Ricardo Z.

Lead Designer for their internal Checkmark team working with their HubX group. All his design work affected Purina.com ● Heavy and advanced use of Figma to create designs for a variety of initiatives: search results pages, components for other brand designers to use in their own designs, create and maintain team libraries, create prototypes for UX research, ingredients maps. ● Provide design support to the development team with solid arguments based on detailed knowledge of UX, design principles, web performance, HTML, CSS, RWD, branding, accessibility. ● Contribute to already built libraries by editing prior and creating new designs and components. ● Be the owner of the design standards and encourage its use. ● Lead collaborative but influential voice for UX/UI for cross-functional teams. Be a leading voice in consumer-centric problem-solving. ● Rapidly iterate on design prototypes and working applications executing all visual design stages from concept to wireframe and UI hand-off for development. ● Speak the language of developers and understand development critical paths to success and incorporate these in the UX planning process. ● Provide design support during development and execution; assist with QA to ensure designs are implemented accurately and with the highest standard including CSS integrity, fonts, user interaction, and task completion rate success metrics.

Go-to designer for their N|Solid Platform (Node.js) ● Facilitate UI/UX Design expertise for their custom-built N|Solid platform. ● Provide UX analysis of new features. ● Heavy use of Figma to create wireframes, demos/prototypes, and technically-sound designs. ● Advice on UI/UX best practices and recommendations while looking for ways to innovate with new ideas. ● Extend their solid brand in the newly created designs for the requested features.