Rolando Solis
UX UI Designer
McKinney,TX
Summary
Hi! I’m Rolando Solis, a UX/UI Designer based in Dallas, Texas! I specialize in delivering comprehensive UX/UI designs for software products. My portfolio spans across diverse markets including marketing, payment processing, e- commerce, and insurance. Whether I’m spearheading UX research or UX design, I’m always passionate about connecting business goals to users’ needs.
Portfolio link: http://rolandosolisdesign.squarespace.com/
Portfolio password: rolandoux
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
UI/UX Designer
Employers Insurance Group (contract)
6 2023 - Current
- Responsible for transforming and optimizing our existing and new products and experiences to be more visually engaging, intuitive, and easy to use
- Communicate with customers and end users to understand their business goals, product experience expectations, and cognitive biases
- Develop visual product style guides that deliver intuitive and user-centered solutions
- Create full-fledged application and feature wireframes for product and engineering teams to implement
- Support user acceptance testing with designs and written stories
- Create design proof of concepts and prototypes for new product ideas and features, enable fast beta-testing capabilities
- Conduct testing of sample applications, websites, and products to assess user experience, ease of use, and competition of intended actions
- Provide guidance on the implementation of UX and UI research techniques and testing activities to assess user behavior
- Ensure applications are meeting IT Accessibility Standards
- Maintain a competitive edge against competitor products and industry trends.
- Created style guides and design systems to maintain consistency across all platforms and products.
- Worked closely with marketing teams to align branding elements within the UI/UX design.
UX/UI Designer
Corduro (freelance)
04.2023 - 07.2023
- Create design strategy while considering end user needs
- Collaborate with cross-functional team during project discovery, delivery, and launch
- Deliver low and high fidelity designs for digital solutions
- Work in the discovery phases of projects, partnering with different groups to get different ideas & gather requirements for the project
- Requirements gathering, put into user flow diagrams, translate into UI/UX and do the design
- User research and building UI/UX artifacts
- UI/UX- user flows- to make sure users can navigate through an entire product
- Help build out pathways and digital features
- Help out with discovery stages and design as Link builds out products
- Plan, organize workshops, ceremonies, get into design phase, working in SCRUMS & working on user stories through project management tool (DevOps) - Work in Adobe design suite - Work with design tools like Figma and Adobe XD
- Help Corduro with web design and prototyping
- Create responsive html landing pages.
- Championed a user-centric mindset within the organization by advocating for UX/UI best practices in meetings, presentations, and internal communications.
UI/UX Designer
Exela Technologies
08.2022 - 03.2023
- Create design strategy while considering end user needs
- Collaborate with cross-functional team during project discovery, delivery, and launch
- Deliver low and high fidelity designs for digital solutions
- Work in the discovery phases of projects, partnering with different groups to get different ideas & gather requirements for the project
- Requirements gathering, put into user flow diagrams, translate into UI/UX and do the design
- User research and building UI/UX artifacts.
Lead User Experience Designer
Advent Trinity Marketing Agency
09.2021 - 08.2022
- Deliver high-quality user experiences and visual design across mobile and desktop
- Optimize designs for mobile through the entire user journey
- Work with the development team to scope, test, build and iterate on new features
- User and A/B testing
- Solve complex problems and help to define the user experience of features from initial ideas to production ready designs
- Make use of user research and quantitative data to make informed decisions
- Create a range of low to high fidelity deliverables including but not limited to wireframes, visual interfaces, and prototypes
- Produce user flows and visual design for company products across web, mobile, and even point of sales systems
- Create a wide variety of UX/UI deliverables including, personas, sketches, user flows, prototypes, & hi-fidelity designs
- Oversee the development of project scope and architectural overview
- Assist in background research to identify pain points within the user experience
- Design and prototype UI wireframes to be sent to management and development teams
- Conduct design and development meetings to achieve project deliverables
- Help with Videography and Photography clients
- Help with Logo Design and Branding
- Help with Graphic Design Projects.
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Communication and Media Studies
New Mexico State University
01.2013 - 05.2016
Certification - User Experience (UX) Design
Southern Methodist University
01.2020 - 05.2021
Skills
Layout Design
Design thinking
Responsive design
Usability and Accessibility
Wireframing and Prototype Design
User Research
Usability Testing
Figma proficiency
Persona creation
HTML and CSS
Atomic Design
User Interface (UI) design
Certification
User Experience Design
Timeline
UX/UI Designer
Corduro (freelance)
04.2023 - 07.2023
UI/UX Designer
Exela Technologies
08.2022 - 03.2023
Lead User Experience Designer
Advent Trinity Marketing Agency
09.2021 - 08.2022
Certification - User Experience (UX) Design
Southern Methodist University
01.2020 - 05.2021
Bachelor's Degree - Communication and Media Studies
New Mexico State University
01.2013 - 05.2016
UI/UX Designer
Employers Insurance Group (contract)
6 2023 - Current
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