Top Designer in Vancouver, Canada: Stewart Pressney

Employment

Web and Technical Content Developer
2020 - PRESENT
Altium
- Designed and developed education.upverter.com to help schools teach STEM courses in their remote classrooms.
- Designed and developed the upverter.com marketing page to help rebrand and pivot the web-based CAD tool.
- Maintained a complex Magento 2 storefront at gumstix.com.
- Managed and mentored groups of co-op students in design and digital marketing on a semesterly basis, up to two team members at once.
Technologies: Agile UX, Sketch, Figma, Branding, Art Direction, Content Management Systems (CMS), Social Marketing, Magento, Web App Design
Shopify Developer
2020 - 2021
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
- Developed an Etsy-like marketplace for student art sale platform.
- Sold over $40,000+ in the first seven days of sale.
- Onboarded 200+ users onto platform, organized 600+ artworks using tag method.
Technologies: Shopify, Figma
UX Consultant
2019 - 2019
Akinox Health Technologies
- Helped redesign platform for remote eConsult in the province of Quebec Canada.
- Provided HTML prototypes for numerous screens in the platform.
- Provided CSS style guide.
- Provided journey maps for multiple application trajectories including eConsult, patient transfer, and apnea consult.
- Streamlined navigation and form layout.
Technologies: Whimsical, Sketch, Webflow, CSS, HTML
UX Consultant
2019 - 2019
ICAN Notes EHR
- Designed a platform for therapists and behavioral intervention specialists to track and document patient history.
- Generated an HTML and CSS style guide for the development team that provided a concise set of elements to develop the product.
- Provided information architecture for application layout and navigation.
- Provided InVision prototypes to accompany stories documented in JIRA as the application's build progressed.
- Helped streamline signup and onboarding with full adherence to HIPPA guidelines.
Technologies: Webflow, InVision, Sketch
Senior Interaction Designer
2018 - 2019
ScopeMedia
- Built scopemedia.com using webflow.
- Branded Simile AI Platform for Shopify and ran growth strategy, including paid ads and Google analytics.
- Designed the UX for an AI-powered fashion recommendation kiosk for retail spaces.
- Designed the UX design an AI-powered fashion recommendation app for iPad.
- Designed ta rade show booth, business cards, and teeshirts.
Technologies: Webflow, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, WordPress, InVision, Sketch
UX Consultant
2018 - 2018
CBRE
- Helped provide proof of concept prototypes to Hana Workspaces team.
- Created journey maps for multiple use cases in a co-working environment.
- Created HTML prototype to tap into Nexudus API to test meeting room booking system.
- Used CSS to skin live Nexudus CMS to CBRE branding for stakeholder meetings.
- Provided the style guide for Nexudus CMS components.
Technologies: nexudus, Sketch, CSS, HTML
UX Design | Front-end Developer
2018 - 2018
Caera Health
- Designed and helped to implement UI for patient support platform for mental health professionals.
- Completed competitive analysis of patient engagement tools and illustrated competitive landscape.
- Mapped customer journey throughout the care plan.
- Worked with clinical advisors to refine scheduling and workshop user flows.
- Worked to facilitate A/B test-driven design process.
- Built company's website on the WordPress framework.
Technologies: UI, SCSS, React, InVision, Sketch
UX Designer and WordPress Developer
2017 - 2018
myMedEd
- Helped to build a new brand and WordPress website for the company.
- Built four registration websites for medical education conferences using WordPress for myMedEd's clients.
- Developed a new logo and brand guidelines for the client.
Technologies: Sketch, WordPress
Website Designer
2016 - 2017
Zone'in Programs inc.
- Conducted UX Strategy session helped to define the future for Zone'in Programs.
- Created content strategy that organized 400 pages of static content, into customer 9 conversion streams for their products and services.
- Designed website icons.
- Wrote concise copy to renovate their website.
- Developed a WordPress and Woocommerce website.
Technologies: WooCommerce, WordPress
UX Design Strategist
2016 - 2017
Reliq Health Technologies
- Developed proof of concept prototypes on a weekly basis for team review for IOS Android and Web.
- Collected round table feedback and implemented changes to prototypes on weekly basis.
- Strategized file hand off and workflow for efficiency in product development lifecycle.
- Acted as "product & features expert" during product development process.
- Conducted user feedback session with clients during product development.
Technologies: InVision, Sketch
UX Designer
2016 - 2016
Noratek solutions
- UX Audit of inspection & survey application.
- Wireframed numerous concept for mobile app.
- Developed a staged update strategy that first build a live wireframe MVP for testing, and later to a fully polished UI.
- Designed Icons for use in their platform.
- Developed typographic style with a focus on readability and accessibility to fulfill user needs.
Technologies: InVision, Sketch
Website Designer
2015 - 2016
Forest and Waves
- Advised CEO on options for rebuilding eCommerce Store.
- Created content strategy for blog and 200+ products.
- Developed Wordpress + Woocommerce online store.
- Helped CO Strategist digital marketing strategy for Facebook ads.
Technologies: WordPress, InVision, Sketch
UX Design Researcher
2014 - 2016
ECUAD Health Design Lab
- Collaborated with numerous health authorities across BC to identify touch points that could be improved in an effort to increase patient satisfaction.
- Led prototyping efforts for interaction design projects.
- Presented to more than thirty feedback and patient advocacy groups, and engaged them in design research workshops.
- Designed of a simple survey tool that would display satisfaction results to staff members.
- Led a design research seminar with 150 clinicians and patient advocates, then collating the research into a presentation outlining key concepts with prototypes in 24 hours.
- Conducted literary review of patient centered care initiatives.
- Contributed to annual publication delivered to senior project stakeholders.
- Developed concepts for acceptance testing within hospitals in Vancouver, Canada.
- Managed the development a dynamic feedback app, with a team I assembled online.
Technologies: Ethnographic Studies, InVision, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch

Other Experience

A/B Testing UX for Component-based Frameworks (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/designers/ux/ab-testing-ux
UI components are about modularity and reusability. A/B testing can be employed very effectively during a lean product development process to test components that make up an application’s UI.
Experience Is Everything – The Ultimate UX Guide (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/designers/ux/the-ultimate-ux-guide
UX design attempts to deliver the right solution, in the right way, at the right time and delight people when they use a product. This comprehensive UX guide walks through the various methods, tools, and techniques that make up the process.

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