Patch Leishman
Highly creative and multi-talented generalist User Experience Designer. Passionate about user experience, quality design, white space, and typography.
SKILLS
- Collaboration
- Concept modeling
- CSS
- Email design
- Graphic facilitation
- Grid
- High fidelity prototyping
- HTML
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- InVision
- Layout
- Personas
- Photoshop
- Print design
- Responsive design
- Scenarios
- Sitemaps
- Sketch
- Storyboarding
- Strategy development
- Task flows
- Usability testing
- Video Editing
- Wireframes
EXPERIENCE
UX Designer
Freelance | 2013 – current
My role as product designer in my freelance work is one of many hats. I am responsible for all aspects of user experience, design, and development. Through my efforts, I have seen all companies continue to grow, and traffic to their websites have consistently been increasing, especially on mobile devices.
Responsibilities:
- Utilize UX principles to drive design decisions
- Study and apply current design trends to cross platform products
- Create user flows, personas, sitemaps, storyboards, sketches
- Design low and high quality mockups based on research
- Advocate for the user to stakeholders
- Design stunning high quality prototypes for dev and testing
- Product Strategy & User Research: I strive to understand each clients business goals and user needs by facilitating user interviews, usability testing, writing surveys, content restructuring, user flow, storyboarding, and creating personas.
- UX Design: I incorporate my design background into the UX process. My knowledge touches every point of the project such as; early designs, business needs, feature definition, information architecture, sketching, copy writing, prototyping and iterating, and high fidelity final designs.
UX Designer
Automotive Workwear | 2015 – current
Utilizing UX principles, I generate concepts for multiple responsive e-commerce sites. Using the latest design trends I create functional and aesthetically pleasing experiences for the user. I work with different departments to design solutions that meet business goals and user needs.
Responsibilities:
- Utilize UX principles to drive design decisions
- Design mobile friendly web experiences
- Prioritize tasks while meeting quick turnaround times
- Study and apply current design trends to a variety of projects
- Create user journeys, personas, sitemaps, storyboards, sketches
- Design low and high quality mockups based on research
- Advocate for the user to stakeholders
- Refine SaaS based ecommerce experiences
- Understand business needs to deliver solutions
My designs, and competencies in UX, have lead to:
- Increased revenue from email campaigns and sitewide promotions
- A consistent experience among all devices
- Managing the site has become easier now that the platform is responsive
- Increased Google search rank due to responsive design changes
- Better user experience
Visual Designer
Ideaville | 2014 – 2015
I designed several WordPress websites, as well as print material for a major healthcare company. I worked within a team environment to produce designs based on user research and iterative processes.
My work on the Modern Domestic website has lead to:
- Increased sign-ups for classes
- Increased revenue for purchasing sewing machines
- More attendance in store and at events
- Higher brand recognition and retention of repeat customers
EDUCATION
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN GRAPHIC DESIGN Oregon State University | 2010 – 2014
I graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design with a minor in new media communications. During my time at OSU, I held several design internships, started the AIGA student group, and served as President of that group for two years. I also graduated with the SDHE Scholar Award for Dean’s list standing, and the SHDE All-Star Award for exemplary leadership and design skills.
Noteworthy achievements in college:
- Co-Founded, and served as President of the AIGA Student Group
- Lead as team leader for several projects
- Presented to the College of Business, and other professional business leaders in the Portland, OR business market
- SDHE All-Star & Scholar Awards (for outstanding academic achievement)
CERTIFICATIONS
Human-Centered Design: an Introduction
- Coursera: Certification Date Nov 2015
UX Foundations: Prototyping
- LinkedIn: Apr 2021
UX Foundations: Multidevice Design
- LinkedIn: Apr 2021
UX Foundations: Paper Prototyping
- LinkedIn: Apr 2021
UX Foundations: Ideation
- LinkedIn: Apr 2021
UX Foundations: Creating Personas
- LinkedIn: Apr 2021
UX Foundations: Analyzing User Data
- LinkedIn: Apr 2021
UX Foundations: Overview
- LinkedIn: Apr 2021
UX Foundations: Planning A Career in User Experience
- LinkedIn: Apr 2021
Empathy in UX Design
- LinkedIn: Apr 2021
Sketch for UX Design
- LinkedIn: May 2021
Illustrator for UX Design
- LinkedIn: May 2021
Become a User Experience Designer
- LinkedIn: May 2021