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I’m Darya, a Vancouver based designer, aiming to create meaningful, empathetically derived experiences for the every day user.
A little bit
I’m Darya, a Vancouver based designer, aiming to create meaningful, empathetically derived experiences for the every day user.
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I’m a research-driven Product Designer with a formal background in Industrial Design.

Over the past few years of working as a UX/UI designer, I have learned to truly empathize with the user, while balancing the overall goals of the business. I look forward to collaborating with developers, project managers and other team members, to deliver well-thought-out digital experiences. Whether I am researching, ideating, or testing, I am always championing for the user, the business and my team.

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Design Work Experience

Product Designer

Sprout- Telus Health

06/2022- present

  • Conducting user research using a variety of methodologies and distilling insights into hypotheses for increasing user engagement.
  • Creating wireframes, mockups and prototypes that capture design solution concepts.
  • Iterating on designs based on stakeholder feedback and usability testing, steadily increasing fidelity from sketch to hi-fi prototype.
  • Defining dynamic interactions like visual feedback and transitions.
  • Applying Sprout's existing design system to make sure new user experiences are fully consistent in look and feel.
  • Translating final designs into actionable, scoped development work, including airtight acceptance criteria.
  • Helping guide development work to ensure correct implementation and pivot the design criteria when necessary.

Jr. UX/UI Designer

Art & Science Digital Marketing Agency

03/2021-5/2022

  • Creating user-friendly and responsive digital products using principles of UX/UI design.
  • Facilitating discovery sessions for users and stakeholders to clearly define goals for the business and the product experience.
  • Developing UX artifacts as needed,  such as personas, journey maps, user flows, clickable prototypes and site maps.
  • Ensuring design work is inclusive and accessible following the WCAG and AODA design requirements.
  • Working in a cross-functional, fast pace, collaborative environment.

Design Intern

Art & Science Digital Marketing Agency

09/2020-02/2021

  • Designing digital products for clients through the use of UX/UI design.
  • Establishing Style Guidelines to assist the web development team.
  • Creating ad hoc graphics, advertisements, social media content, diagrams, info graphics and illustrations for the use of Marketing, Sales, and Internal teams

Design and Marketing Intern

Oliver Apt. ( Studio Bramble)

05/2019-08/2019

  • Conducting competitive research for a new line of products.
  • Crafting a new User Flow for the website redesign.

Projects

Research and Medical Design

Stollery Children’s Hospital Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

05/2020-06/2020

  • Design of parents of children with complex heart disorders emotionally cope with their child’s appearance post heart surgery.

Research and Social Design

City of Edmonton

  • System Design for Pregnant Individuals living with homelessness.

Education

User Experience Design Certificate

Brainstation

06/ 2021- 08/2021

Bachelors of Design - Industrial Design with a Business Route

University of Alberta

09/ 2016- 06/2020

Key Skills

  • User & Stakeholder Research
  • Journey Mapping & Personas
  • Information Architecture
  • Wire-framing
  • Style guide development
  • Prototyping
  • Usability Testing
  • Basics of HTML/CSS
Get in touch

I am looking for full-time work in the field of User Experience or Product design. Please reach out to me via email or Linkedin, if you are interested in working with me.  

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