Portfolio | Bri Pizana

Thanks for stopping by, I guess you want to hear from me now so here you go.

I'm a user experience designer based in the San Fransisco Bay Area. I enjoy the relationship between technology, research, and design. I have purple hair, I'm not afraid to open the terminal, and I don't wear cool glasses. I design brands, mobile apps, websites and I can draw a pretty sweet dragon.

In the past, I've had the opportunity to work for a lot of excellent companies. A couple of them being, the Seattle Gay News where I designed reading experiences for their worldwide reader base, and Design Imports where I designed custom products for companies like Spirit Halloween, Wegmans, and Cracker Barrel.

I am wide-spanned in my T-shaped skill sets with specialized in user experience. I like taking on challenges in projects and I find solving UX problems extremely exciting.

EXPERIENCE

User Experience Designer

Apple June 2018 - Present

Create and manage sketch libraries and data sets for internal tools maximizing meaningful design time.
Collaborate with other designers, developers, business teams and stakeholders to create kick-ass products that increase overall productivity.
Create app icons for macOS and iOS apps, asses app metrics, usage, design and goals to redesign effectively.
Support developers by answering questions and produce detailed documentation about how interactions and systems should work.

Freelance Design

July 2017 - Present Luckless Digital & Design Imports

Rebranding, Design new on-brand visual elements focusing on messaging and brand.
Remotely meet with clients to determine design vision, scopes of work, budgets and deliverable timeframes.
Manipulate images to promote company offerings.
Ux (surveys, research, user interviews, personas, wireframes, high fidelity mockups, ab testing) and visual design (information architecture, branding, style guide, pixel perfect design in Sketch, redlines, basic front-end coding for prototype).

Product Designer

Design Imports August 2016 - July 2017

Design four-color and spot color products, rescaled and crop images using Photoshop, and compile client data into need formats for vendors.
Develop and design products for stores like Wegmans, Nordstrom Rack, Bed Bath & Beyond, Spirit Halloween, and Cracker Barrel.
Designed presentations of products for sales department
Prepared and sent final artwork to vendors to produce.

Designer

Seattle Gay News Feb. 2016 - July 2016

Designed reader experience by developing layouts that create a more natural experience.
Prepared and sent final newspaper layout to printer.
Created layout templates cutting design time by 50%.

Skills

User Testing
Prototyping
Sketching
User Stories
Persona
User Flows
Wireframes
Style Guide
Visual Design

Tools

Illustrator
Photoshop
InDesign
AfterEffects
Sketch
InVision
Git
HTML&CSS
Javascript

Education

UX Design 2017 - 18
Bloc

Graphic Design AAS | 2013 - 15
Seattle Central Creative Academy

Graphic Arts 2012 - 13
Academy of Art U

Lets Connect

Connect with me on LinkedIn, tell me what you think! Follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to learn more about me. Also feel free to email me or download my resume.

Reviews

Kristin M. (VP of Design at Design Imports)

“Bri has been a key part of our team as a product designer. She has exhibited strong abilities in a wide range of artistic styles as needed to adapt to individual customer requirements and needs, not always an easy task! Bri joined our team at a very busy time and stepped in a learned the ropes quickly and made a difference right away. She has been a great asset to the team.”

Michael M.

“She is professional, creative, and effective creating designs and graphics that fulfill the ‘over-the-top cute’ feel of the app. I am already planning to work with her again on a business website for a client.”