My name is Natacha Schiettekatte or for short, Tash. I'm a UX designer currently living in the UK, however, my home is split across the world between Canada and Costa Rica.
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I have a passion for travelling, tennis, yoga, meeting new people, and reading. In the design world, I specialise in delivering the best possible user experience within web and mobile platforms.
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Contact me at: tash.schiettekatte.designs@gmail.com or you can send me a message here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natachaschiettekatte/
UX Designer
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To take projects from a problem state through to development and iteration by doing the following dependant on the project scope and need: user flows, conceptual diagrams, sketches, wireframes, high fidelity designs, and prototypes for both mobile and web products that meet accessibility standards.
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To work with the Research and Product teams to develop user needs and gather insights by turning the findings into solutions that will improve the platform's experience and business requirements.
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To work with Product team to validate sketched or wireframed concepts & refine their full product journeys to develop them into high definition screens & prototypes.
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To work closely alongside cross-functional teams and stakeholders within an Agile methodology to develop the solutions starting with MVP & re-iterate after feedback.
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To lead the redesign of the mobile app with our remote developer team.
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To define user-centred concepts and components that support business objectives across the website and app platforms.
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To run Design Workshops & lead the Research Improvement Community as a means to gather collaborative ideas across the business & gain insights from our users to iterate solutions based on user needs.
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To work with Front-End developers to establish a cross-team DSM guideline that defines layout, typography, colours, spacings and ideate a plan on how to adapt older areas of the site with new user-centred and accessible UI components.
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Programs used on a daily basis: Sketch, InVision, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Slack, Jira, Confluence.
U Account
Designer - UX Specialist
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To design user-centred concepts that support business objectives across the website and app platforms in an Agile methodology.
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To work closely alongside cross-functional teams and stakeholders to build requirements and ideate user flows for roadmap items within the business.
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To develop conceptual diagrams, sketches, wireframes, high fidelity designs, and prototypes for both mobile and web products.
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To develop and accommodate the UX Design Principles as the business moves into a more Agile way of working and developing.
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To develop and help bridge the gap between design and development by establishing a DSM for new, user centred and accessible UI components with a defined typography, colour and layout across the platforms.
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To work alongside the Marketing Department to develop brand campaigns that feature web visuals, gifs and videos that are in line with the brand and help tell the story of who U Account is.
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To work closely with Marketing and Product to develop a consistent voice and visual style within the web platforms and social branding.
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To write UX-lead posts within the tech-blog: https://tech.uaccount.uk/2018/01/15/my-cards-ux.html
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Programs used on a daily basis: Sketch, InVision, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Slack, Jira, Confluence.
Sports Direct
Junior Web Designer
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To design user-centred concepts and components that support business objectives and project briefs across the website and app platforms.
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To work alongside the Marketing Department to create brand campaigns that feature web visuals, gifs and videos that are in line with the brand.
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To begin defining a new brand styling for the web and mobile app platforms as well as social media campaigns.
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To work alongside the Product team to review and redesign past sections within the web and application platforms to match updated user-centred concepts.
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Programs used on a daily basis: Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Jira, Confluence.
Digital Designer
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To work alongside the Front-End development and Marketing team to create engaging graphics built around specific promotions or seasons such as Wimbledon, Christmas, new flagship products, etc. These would be used on both front of site, landing pages and within email promotions in accordance to brand and product standards.
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To work with cross-functional teams to run marketing campaigns, selecting the theme and products, help run the photography session and design the promotional material for the front-of-site and email graphics.
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To create daily promotional e-mails and translate them into Spanish, French, and German versions to customers within the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
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To design e-mail layouts and templates for specific brands, general website promotions, and social media marketing.
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To update the content of the company's portfolio of websites via CMS.
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To edit HTML content for website and email material using Adobe Dreamweaver.
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Programs used on a daily basis: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Trello