Katie Swanson
Visual & UX Designer
Seattle, WA, USAWork Experience
Microsoft
Senior Product Designer, SharePoint
August 2018
- Present
Redmond, Washington, United States
Amazon.com
Visual Designer, Amazon Restaurants
Collaborate with marketing, product, sales, and account management to create awareness of Amazon Restaurants and to drive new and repeat business.
July 2016
- Present
Seattle, Washington, United States
Amazon.com
Visual Designer, Consumables/Private Label
Lead content-related solutions across Consumables programs to deliver intuitive and compelling designs that start with the customer in mind and that are elevated based on an understanding and response to performance data, metrics, and usability studies. Responsibilities include concepting and execution of design work, receiving and incorporating internal client feedback, and maintaining consistency across media integrated campaigns while crafting content and customer experiences that drive results and raise the bar on creative standards.
January 2016
- July 2016
Washington, United States
Amazon.com
UX Designer, Consumbles
Customer-obsessed designer that focuses on making the complicated simple and beautiful across all platforms and devices. Challenged with anticipating, envisioning and designing strategies for Amazon's e-commerce business that raise the bar and enhance Amazon's status as the world's most customer-centric company.
January 2015
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Washington, United States
Amazon.com
UX Design Intern
Amazon Music
Conceived, designed and crafted amazing experiences for the customer facing desktop music platform. Work with platform lead designer to introduce Prime Stations and the new mini player - the numero uno customer request. Worked within an iterative design process while assisting design team in research, brainstorming, ideation, and delivery of final assets and user experience guidelines.
read more here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1001226941
Conceived, designed and crafted amazing experiences for the customer facing desktop music platform. Work with platform lead designer to introduce Prime Stations and the new mini player - the numero uno customer request. Worked within an iterative design process while assisting design team in research, brainstorming, ideation, and delivery of final assets and user experience guidelines.
read more here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1001226941
June 2014
- September 2014
San Francisco, California, United States
Groupon
Product Designer - Contract
Created and iterated on assets that reflect the brand, enforce the language, and inject simplicity and life into the new Groupon Merchant mobile app. Established guidelines for both national and international markets for both the iOS and Android interfaces.
March 2014
- June 2014
Savannah, Georgia, United States
Groupon
Visual Design Intern
Collaborated with senior product designer, engineers, and developers to design and develop new interface to be utilized by Groupon merchants. Responsible for providing visual comps, asset deliverables, design guidelines and presentation materials for Deal Builder interface. Other projects included assisting in usability testing, visuals for mapping the product development cycle within Groupon, as well as Merchant OS/Breadcrumb presentation materials.
June 2013
- September 2013
Palo Alto, California, United States
Eat It And Like It
Graphic Designer
Responsible for production of all graphics, print and web related for Savannah’s two–time Emmy nominated TV show. Manage client website providing design, maintenance, email marketing campaigns and e-newsletters. Conceptualized and designed sales deck and marketing materials, branding and identity, promotional and advertising graphics, collateral materials, t-shirts, rack cards, subsidiary logos and motion graphics.
January 2013
- April 2014
Savannah, Georgia, United States
Savannah Bee Company
Graphic Design Intern
January 2014
- April 2014
Savannah, Georgia, United States
Hewlett-Packard
Graphic Designer/SCAD Collaborative Learning
Worked with diversified team of students to meet the partner’s specific needs and goals by targeting demographic groups, solving design strategies, as well as user testing and rapid prototyping. Lead graphic designer providing graphic standards for presentation, printed, interface and video mediums. Designed and led creative direction for final client deliverables including process book and presentation materials. Work obtained under one year non-disclosure agreement.
January 2013
- March 2013
Savannah, Georgia, United States
The Coca-Cola Company
Graphic Design/SCAD Collaborative Learning
Collaborated with an Industrial Design student to develop proprietary package design solutions for a subsidy of a major beverage company. Fostered designs from initial concept exploration, to 3-D comps, to finished production pieces. Designed final process book deliverable, compiling twelve working teams’ concepts. Work obtained under one year non-disclosure agreement.
January 2013
- May 2013
Savannah, Georgia, United States
Greydogdsgn
Freelance Graphic Design
Consult with small businesses and individuals to build effective visual solutions, both in a print and web medium. Work includes publication and print design, web and interface design, with a specialty in typography and brand development.
April 2008
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Savannah, Georgia, United States
Education
Savannah College Of Art And Design (SCAD)
BFA Graphic Design, Interaction Design Minor
Dean’s List // Summa Cum Laude
September 2012
- November 2014
Savannah, Georgia, United States
Trident Technical College
Associate Applied Science – Digital Media
AAS DIGITAL MEDIA
CERTIFICATION WEB DESIGN
CERTIFICATION MULTIMEDIA
CERTIFICATION COMM GRAPHICS
May 2012 // Summa Cum Laude
CERTIFICATION WEB DESIGN
CERTIFICATION MULTIMEDIA
CERTIFICATION COMM GRAPHICS
May 2012 // Summa Cum Laude
August 2008
- May 2012
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Oakland Community College
Buisness Administration
August 2000
- May 2003
Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States
Awards
Skills
Adobe After Effects,
Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe Indesign,
Adobe Lightroom,
Adobe Photoshop,
Adobe Suite CC,
Agile Process,
Art Direction,
Art Direction,
Branding,
Content,
Copy,
CSS,
Graphic Design,
HTML,
Ideation,
Infographics,
Interface Design,
Logo,
Marketing,
Production,
Prototyping,
Sketch,
Typography,
Typography,
UI,
Ux,
Visual Design,
Webflow,
Website Design,
Wireframing,
WordPress,