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GILLIAN BOWES

Digital Designer​
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Digital designer with 4+ years of experience and proven skills in UI design. Masters’ degree in Creative Digital Media & UX specialing in Interaction Design, with a background in graphic design. I believe in constantly challenging myself and learning new skills, with a particular interest in the role psychology plays in the user’s thinking.

EXPERIENCE

Majestic Wine, London - Digital Designer

January 2020  - Present

Responsible for producing designs for the website, emails, social media, and point of sale in the stores. Worked with a small team to collaborate and create an automated system that helped cut down on everyday design tasks by 80%. Collaborated closely with the marketing, web, freelancers, and buying team. Produced seasonal campaigns and helped re-brand the company.

Brereton Jewellers, Dublin - Graphic Web Designer

October 2016  - December 2019

Co-ordinated and updated content for the company’s increasingly active e-commerce website, improving customer satisfaction. Used the CMS (VisualSoft) to edit content and SEOs. Created a social media plan; using Google Business, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest to engage the consumer with the company’s jewellery by using in-house photography and graphics.

Yellowstone, Dublin - Graphic Design Intern

June 2015  - August 2015

Designed print-ready materials and assisted the team with content and image research.

EDUCATION

Interaction Design Foundation -

Psychology of Interaction Design

Technological University Dublin (TUD) -

MSc Creative Digital Media & UX with a specialisation in Interaction Design (Hons)

Technological University Dublin (TUD) -

BA Visual Communications (Design) (Hons)

PROJECT

Dublin Squares - Designer & Developer

‘Dublin Squares’ is an interactive iPad app that tells the stories of Dublin’s grand Georgian Squares and their buildings. This was a two-person project which led to awarding of the Masters’ degree (Hons). I was responsible for the content research, user testing, front-end development (HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, d3.js) and led the UI design and illustrations.

SKILLS

Design: Graphic Design • Photography • Illustration • Typography • Branding • Presentations • Style guides • Wireframes & mockups • Responsive design •

 

Prototyping: Low to high fidelity prototyping • Interactive flow map

 

Research & Testing: User research • Personas • User Flows • Usability testing • Heat map •

 

Coding: Working knowledge of CSS, HTML & SVGs • Basic knowledge of Javascript •

SOFTWARE

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Adobe After Effects

AdobeXD

Premiere Pro

Google Suite

Adobe Email Campaign

Google Analytics

Sketch

Invision

Figma

Trello

Hotjar

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