Highly motivated UX designer with excellent organisational ability and a proven track record of reliability and commitment. Excellent project management, interpersonal and communication skills. Thrives in challenging positions, which utilise existing skills while allowing further opportunities for development.

UX Designer @ • User Research and Testing: Gathering requirements for projects based on interviews with clients and users, hierarchical task analysis, card sorting and other techniques. Testing prototypes, interviewing users and making changes as required. • Wireframes and Design: Wireframing based on requirements gathered in testing phase and working through to design phase. Referencing UI best practices and existing design patterns. Designing for both desktop and mobile. Creating both backend applications and content management systems as well as front facing websites for clients. • Support: Generating UX toolkit and documentation to support clients after project delivery. • Team: Working in an lean environment in close working relationship with developers so that tasks are completed quickly. Giving workshops to colleagues on storyboarding and software presentation. • Software: Using programmes such as Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Omnigraffle, Axure, MAMP Pro. From May 2014 to Present (1 year 8 months) Creative Designer @ • Lead designer responsible for packaging, website, in store signage, catalogues, newspaper advertisements and product photography. • Responsible for email marketing and sending out offers and information regularly to over 150,000 subscribers. • Liaising closely with buyers and suppliers to gather die-cuts, samples and photographs of products to design packaging. • General product photography for both our website (set up in photo studio) and location photo shoots. Managing and styling on all location shoots. • Creating bespoke web pages within our website for buying guides and offer pages on Venda platform using HTML & CSS. • Assistant team leader in web team. Responsible for managing web team and delegating tasks to them. • Training in new staff for packaging design as design team expands. • Managing online content, creating descriptions and ensuring that all details on the website is accurate. Managing social networks on behalf of Home Store + More. From May 2012 to May 2014 (2 years 1 month) Marketing Manager / Graphic Designer @ As marketing manager / graphic designer for 11 Peats World of Electronics stores / Sony Centres I was responsible for ensuring that all stores had the required amount of POS. I also created signage and hand outs for stores and worked closely with them on their window displays. Created bespoke POS for each store when needed. From February 2011 to April 2012 (1 year 3 months) Manager @ Managing and motivating team to increase sales and ensure efficiency. Developing managerial skills, learning when to delegate and take responsibility on my own initiative. Analysing sales figures and forecasting future sales to maintain stock levels. Customer services – resolving issues and complaints effectively. From September 2010 to February 2011 (6 months) Sales Assistant @ From September 2006 to September 2010 (4 years 1 month) Internship @ Working as part of a cooperative team, establishing a tight design brief with clients and completing the job from conception to finished product. Design development included conducting user testing and interviews, sketching, brainstorming. Utilising Adobe Creative suite and Microsoft Visio for User Interface design, packaging design and web design. From May 2008 to August 2008 (4 months)

Master’s Degree, User Experience Design @ Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology From 2015 to 2017 Certificate, Human Computer Interaction, 1st Class Honours @ Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology From 2014 to 2015 Bachelor's Degree, Industrial Design, Honours @ National College of Art & Design From 2005 to 2009 Leaving Cert @ St. Paul's Girls Secondary School From 1999 to 2005 Laura Nolan is skilled in: User Interface Design, User Experience, User-centered Design, Sketch, Design Strategy, Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, CSS, HTML, Illustrator, Photography, Axure, InDesign, Product Design, Web Design