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Isha Black

I am a multidisciplinary creative committed to designing beautiful products and experiences that bring delightful joy.

I have delivered on a broad range of projects applying my inspiration for good design to create great products.

As a deep thinking and process orientated designer, I have the unique ability of combing my technical expertise & design ingenuity to the problem solving required to create quality customer focused experiences.

To make great products requires a great process that can condense friction into its most clearest path to connect with the needs and desires of the audience.

My particular professional strength is creating a consistent Brand Story and Design Language System that can transverse the complete customer experience. This is matched by adopting UX/UI methodologies to all customer touchpoints, and building the business systems to support the design solutions crafted for them.

The more I further my career the importance of
focusing and collaborating with key stakeholders to gain a complete overview of the customer journey is absolutely crucial for the success of the products and businesses I work with.

Personality

I thrive in supporting others with my creativity and abstract problem solving.

Being strong driven to help positive change, I hold a highly developed emotional intelligence.

This allows me collaborate with diverse teams and negotiate the eccentricities of the entrepreneurial spirit and key project stakeholders.

Skills Matrix

I have a cross-spectrum skillset ranging from fine art, illustration, print and product design through to CX, UX / UI design, frontend development, web design and dev, server admin and project and team management.

  • Level:
  • Basic
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced
  • Expert
Product
  • STRATEGY
  • RESEARCH
  • BRAND + IDENTITY
  • DESIGN LANGUAGE
  • CUSTOMER PROFILES
  • CUSTOMER JOURNEY
  • OPERATIONS
Project
  • WIREFRAMES
  • USER STORIES
  • DOCUMENTATION
  • TEAM LEADERSHIP
  • PROJECT MANAGER
  • CLIENT RELATIONS
Prototype
  • XD
  • FIGMA
  • ILLUSTRATOR
  • PHOTOSHOP
  • ICONOGRAPHY
  • PRODUCT TESTING
  • USER INTERVIEWS
Backend
  • GIT
  • MYSQL
  • PHP
  • Server Admin
  • Terminal
Frontend
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • SASS
  • JAVASCRIPT
  • WORDPRESS
  • ECOMM
  • AUTOMATION
  • WEBHOOKS
  • MOTION
Delivery
  • PRINT
  • PACKAGING
  • PRODUCTION
  • WEB
  • ANALYTICS
  • MARKETING
  • SOCIAL

Career Timeline

NOV 2021 – APR 2023:

Coception Studio – Byron Bay NSW Australia

Contract: Founder, Lead Designer and web developer.
Key Tasks: Customer journey, Customer research, branding, design system, product design ecomm Business System design, Website design and development and marketing automatons.

NOV 2021 – APR 2023:
AUG 2022 – NOV 2022:

Fame Capital – Sydney NSW Australia

Contract: Lead design for Crypto investment platform.
Key Tasks: UX/UI Design, web design, process documentation, cross platform product testing and team management.

AUG 2022 – NOV 2022:
NOV 2021 – JUL 2022:

CHAMELEON – Colorado USA

Contract: Brand design and development of ICO offering of crypto exchange.
Key Tasks: Customer Journey Mapping, Customer Research, Branding, Design System, Web development and Packaging Design.

NOV 2021 – JUL 2022:
SEPT 2020 – MAR 2023:

Secret States – Castlemaine VIC Australia

Contract: Branding, product design and Ecomm store for Water Fasting Tonic.
Key Tasks: Customer Journey Mapping, Customer Research, Branding, Design System, Product and Packaging Design, Business Systems and Content Strategy.

SEPT 2020 – MAR 2023:
DEC 2017 – AUG 2018:

Working Mouse: Unilodge – Brisbane QLD Australia

Contract: Team lead, UX/UI design and delivery of student accommodation platform.
Key Tasks: Project Management, UX research, user testing, user stories and backlog management, UI design, iconography, prototyping, frontend dev, testing and delivery.

DEC 2017 – AUG 2018:
JAN 2018 – MAR 2018:

Houselab – Melbourne VIC Australia

Contract: UX/UI design and documentation for house hand over and defect service.
Key Tasks: User stories,wireframes, prototype, developer documentation.

JAN 2018 – MAR 2018:
JUN 2017 – SEPT 2017:

Working Mouse: Padmore City – Brisbane QLD Australia

Contract: UX/UI designer and prototype for educational game platform.
Key Tasks: UX research, user stories and backlog management, system architecture, game flow engine, character design, wireframes, prototype and chat bot demo.

JUN 2017 – SEPT 2017:
NOV 2016 – AUG 2018:

Working Mouse: Gevity – Brisbane QLD Australia

Contract: Team lead, UX/UI design and project management for health platform.
Key Tasks: Project Management, UX research, user stories and backlog management, UI design, iconography, prototyping, frontend dev, testing and delivery.

NOV 2016 – AUG 2018:
AUG 2016 – OCT 2016:

Australian Design Review – Melbourne VIC Australia

Contract: UX/UI design and development documentation for wordpress theme.
Key Tasks: WordPress theme designs and grid layout for ad size, InVision prototypes, branding and developer documentation.

AUG 2016 – OCT 2016:
APR 2015 – MAR 2016:

Journey Tree – Gold Coast QLD Australia

Contract: UX/UI design platform for early childhood learning centres.
Key Tasks: User story analysis and mapping, documentation for developers, InVision prototypes, wireframes, icon design, branding, style guide documentation.

APR 2015 – MAR 2016:
NOV 2014 – SEPT 2016:

1st Avenue Gallery – Sawtell NSW, Australia

Contract: Director of a Fine Art Gallery..
Key Tasks: Curation, sales, Branding, CRM, EDM design & management, graphic design and desktop publishing.

NOV 2014 – SEPT 2016:
MAR 2014 – SEPT 2014:

AirShare – Sydney NSW, Australia

Contract: Lead UX/UI Designer and Project Manager for Crowdsource booking platform.
Key Tasks: UX workflows, wireframes for web application, documentation project management of offshore development team in Ukraine.

MAR 2014 – SEPT 2014:
JAN 2014 – JUN 2014:

Byron App – Byron Bay NSW Australia

Contract: Lead UX/UI Designer for a What’s on guide service.
Key Tasks: Wireframes for IOS/Android apps, Icon and asset design, branding, website design, documentation, project management team in Pakistan.

JAN 2014 – JUN 2014:
JAN 2013 – OCT 2013:

Earz – Mullumbimby NSW Australia

Contract: Lead UX/UI Designer and Front End Developer for HTML5 web app for Music discovery platform.
Key Tasks: Frontend design, branding, documentation, marketing, web dev, HTML5, CSS, responsive webdesign, Foundation Javascript, Java, Struts, Velocity, SVN, MAMP.

JAN 2013 – OCT 2013:
NOV 2010 – OCT 2012:

Avapay – Byron Bay / Sydney NSW Australia

Contract: Lead UX/UI Designer and Front End Developer for a Mobile payment and inventory system.
Key Tasks: Frontend development, mobile app design, branding, patents diagram and documentation, system analysis, documentation, web development.

NOV 2010 – OCT 2012:

Education

Scrum Master Certification

2018 Brisbane
Scrum Alliance

Advanced Certificate in Visual Art and Design

1995 Major Printmaking
Queensland School of Printing and Graphic Design, Brisbane QLD

Certificate in Visual Art and Design

1994 Major Painting
Morningside School of Arts, Brisbane QLD

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