Benjamin Craib.

bencraib@gmail.com

Summary

I am a passionate and driven Product Designer. I am focused on designing visually-engaging and meaningful user interfaces. I thoroughly enjoy problem solving, making it my business to understand where user frustrations lie, and using logical design practices to establish fit-for-purpose outcomes.


Technical

UX Design

User Research, Competitor Analysis, Information Architecture, Wireframing, Testing & Iteration

UI Design

Branding, Style Guides, High-Fidelity Prototyping, Interaction & Animation Design, Documentation

Web Development

HTML, CSS, Bootstrap & Webflow

Career

Head Full of Heart

Graduate User Experience Designer

Working closely in an agile framework with both software development and business development teams on a wide range of clients from startup to large-scale organisations and government departments.

→ Built a proprietary design system to facilitate swift prototyping and development

→ Empathetically defining problems with design thinking

→ Wireframing and hi-fidelity prototyping for agile development of new product features

→ User persona generation to encourage a shared vision of core users

→ Curation of agile epics, features, and user stories

→ State machine and user flow diagramming to assist in visualising technical requirements

→ Quality assurance testing various environments for bugs, uplifts, and regressions

→ Managed an Angular conceptualization of a legacy application to assist in stakeholder buy-in

Ben Craib Design

Freelance UX/UI Design & Web Development

→ Website auditing in overall user experience and accessibility

→ Web design and user interface design

→ Branding, style guide, and logowork

Department of Treasury and Finance

Accounts Payable Officer

→ Optimised work flows through accurate and efficient processing of high volumes of invoices daily

→ Provided fast, customer focused advice through email and Basware audit trails

→ Collaborated with co-workers and communicated effectively with Senior Management

→ Drove for results through personal and team measured KPI's

→ Took ownership and displayed accountability in prioritisation of tasks to meet deadlines

Education

Bachelor of Arts: History & Global Politics and Japanese

University of South Australia

UI/UX Design Certificate

University of Adelaide