Amsterdam Binnenstad en Oostelijk Havengebied, North Holland Province, Netherlands
Work:
Senior UX Designer @ Booking.com
Freelance Designer @ Above Function
UX Designer @ Booking.com
Education:
New Media Creation @
Dumfries and Galloway College
About:
I create aesthetically pleasing web sites that are widely usable and accessible.
Senior UX Designer @ From October 2015 to Present (3 months) Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsFreelance Designer @ Freelance Web and UX Design for clients ranging from new startups to establish businesses (small/medium clients).
Services included UX Reviews, UX Design, Interaction Design, Complete Web Design, Web Site Management
I create aesthetically pleasing web sites that are widely usable and accessible.
Senior UX Designer @ From October 2015 to Present (3 months) Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsFreelance Designer @ Freelance Web and UX Design for clients ranging from new startups to establish businesses (small/medium clients).
Services included UX Reviews, UX Design, Interaction Design, Complete Web Design, Web Site Management (updates), UI Design, Social Media, Small Development Work, Blogging and light Digital Marketing. From December 2008 to Present (7 years 1 month) UX Designer @ Booking.com is the world’s leading accommodation website. We serve millions of customers all over the world from our headquarters in the center of Amsterdam where we’re looking for User Experience experts to join our front-end team of designers, developers & researchers.
My core responsibility is to combine my knowledge and expertise about UX Design & the goals of the business to deliver a world-class user experience to our diverse, loyal user-base. Working alongside developers, product owners, and fellow designers in taking a data-led approach to UX improvements. From November 2012 to October 2015 (3 years) Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsUX Designer @ User Experience Designer for Schuh.
Analysing customer behaviour and carrying out user testing to improve the user experience and accessibility of the site and mobile platforms.
Ideation of new projects and features to push online and mobile platforms forward.
Taking care of general front end development and user journeys across the platforms.
A/B Testing to improve the conversion and measure the changes I made as a design to make sure they solved user issues. From January 2011 to November 2012 (1 year 11 months) Web Designer @ As the only web designer I took complete control over the web site design for most of the clients, working on complete redesign, creating new features and improving existing sites across various industries from interior design companies to multi-million pound property administrators to solve user needs while meeting business goals. From April 2010 to January 2011 (10 months) Salisbury, United Kingdom
HND Web Design & Development, Web Design, Development, SEO, Client Side Scripting, Database Design @ Glasgow Central College From 2008 to 2010 New Media Creation @ Dumfries and Galloway College From 2007 to 2008 Grant McAllister is skilled in: User Experience, User Interface Design, Mobile Experience, eCommerce, Web Design, Social Media, Photoshop, Web Analytics, Web Projects, User Research, HTML, CSS, E-commerce, Mobile Devices, Agile Methodolgy