Creative Product Designer with experience developing innovative, approachable user experience frameworks. Skilled at using storytelling to integrate user needs into the goals of the organization. Ceaselessly focused on user-centric design decisions. Accomplished at creating wholly new frameworks that feel completely familiar to ease user adoption.
Hi, I’m
Jewel Adiuku
Austin,TX
Summary
Overview
2
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
Lighthouse
Lead UX Designer
08.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Researched and proposed new solutions to make website more user-friendly.
- Identified, documented and reported on technical factors impacting interface performance.
- Designed elevated and brand-right UI-kit to improve the experience of users interacting with the current Lighthouse church mobile app.
- Used findings from previously conducted research to determine the best approach to improve the existing user flow.
Software for Love
Lead Product Designer
04.2022 - 01.2023
Job overview
- Worked with the festival volunteer organization to re-design their volunteer scheduling portal on desktops and mobiles
- Worked as a lead designer to conduct user research in the area of empathy mapping and competitive analysis to identify the current problems with the existing software
- Developed wireframes, prototypes and conducted user testing.
- Brainstormed with peers and other members of design team to determine enhancements and product features.
- Suggested enhancements to product design that would improve user experience.
UOttawa Engineering Without Borders
Co-Founder & Product Designer of ICare
03.2021 - 04.2021
Job overview
- Worked with a multidisciplinary team to conduct research to identify the health needs of the Iqaluit community and implement a smart city objective.
- Developed prototypes, mock-ups and created usability charts explaining features, functionalities, and feasibility of the design.
UOttawa Faculty Of Health Sciences
User Researcher – Honours Thesis Project
12.2020 - 04.2021
Job overview
- A large-scale qualitative study conducting background research and reviewed seminal articles on abortion laws.
- Explored women's experiences obtaining abortion care and the facilitators and barriers that women face in Kansas.
- Conducted interviews, recruitment, transcribing and presenting obtained findings in a research symposium.
Education
University of Texas At AustinAustin, TX
MA from Design Focused on Health
05.2023
University Overview
Coursera
from Google UX Design Professional Certificate
2022
University Overview
University of Ottawa
BHSc from Health Sciences - Population & Public Health
04.2021
University Overview
Skills
- Qualitative research
- Participant Recruitment
- Interviewing
- Story Production
- User Research
- Journey Mapping
- Prototyping
- Wireframing
- Empathy Mapping
- Ideation
- Excellent Communicator
- Problem Solver
- Systems Thinking
- Transcription
- Figma
- Miro
- Survey Monkey
- Maze
- Calendly
- Zoom/Google Hangouts
- Affinity Mapping
- Customer Awareness
- Adobe Photoshop
- Webflow
Certification
Certified GCP – Social and Behavioral Research Best Practices for Clinical Research , Citi Program
Timeline
Lead UX Designer
Lighthouse
08.2022 - Current
Lead Product Designer
Software for Love
04.2022 - 01.2023
Co-Founder & Product Designer of ICare
UOttawa Engineering Without Borders
03.2021 - 04.2021
User Researcher – Honours Thesis Project
UOttawa Faculty Of Health Sciences
12.2020 - 04.2021
University of Texas At Austin
MA from Design Focused on Health
Coursera
from Google UX Design Professional Certificate
University of Ottawa
BHSc from Health Sciences - Population & Public Health
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