Van Nga Pham

• Lead graduate students on developing ideas for web, mobile and tablet UX/UI designs on best practices and responsive web.

• Write lesson plans, organize activities and agendas to teach MFA graduate students on developing their final thesis for graduation.

• User experience lessons includes: Infographics, how to represent complex information visually, design sketch exploration, low fidelity wireframes, high fidelity prototypes, writing annotations/specs, sitemaps, workflows, user task scenarios, writing moderator guides for user testing and guiding students to make design decisions based on UX industry best practices.

http://www.academyart.edu/

Senior UI/UX Designer & Product Innovator (Music Apps) 2014
Product design for consumer facing android, tablet and watch gear products

• Yahoo Time Traveler for iPhone 5 - Optimizing, UI/UX

• Designing mobile consumer facing user interaction models, workflows and user interfaces

• Helping to define the user model and user interface for new and existing products Developing high level and/or detailed storyboards, create mockups and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction

• Translating usability and field research findings into design improvements

• Collaborating with other Yahoo! product teams to develop cross-product standards both inside of Search and across the Yahoo!

Software: Adobe, HTML, CSS Design.

Project: Yahoo! Time Traveler
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo!-timetraveler/id527349170?mt=8

★ Featured by Apple in "On The Town", "City Guides", "Summer Travel Essentials", "Plan Your Vacation" and "New & Noteworthy" (twice)! ★

★ “With TimeTraveler, I’d have had a much better chance of seeing the best of Amsterdam that fit in my 6-hour slice.” - VentureBeat ★

★ "Yahoo TimeTraveler, a free iPhone offering, offers some nifty features of its own - helping users plan their itineraries for trips in 29 major cities around the world.” – Macworld ★

• Wholesales and Treasury Applications: Hands on design and lead design directions for the foreign exchange online application, merging Wachovia and Wells Fargo features.

• Conduct heuristic evaluations and usability testing on low/high fidelity prototypes, card sorting and paper prototypes

• Optimize large scale web platforms to tablet and mobile devices

• Design data and flexible user interface for tablet and mobile devices

• Collaborate and present with a team of 40 people, which includes the business team, business analysts, engineers, QA and content writers to develop an online application.

• Lead and manage junior/mid level designers work tasks and project direction.

• Facilitate project communication across a multidisciplinary team through all phases and product lifecycle, from initial explorations through final design.

• Collaborate and organize UX team building meetings

• Software: Adobe CS5, Fireworks, HTML, CSS, Javascript

• Create high fidelity prototypes and simulation mockups to communicate with stakeholders and usability testing.

• Consulting on prototyping for best practices & standard guidelines for employees.

• Collaborated and contributed to the design pattern library.

• Collaborate with interaction designers, stakeholders, product managers on stages of product cycle.

• Create wireframes and prototypes using widget-based applications in iRise

• Create consumer templates for prototyping and user testing

• Prototype Projects: Profile & preferences, shipping portlet, parallel production, drug encyclopedia, my medical records, proxy setup, my health plan documents, messaging center

• Software: iRise, Visio, Morae


https://www.kaiserpermanente.org/

Client List Contracts:

FoundHealth: http://www.foundhealth.com/ (Sunnyvale, CA)
• Create Axure mockups that translate service and business processes into user friendly User Interface flows
• Defining look and feel, information flow, navigation structure and style guide
• User testing evaluation to ensure workflows and user’s experience
• Software: Photoshop, InDesign

Juice Beauty: http://www.juicebeauty.com/ (San Rafael, CA)
• Define e-commerce strategies and functionality for organic beauty solutions website
• Track and define e-commerce conversion rates in Google Analytics
• Design user interface, look and feel of the website
• Software: Photoshop, InDesign

Taproot Foundation http://www.huckleberryyouth.org (San Francisco, CA)
• Projects: Huckleberry Youth Programs – (UI Designer/Information Architecture) Episcopal Community Services
• Design branding and advanced user interface website
• Software: Photoshop, Illustrator

Essay Admissions: http://www.eliteadmissions.net/ (San Francisco, CA)
• Designed UI interface
• Software: Photoshop

San Francisco Garden Club http://www.sanfranciscogardenclub.org/ (San Francisco, CA)
• Designed graphic monthly newsletter layout for print
• Software: Photoshop, InDesign

Austin Oaks Hospital (Austin, TX)
• Created branding identity
• Software: Illustrator

Senior Home Care, Synergy Home Care & Med Tech Services (Orlando, FL)
• Create information architecture, sitemap
• Designed user interface and flash banners
• Software: Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Omnigraffle

A.C. Lewis YMCA (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
• Created design layouts for facility renovation
• Software: Illustrator

Southern University National Alumni (Baton Rouge, LA)
• Designed university annual alumni booklets
• Software: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign

Beacon Behavioral Health (Baton Rouge, LA)
• Designed branding identity
• Software: Illustrator

Designed graphic newsletter layout for print

Design advance user website interface for nonprofit
http://www.huckleberryyouth.org/home.html

• Competitive Analysis, personas, marketing research reports

• Created visual mockup prototypes, information architecture, wireframes, sitemap, workflows, user case scenarios

• Evaluated functionality through usability testing, reporting and analysis

• Poster layouts, create online style guides and branding bible

• Projects Include: PeLiMe, The StoryChest, Adobe, AdMeld, ATP Tennis

• Software: Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign

Designed/Developed corporate identity, screensavers, trade show displays, HR newspaper publication ads, website and other promotional and printed materials.