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Education
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Certification
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Candace Carlisle

Austin,TX
Candace Carlisle

Summary

Candace is a Senior Product Designer and Creative Director with over 20 years of experience. She is passionate about fonts, color theory, conversational design, cohesive branding, UI, minimalistic & thoughtful user experiences, and design strategy. Candace specializes in creating engaging and innovative solutions that enhance learning, empathy, and collaboration. She combines her skills in creative direction, UX, UI, prototyping, motion graphics, and web development to deliver products that meet the needs and expectations of various domains and audiences. Candace uses tools such as Adobe Photoshop, XD, Figma, and After Effects to prototype, test, and iterate on products, ensuring they meet the highest standards of quality, usability, and accessibility.

Candace has an impressive track record of client work and projects featured in Forbes, Inc, Fast Company, Entreprenuer, Venture Beat, Hatch Pitch, The American Genius, American Statesman, Austin Monthly, Texas Monthly, on KVUE-TV, and more. 🎉

Overview

19
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

Embodied Labs

Product Designer
07.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • UX/UI design focused on immersive reality and experiences (XR/VR)
  • Collaboration with crossfunctional teams to translate ideas and concepts into prototypes, and designs
  • User research and usability testing to validate design decisions and make data-driven recommendations to improve user experiences.

Osso VR

Director of Design
08.2022 - 03.2023

Job overview

  • Managed user experience, interface design, and visual design for Osso VR. Including managing and supporting existing UX and design teams, as well as individually contributing work on the 2D assets and design, VR experience design, and user research.
  • Facilitated collaboration between departments by presenting ideas at interdepartmental meetings.
  • Managed implementation of human-centered design approaches to standardize design methodologies.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define user experience requirements and develop designs that met those needs.

Businessolver

Principal User Experience Designer
01.2020 - 11.2021

Job overview

  • Lead visual UX designer managing multiple products simultaneously
  • Providing software engineers with full-service execution: Initial consulting, planning, research, concept presentations, prototyping, high fidelity comps, asset handoff, and detailed specification documents
  • Creative direction for technical applications
  • Solving challenging problems with elegant user-centric design
  • Diverse design experience allows me to support multiple teams: mobile, Sofia Chat AI, and Sofia Reporting
  • Primarily a software UX role, but also providing branding and marketing-focused directives as needed around activation paths, resource collateral, and feature video onboarding.

EVO Payments, Inc.

Director Corporate Brand & Communications
03.2019 - 01.2020

Job overview

  • Oversaw brand governance, online visibility, web presence, strategic social media campaign management in addition to global public visibility and employee communications including employee engagement, cultural initiatives, and intranet engagement
  • Operational across all departments
  • Responsible for large-scale brand initiatives, message positioning, and strategic communications planning/execution of key company initiatives.

EVO Payments, Inc.

Creative Director
09.2018 - 03.2019

Job overview

  • Responsible for the ongoing development of our new brand refresh, company culture brand, internal brand platform, marketing initiatives, video production, and people leadership across verticals
  • Guides all marketing design projects and is responsible for the overall quality and impact of the work produced by the internal multi-office and global teams.

Photodex Corporation

Art Director / Creative Services Manager
07.2015 - 08.2018

Job overview

  • Maintained overall brand cohesiveness for three core products
  • Included: Production of artwork and content to support various promotional campaigns
  • Such as banner ads, blog graphics, ebooks, email marketing, social media posts, and miscellaneous creative
  • Website design and site graphic updates or additions + HTML & CSS development
  • Tradeshow layout, design & production of large format signage and banner backdrops, demo pod panels, and tabletop promotional artwork and collateral
  • Product packaging design for software boxes, disc labels, and accessory product DVD cases, including procurement
  • User Interface and User Experience Design for a desktop product, browser-based product, mobile, and web
  • Brand development strategy - focusing on corporate and product rebrand
  • Brand strategy and design concepts; implemented consistently across all media channels and collateral
  • Video & Effects creation in AfterEffects & Premier
  • Effects production using ProShow software
  • Production of new effects used for inclusion as built-in FX options in ProShow products, ProShow Effects products, and for promotional campaigns as a purchase or upgrade incentive
  • Video demos & commercial design - production of polished, professional videos using ProShow software for use as example video slideshows, as well as product commercial demos promoting features in new software and effects packs releases
  • Curation of content for various projects, and social campaigns (stock imagery, fonts, video clips, music for videos, supporting art assets)
  • Project management and scheduling for creative projects and also company event planning.

