My name is Darien. I'm a designer from Newburgh, NY. Since I was young I've had a curiosity for creation. In the past, I have explored areas such as drawing, music, and industrial design. This curiosity eventually introduced me to visual design. I fell in love & decided to pursue a career in the field. From December 2015 to May 2015 I got my feet wet with designing websites and applications at 215 Marketing.

In May 2015 I graduated from Philadelphia University where I completed interdisciplinary courseload ranging from traditional art to web development. From Oct 2015 to Aug 2017 I worked on designing an array of mobile and web applications for industries such as health and wellness, construction, education, and finance at SWARM. In July 2018 I worked at an investment bank to push their digital experience forward. In July 2019 I began working at Lifion by ADP to grow their design system.

Skills & Capabilities

Although my career path is Interface Design I tend to explore other mediums and ways of making in my free time. Below are some of the skills I have utilized and have began learning.

Javascript
React JS
HTML5
CSS3
Sass
Sketch
Figma
Principle for Mac
Wireframing
Sitemaping
Story Boarding
Information Architecture
Adobe CC
Invision
Video Editing
Requirements Gathering
Motion Graphics
C#
Three JS
3D Design
Unity
Photography
Illustration
Ableton
Music Theory

Employment History

A few of the places I've worked. I'm available for work, hire me!

September 21 - March 23

Product Designer

Olive Jersey City, NJ

  • Designed a delivery experience for a sustainable delivery company.
  • Worked with loose requirements to deliver high fidelity designs to hand off to engineering
  • Collaborated with product on features and release schedulese

July 2019 - September 2021

UX Designer (Design Systems)

Lifion by ADP New York, NY

  • Created design concepts for components and forward looking experiences
  • Built prototypes using html, CSS, and Javascript
  • Handed off designs to developers in a common language, code
  • Built websites to act as channels for housing educational content and promoting the design system using React, Gatsby, and Graphql
  • Helped craft our first design token library

July 2018 - January 2019

UI/UX Contractor

Capco New York, NY

  • Designed mobile and web experience for their Capital Markets & Investment Bankers
  • Created wireframes and hi-fidelity prototypes
  • Prepared and conducted usability sessions to recieve feedback on and better inform our design decisions
  • Created IA and flow diagrams to document navigation, structure, and workflows
  • Visualized data to drive insights and productivity

August 2017 - July 2018

Freelance

New York, NY

  • Produced visual and UX designs for web and mobile products
  • Produced low and high fidelity prototypes
  • Developed UI of responsive web tool

October 2015 - August 2017

UI Designer

SWARM New York, NY

  • Designed functional wireframes & visually pleasing interfaces
  • Created storyboards and prototypes
  • Produced motion graphic content
  • Assisted in front-end development

December 2014 - May 2015

Interactive designer

215 Marketing Philadelphia, PA

  • Created wireframes responsive websites and mobile applications
  • Created storyboards and prototypes
  • Prepared assets and files for hand-off to development