Jon Hadden
Summary
Senior user experience designer able to produce usable, intuitive interfaces from a theoretical understanding of project requirements, human cognition and interaction design mental models. Accompanied with a strong understanding of typography, color theory and pattern recognition.
Experience
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Senior Visual Engineer at Yahoo!
September 2008 – Present
- Translated requirements and engineering documents into standard information architecture and interaction design deliverables
- Front-end web developer able to take a project from requirements to production working both large team, Agile environments and small team entrepreneur development.
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Experience Designer & Code Monkey at Boxes and Arrows
March 2007 – Present
- Produce semantic, standards based XHTML and CSS to provide a consistent look and feel throughout the user experience and Liquid, Ruby on Rails template development environment.
- Produce cross-browser, standards based CSS and XHTML prototypes, information architecture and optimized graphical elements wherever needed.
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Experience Designer at Assurant, Inc.
December 2006 – September 2008
- Designed and created rich user interface mockups to communicate between developers and non-technical stakeholders.
- Translated requirements and engineering documents into standard information architecture and interaction design deliverables.
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Lead Web Design & Development at Echo Creative, L.L.C.
October 2005 – December 2006
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Web Designer at Digital Array
November 2003 – August 2005
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Web Developer at Language Solutions, L.L.C.
December 2001 – November 2003
Education
- Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Web and Communication Design 2004 – 2006
- University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Applied Economics 2000 – 2004
Qualifications
User experience designer with a strong understanding of web standards implemented within the software development lifecycle. Theoretical understanding and analysis of requirements, trends and developments in the user experience design and Web development industries as well as practical experience designing products and processes in both traditional waterfall and Agile development environments.
Technical Proficiencies:
XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, JSON, JSTL
Tools:
Pencil & Paper, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Omnigraffle, Adobe Acrobat, Visio, Microsoft Office 2007, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA
Honors and Awards
- CUA (Certified Usability Analyst) Human Factors International – Sept. 2007
- ITIL Certified (IT Service Manager) New Horizons – Jan. 2007