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Katie Quinn

Pembroke Pines,FL

Summary

Hey! I'm Katie, a UX/UI Designer leveraging my experience in hospitality to create usable and intuitive digital products.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Server

Eddie V's Prime Seafood
Fort Lauderdale, FL
02.2021 - Current
  • Serves patrons by providing information to help food and beverage selections; presenting ordered choices; maintaining dining ambiance.
  • Protects establishment and patrons by adhering to sanitation, safety, and alcohol beverage control policies.
  • Helps patrons select food and beverages by presenting menu; offering cocktails and aperitifs; suggesting courses; explaining the chef’s specialties; identifying appropriate wines; answering food preparation questions.
  • Transmits orders to bar and kitchen by recording patrons’ choices; identifying patrons’ special dietary needs and special requests.
  • Handling orders within ticket times on kitchen line to ensure guest a seamless experience.

UX/UI and UX Designer

Avocademy
Pembroke Pines, FL
11.2023 - 03.2024

● Utilize competitive research to extract insights into the strengths and weaknesses of comparable applications and guide the creation of wireframes and the identification of usability challenges and necessary enhancements.

● Create a visual diagram that illustrates the path a user takes through a digital product or website to accomplish a specific goal helping the team gain an understanding of how users will navigate.

● Iterate and design medium to high-fidelity wireframes to enhance quality, consistency, and usability standards and align with industry standards by leveraging typography, iconography, color contrast, and information architecture.

● Develop a style guide to include contrast-supported colors, design components, textual elements, and icons to maintain a bonded and methodical visual identity and consistency across all elements.

● Iterate to redesign high-fidelity wireframes and components and produce a high-fidelity prototype to utilize user feedback and best practices to allow users to stay up to date on the latest makeup trends.

● Provide detailed high-fidelity screen measurements, annotations, and flows.

Customer Service Representative

Chewy.com
Hollywood, FL
05.2019 - 01.2021

Chewy has #1 customer service, only about 4% off applicants get the opportunity to work for the company. Our main goal is to take care of as many customers through calls as we possibly can;

there is ALWAYS a solution.

• Vet Diet department/ Handled and created veterinary diet prescriptions for Vet clinics

and customers to ensure pets got the prescription medications/food needed.

• Fraud department/ tracked down all clues to catch any unauthorized transactions made

through the site.

• Emails/ Handled all situations fully though

Education

Associate of Arts - Psychology

Broward College
Fort Lauderdale, FL
12-2016

Skills

Research: User Experience Design, Design Research, User Research, User Stories, User Flows, Personas, Site Mapping, Information Architecture, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, User Interviews, User Survey

Design: User Interface Design, Mobile App Design, Web Design, Design Thinking, Interaction Design, Design Composition, Style Guide, Typography, Wireframes, Ideation, Prototypes, User Testing, Mockups, Usability Testing

Toolkit: Figma, Miro, Jira, Fig Jam, Loom, Zoom, Microsoft Suite, Slack

Soft Skills: Agile Mindset, Scrum Framework, Empathy, Communication, Attention to Detail, Curiosity, Collaboration

Certification

UX/UI Foundations - Avocademy

Timeline

UX/UI and UX Designer

Avocademy
11.2023 - 03.2024

Server

Eddie V's Prime Seafood
02.2021 - Current

Customer Service Representative

Chewy.com
05.2019 - 01.2021

Associate of Arts - Psychology

Broward College
Katie Quinn