User Interface Designer at Google

Vicki Tran

Santa Clara, CA

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Experienced designer, closet geek, + pet lover.

Specializes in designing product concepts that aligns with business goals, rapid prototyping to validate ideas and gain early support from stakeholders, creating user scenarios/task for testing, and driving project to completion.

Expertise:

Product design

Interaction design

UI design

Visual design

Prototyping

User research

Usability testing

Graphic design
Education
- BA Visual Arts with emphasis in Graphic Design, Minor in Media Studies
  
  University of San Francisco
  
  2004 - 2008
- Saint Lawrence Academy
  
  2000 - 2004
Experience
- User Interface Designer
  
  Google
  
  Jul 2011 - Present (13 years 5 months)
  
  UI Designer for Google Shopping
  
  • Shopping lists
  • Collaborative shopping
  • Personalization
  • User generated content
- User Experience + User Interface Designer
  
  Memeo
  
  Nov 2008 - Jul 2011 (2 years 8 months)
  
  • Lead UI/Visual Designer for consumer and smb products.
  
  • Designed applications relating to backup, sync, and file/photo sharing.
  
  • Designed user flows and wireframes to define application's architecture, functionality, and content.
  
  • Created interactive prototypes using html/css and javascript to test product concepts.
  
  • Organized and lead remote usability test sessions using prototype.
  
  • Experienced in designing interfaces for desktop, web, and mobile (iOS and Android) applications.
  
  • Designed Memeo Connect Reader for iPad. The application was selected as a “Staff Favorite” on the App Store during the week of April 13, 2010.
- Freelance Designer
  
  Victoria Tran
  
  Nov 2008 - Jul 2011 (2 years 8 months)
  
  • UI Design
  • Branding
  • Web Design
  • Front End Web Development
  • Application Design
  • Mobile Design
- Freelance UI/UX Designer
  
  Flower Press Creative Studio, LLC
  
  Nov 2008 - Jul 2011 (2 years 8 months)
  
  • UI design for web applications
  • Logo design
  • Web design
  • UX consultant
- User Interface Designer
  
  Flower Press Creative Studio, LLC
  
  Mar 2007 - Nov 2008 (1 year 8 months)
  
  • Actively collaborate with creative team to conceive designs with marketing strategy in mind.
  
  • Design and develop brand identities, web interfaces, websites, and collateral for clients.
  
  • Create wireframes and user flows for complex interactive websites, and web applications.
- Freelance Graphic Designer
  
  Zaavy
  
  Jul 2006 - Aug 2007 (1 year 1 month)
  
  • Illustration
  • Logo design
  • Production design
Skills
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