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Cassandra Graves CV

UX Designer | UI Designer | Graphic Designer

My portfolio is also available for download!

Available for hire!

Industry Experience

My professional experience working in the user experience, user interface and marketing industries

Product UI / UX Designer

VoPay International Inc | November 2022 - Present

  • Maintain VoPay's brand consistency across web, digital graphics, and enterprise products.

  • Managed multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality work within established deadlines.

  • Led the design of multiple responsive, white-label interfaces in Figma, resulting in significant increases in customers' and partners' revenue and user base.

  • Analyze user feedback to influence future UX updates, ameliorating user concerns and pain points during subsequent development cycles.

  • Conducted internal usability testing with lo-fi prototypes to gather insights on design accessibility and feature understanding.

  • Established an internal component library enabling various departments to access detailed documentation for creating new product experiences

UX Designer

Nokia | September 2021 to April 2022

  • Designed components for Nokia’s Freeform design library in order to create a versatile design system and WCAG accessible components that would be used by all Nokia departments for developing applications.

  • Responsible for maintaining Nokia’s branding and visual identity.

  • Created and updated guideline pages that defined Nokia’s branding requirements for their components and applications for developers.

  • Collaborated and connected with designers, developers and engineers from multiple departments all over the world.

Design Assistant

SFU Public Square | January 2021 to April 2021

  • Created digital advertisements, posters, slideshows and graphics for social media and SFU Public Square’s website to advertise upcoming events and presenters using Adobe Illustrator.

  • Responsible for maintaining SFU’s branding and visual identity.

  • Lead and rebuilt a virtual conference space using Gather 3 days before the event when the initial build crashed.

  • Developed a newsletter template using Campaigner to improve SFU Public Square’s newsletter building efficiency by 50%.

Design Projects

Projects I completed with my main roles while as a student at Simon Fraser University.

Design Evaluator

Remitbee | Spring 2022

Conducted extensive user research, usability testing and heuristic analysis for Remitbee’s mobile application to develop design interventions and insights for Remitbee’s design team.

Identity Designer

Jazzdor Strasbourg Berlin | Summer 2021

Prototyped and designed high fidelity mock-ups of posters, products and websites for (not partnered) Jazzdor Strasbourg Berlin Festival’s new visual design identity to present to mentors and peers.​

Interaction Designer

Moment Energy | Fall 2020

​Devised design solution for a clean-energy startup called Moment Track through conducting user interviews, swot analysis, and drafting user personas, user flow maps, and journey maps.

Certifications

  • UX Foundations: Content Strategy, LinkedIn Learning (Oct 2023)

  • UX Foundations: Accessibility, LinkedIn (Aug 2023)

  • Figma for UX Design, LinkedIn (Oct 2022)

  • Learning Graphic Design: Layouts, LinkedIn (Oct 2022)

  • Interaction Design: Software and Web Design Patterns, LinkedIn (Oct 2022)

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