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Amanda Huffingham

New York, NY

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Amanda Huffingham practices user-driven design centered on human behavior. She has designed consumer products in a wide variety of verticals for companies including Fisher Price, Chilewich | Sultan, Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology, RabLabs and Input Creative Group. Amanda studied Product Design at Parsons The New School for Design.
Education
- Product Design
  
  Parsons School of Design
  
  2006 - 2010
- Drawing, Painting, Apparel
  
  Georgia Southern University
  
  2005 - 2006
Experience
- Information Architecture Freelancer
  
  Estee Lauder
  
  Feb 2013 - Present (11 years 9 months)
  
  Creating brand goals, personas, user storyboards, user engagement flows, site maps, brand tactics, taxonomy development, wireframing, feature lists, competitive analyses, and content audits.
- Design Researcher
  
  Input Creative Group
  
  Jun 2011 - Present (13 years 5 months)
  
  Conducting interviews with health care professionals, user testing of design concepts, organizing research discussions and findings, and secondary research.
- Freelance Designer
  
  Chilewich
  
  Jun 2009 - Present (15 years 5 months)
  
  Designing placemats — research, ideation, layout and organic and repeat patterns.
- User Experience Freelancer
  
  Gesture Theory
  
  Apr 2012 - Jan 2013 (9 months)
  
  Designing user experiences for various iPad apps –– creating user flows, competitive product audits, sitemaps, task models, feature lists, conducting interviews and user testing.
- Research Assistant
  
  RabLabs
  
  Jun 2010 - Jan 2012 (1 year 7 months)
  
  Gathering, analyzing, and editing data on biologically inspired design for publications and presentations; categorizing and analyzing methodologies of engineers and designers using biology as inspiration.
- Industrial Design Intern
  
  S-M-I-T Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology
  
  Jun 2009 - Dec 2009 (6 months)
  
  Market research, LED and photovoltaic integration research, ideation, SolidWorks modeling, rendering, prototyping for line development, building code and licensing work.
- Design Intern
  
  Fisher-Price
  
  Aug 2008 - Dec 2008 (4 months)
  
  Teen Dora character styling and product development, maintaining aesthetic value while considering manufacturing costs and target profit.
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- Industrial Design
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