Creative Director
08.2013 - 07.2015

Job overview

  • Worked as a passionate design-driven creative director with the analytical mind of a strategist and the processes of an account director
  • Fulfilling the responsibilities of making our product experience amazing, having our brand echo the nature of our culture, and of course to our amazing team
  • Unlike many creative directors, I am 100% hands-on; I prefer to lead by example
  • Engaged in all elements of design, product, and marketing from traditional advertising to web design, UI/UX, interactive/interaction, and to the integration of emerging technologies… especially with the features we strive to introduce through our product
  • A product designed to facilitate happiness.

Leaf Group

Creative Services Manager
06.2012 - 08.2013

Job overview

  • Identity design, branding, site design, and production management/ project management for online and offline media across multiple products (Pluck, RSS Graffiti, Reviews++, Insights, CoverItLive) under the Demand Media product umbrella, charged with design, development, and implementation of our Media/Product Marketing Updates/Event and Online updates for Pluck
  • I also design and manage deliverables from these resources across a multitude of media types - media types include website (design and implementation), collateral, mobile sites, product comps, email marketing campaigns, video production, posters, packaging, direct mail, sales collateral, white paper's, event collateral, tradeshow materials, and booth design
  • Accountable for all creative deadlines, while influencing other stakeholders (Copy, Marketing, Sales, etc.) to support successful outcomes
  • Accountable for improving Creative Workflow, streamlining process(s) for faster turnaround, at less cost, without error, at the highest quality output
  • Responsible for IA, planning - initial strategy, design to completion, trafficking to tracking jobs, from beginning to end, by resource, so productivity by job type and personnel can be measured and improved upon
  • Primary liaise and communication bridge between Creative Services, Product Teams, Marketing & Sales
  • My job is to create and maintain product collateral for both print and web on multiple products
  • Manage & plan for photography and video shoots for campaign use (style list, dates, budget)
  • Create, communicate, implement and document all processes within Creative Services to exact a level of efficiency within departments
  • Manage all jobs for release to multiple Printer(s) within the US, UK, and additional global resources
  • Including Pre-press
  • Post-production....rinse & repeat.

Monkee-Boy Web Design, Inc.

Senior Graphic Designer
12.2010 - 02.2012

Job overview

  • My responsibilities included taking creative briefs from concept to completion for not only web but print, mobile, and app design
  • These processes primarily consist of grid-based design or layout wireframe creation, creative strategy and discovery, establishing web-based type-kits that mimic the established brand, designing interactive elements, comp layout, in addition to identity/logo design
  • Much of my position requires that I maintain internal communications and create follow-up materials including ads, collateral material like brochures & product catalogs and extends to advertising and marketing collateral which includes social media (Twitter, Facebook, FBML, Youtube, Vimeo)
  • A large aspect of this position is interfacing with the clients, from the business development side to presenting creative to clients, and CMS training which includes a heavy project management responsibility for specific clients and projects.

Electric Promotions

Event Planner & Promoter | Designer/Developer & Owner
05.2008 - 12.2010

Job overview

  • Graphic and Web Design and Development, Product Placement, Identity, Brand development, website traffic growth, art, and more..
  • Production of visual solutions for the communication needs of local and national-based clients, using a mix of creative skills, commercial awareness, social media, networking, PR, and promotional services
  • Including design and conceptual branding, identity, website, design & development, search engine optimization, presentations, packaging
  • With a specialization in event production, planning and promotion.

Electric Bat Interactive LLC

Senior Graphic Designer
12.2009 - 11.2010

Job overview

  • Responsible for producing and overseeing creative work for all products and brands within the company's portfolio including design for web, print, interactive platforms, campaigns, promo materials, advertisements, and all marketing materials.

