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Senior UX Designer

Matt is an award-winning designer with over two decades in the digital landscape. His multifaceted disciplines include user experience methodologies, user interface design, front-end development, creating/contributing to centralized/federated design systems, branding, animation, post production, and creative management.

As a Senior UX Designer for First American Title, I am responsible conducting user experience research with customers, partners, peers and stakeholders. I effectively communicate UX concepts by collecting product & business requirements, identifying key customer experience issues, defining the scope of work, understanding opportunities, generating user personas, creating user flows, designing wireframes, producing multi-range fidelity mockups, and developing framework ready prototypes. 

• Empathetic user advocate focused on delivering products with an intuitive user experience.

• Agile, DevOps, LeanUX, a few keywords to describe the process for the product lifecycle.

• Architect project specific UX road maps leveraging a variety of UX methodologies.

• Conduct persona research to identify target demographics.

• Leverage research to support UX/UI recommendations.

• Create low-fidelity wireframes to aid in UI validation.

• Create high-fidelity mockups and prototypes.

• Develop HTML/CSS/JS prototypes to streamline engineering efforts.

• Work closely with engineering teams to ensure the design is fully actualized.

• Advocate the user throughout the development lifecycle, promoting user centered design.

• Collaborate with corporate marketing to ensure application designs are aligned with brand guidelines.

• Direct the visual appearance of new features and enhancements to ensure a consistent user experience.

• Produce high-quality visual designs from concept to completion for desktop and mobile devices.

• Support airline in maintenance of connected airside passenger applications and experiences.

• Develop visual strategies to support interactions that deliver a consistent user experience. 

• Design conceptual wireframes and convert them into beautiful, pixel perfect prototypes. 

• Provide direction regarding development methodologies, frameworks, and processes. 

• Drive project scoping, for the development of new products and product lifecycles.

• Program airline branded airside portals utilizing a combination of web languages.

• Lead regular agile sessions to ensure projects are appropriately managed.

• Create personas and wireframes based on user-centered design and research.

• Direct engineering and production support teams with airside installation. 

• Manage sites through repositories via Command Line Interface. 

• Manage International and Domestic accounts.

UI/UX Designer - Frontend Developer II

• Inspired professional development of creatives.

• Directed campaigns across conventional and digital platforms. 

• Developed national campaigns.

• Actively engaged in all client portfolio efforts.

Creative Director

• Managed a team of 5 (designers and a copywriter).

• Challenged team to think beyond the stakeholder’s vision, to realize a highly interactive and engaging user experience.

• Designed corporate website from initial concept to completion.

• Created product packaging and brand identity.

Art Director

• Complete rebrand of the company style guides, collateral, website and online presence. 

• Sutra increased traffic and revenue by over 40% within the first year of rebranding.

• Designed and developed an intranet system to manage all of their VIP bookings in addition to scheduling and managing talent.

Senior Graphic Designer

• Analyzed market competition, pricing, styles and trends.

• Created seasonal product line list including price points.

• Assisted with print and oversaw completed prototypes. 

• Identified and suggested market opportunities.

• Created technical sheets for both lines.

Graphic Designer

• Separated all vector design colors into individual art boards, in preparation for silk screening.

• Created designs from concept to production.

• Assisted with product catalog development.

• Improved brand equity.

Fashion Designer/Graphic Designer

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Matt Kearney: Senior UX Designer in Laguna Beach, CA

Matt Kearney

First American Title Corporation

Panasonic Avionics Corporation

MBA Design Team

XOWii

Sutra OC

Taylored Inc.

Advert Inc.

Codecademy

Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at The George Washington University

Saddleback College

The Interaction Design Foundation