Susanne Aubert
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Lisbon, Portugal
Toptal member since March 21, 2022
Susanne is a digital product designer with extensive experience in product design, lean UX, interactive media, user experience design, and front-end development. With a professional obsession for outstanding design, extraordinary attention to detail, and assertive communication skills, Susanne has a strong creative and imaginative flair, as well as a rational understanding of the commercial product, directorial decisions, and tight deadlines.
Portfolio
Work Experience
UI Designer
Ivy Clinicians, Inc.
- Designed a better onboarding experience for clinicians to increase the chances of filling out the information needed to get them successfully hired.
- Worked with the marketing team to create clinician-targeted ads for Ivy's social media channels to increase their reach.
- Redesigned the website to have a more minimal, clean, and straightforward UX experience.
Product Design Consultant
Lantum
- Designed and launched a product to manage medical leaves, which enabled National Health Service (NHS) doctors in secondary care to significantly improve their workload management.
- Conducted extensive user testing every month with the Lantum Digital Fellows, a group of junior doctors.
- Collaborated with doctors and senior-level stakeholders to set requirements and timeframes and plan feature roadmaps.
- Worked in a high-paced Agile environment with a multidisciplinary team of developers, product, and marketing professionals.
- Improved and built upon the existing brand identity components like colors, typography, icons, spacing, grids, form elements, and other assets.
- Created a sophisticated rolling rota software feature to increase rota creation efficiency.
- Designed creative concepts for digital marketing campaigns across mobile and web.
Lead UX/UI Designer
Cognitive Battery
- Worked closely with marketing and product to develop a cognitive ability testing game for recruitment and career advice.
- Conducted heuristic usability analysis of the competition and existing products to unveil improvement potential.
- Gathered information from user interviews and stakeholders to plan and execute product roadmaps.
- Created high-fidelity prototypes and animations to guide developers through complex ideas and user flows.
- Designed the UI for the mobile app and had documented design decisions.
Lead UI Designer
Altar
- Implemented the look and feel of their new brand identity to their website.
- Designed high-fidelity prototypes and animations to guide developers through complicated user flows and ideas.
- Created handover documentation for the developers and monitored project development for implementation quality control.
- Designed the user flow, so the customer journey ends on an incentive to book a call.
Lead UX Designer
Kestor
- Played a key role while in charge of the UX design of an MVP for a career mode add-on of a flight simulator.
- Interviewed and analyzed user research to implement solutions for the features.
- Coordinated with product and game design to ensure high-quality standards.
- Led UX research, competitive audits, and heuristic user evaluations.
- Worked throughout the project with the development team to ensure that high-quality standards were met.
- Designed user testing prototypes based on persona research and analytics.
UX/UI Designer
Made Abroad
- Worked with clients across multiple industries like higher education, startup consulting, artificial intelligence, and eCommerce.
- Designed a website for an educational organization that boosted their traffic and engagement by 70% compared with their previous year.
- Created the new design of a tech startup website, which resulted in a 62% increase in downloaded resources.
- Redesigned an eCommerce experience raising the CSAT score by 79%.
Education
Master's Degree in Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games
Berklee College of Music - Valencia, Spain
Bachelor of Music Degree in Popular Music Performance
The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance - London, UK
Certifications
Google UX Design Professional Certificate
Google via Coursera
The Complete Web Developer Course 2.0
Udemy
Skills
Tools
Figma, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Sketch, InVision, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Marvel, Miro
Platforms
iOS, Webflow, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Languages
HTML5, CSS4, JavaScript
Industry Expertise
Insurance
Other
UX Design, User Experience (UX), iOS UI Design, Mobile UX, Prototyping, Usability Heuristics, Product Design, User Personas, Microinteraction Design, UX Research, User Onboarding, User Flows, Digital Product Design, User Research, Heuristic Review, Low-fidelity Mockups, Mockups, UX Audits, UI Audits, Web App Design, Wireframing, iOS App Design, Personas, User Stories, UI Design, User Interface (UI), iOS UX Design, Mobile UI Design, User Testing, Sitemaps, User Journeys, Design Leadership, Virtual Instrument Design, jQuery, Web Design, Design Systems, Startups, Tech Sales, Product Development, Finance, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Investment Banking, Higher Education, Responsive, Music Production, Game Design, Task Analysis, Information Architecture (IA), Annotated Wireframes, Educational Games, User Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Interactive Prototypes, Presentation Design, Branding, Style Guides, UI Style Guides, Typography, Healthcare Services, Ideation, Remote User Testing, Startup Consulting, Web Consulting, Dashboard Design, Web Dashboards, Responsive Design, eCommerce, B2B, Website Redesign, Health IT, Healthcare IT, Healthcare Management Systems, HR Tools, Workers, High-fidelity Mockups, High-fidelity Prototypes, Websites, Landing Page Design
Experience
- HTML5 - 5 years
- CSS4 - 5 years
- User Experience (UX) - 4 years
- Responsive Web Design (RWD) - 4 years
- Interactive Prototypes - 4 years
- Product Design - 4 years
- UX Research - 4 years
- Microinteraction Design - 4 years
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