Marketing Matters Advertising Agency

Lead Web & Graphic Designer / Developer
01.2006 - 01.2008

Job overview

  • Responsible for web department in relation to interface design, web banners, interactive functionality, project procurement, content management system integration, CMS training, SEO, product and logo identity, and collateral materials
  • Worked on unified brand strategy for multiple clients from concept to completion
  • Supported production of promotional materials, ads for print media, and web-based advertising.

Applied Materials

Flash Developer
01.2006 - 01.2006

Job overview

  • Engaged diverse selection of projects on both large and small-scale that included custom Flash tutorials based off of provided information architecture, and visual design
  • Produced voice over audio for animation and integrated audio into prompted time-line for interactive tutorials.

Celebrate Publications

Creative Director
01.2005 - 01.2005

Job overview

  • Managed creative and editorial staff on projects from concept to completion
  • Translated marketing objectives into creative strategies, directed the in-house creative team, editorial overview set design, storyboard design, styling, magazine and ad layouts, and environment design for promotional trade shows
  • Overall goal was to create an environment in which design and; editorial staff could facilitate their best work.

Education

Austin Community College

Interactive Design & Animation
12.2007

University Overview

California State University, Fullerton

Graphic Design
12.2003

University Overview

Orange Coast College

Digital Media Arts & Design & Anthropology
12.2001

University Overview

San Antonio College

Photo Journalism & Fine Arts
12.1999

University Overview

The Art Institutes

12.1993

University Overview

Skills

  • Video Production
  • Creative Content Creation
  • Concept Art
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • User Experience Design (UED)
  • Multimedia
  • Product Design
  • Art Direction
  • Company Branding
  • Workflow Management
  • Mobile App Design
  • Design Research
  • Creative Direction
  • Design Strategy
  • User-Centered Design
  • Visual Design
  • User Research
  • User Experience Testing
  • Design Validation
  • Prototyping
  • Wireframing and Prototype Design
  • Usability and Accessibility
  • CSS / HTML
  • Digital Marketing
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Social Media Marketing
  • Strategic Communications
  • Campaign Development
  • Creative Team Collaboration
  • Strategic Leadership

Certification

AutoCAD - Autodesk

Conversational UX, CDI

Affiliations

Affiliations
  • Painting, travel, behavioral science, multimedia creation, marathoning, baking, event planning, vintage ephemera, vinyl, horticulture, modern art, and music!

Accomplishments

Accomplishments
  • Hatch Pitch Award / Forbes / Fast Company / 2022 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award , sponsored by the Business Intelligence Group.

Languages

Spanish
Limited
Italian
Limited

References

References
References available upon request.

Timeline

Product Designer
Embodied Labs
07.2023 - Current
Director of Design
Osso VR
08.2022 - 03.2023
Principal User Experience Designer
Businessolver
01.2020 - 11.2021
Director Corporate Brand & Communications
EVO Payments, Inc.
03.2019 - 01.2020
Creative Director
EVO Payments, Inc.
09.2018 - 03.2019
Art Director / Creative Services Manager
Photodex Corporation
07.2015 - 08.2018
Creative Director
08.2013 - 07.2015
Creative Services Manager
Leaf Group
06.2012 - 08.2013
Senior Graphic Designer
Monkee-Boy Web Design, Inc.
12.2010 - 02.2012
Senior Graphic Designer
Electric Bat Interactive LLC
12.2009 - 11.2010
Event Planner & Promoter | Designer/Developer & Owner
Electric Promotions
05.2008 - 12.2010
Lead Web & Graphic Designer / Developer
Marketing Matters Advertising Agency
01.2006 - 01.2008
Flash Developer
Applied Materials
01.2006 - 01.2006
Creative Director
Celebrate Publications
01.2005 - 01.2005
Austin Community College
Interactive Design & Animation
California State University, Fullerton
Graphic Design
Orange Coast College
Digital Media Arts & Design & Anthropology
San Antonio College
Photo Journalism & Fine Arts
The Art Institutes

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