experience
- Adobe Photoshop13 years
- User Interface (UI)9 years
- UI Design9 years
- UX Design9 years
- HTML8 years
- Balsamiq Mockups8 years
- Responsive7 years
- Sass4 years
Tools
- Adobe Photoshop
- Balsamiq Mockups
