Experience

• Design Sprints: Lead sessions with clients to define project objectives, identify user frustrations and goals, and enhance user experience while aligning with business needs.
• UI/UX Design: Create and iterate on sketches, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups, incorporating feedback from product owners and stakeholders.
• Implementation: Develop and implement design systems, style guides, and prototypes using Mendix Modeller, SCSS (web apps), and React Native (mobile apps).
• Agile & Scrum: Work in Agile teams, ensuring iterative development and continuous client feedback to deliver minimum viable products at each stage.

• E-commerce UX: Improved customer journeys to enhance conversion rates and brand engagement.
• Digital Design: Created visual assets for email marketing, social media, website, and app.
• 3D Fashion Design: Designed virtual clothing for Cyberdog's digital fashion line.
• Events & Marketing: Planned and hosted live and virtual events, collaborating with marketing, events, and PR teams.
• Content Production: Assisted in post-production of images and videos for digital use.
• Market Research: Monitored industry trends and competitors to inform design and marketing strategies.
• Fast-Paced Execution: Delivered creative solutions under tight deadlines in a dynamic environment.

Designer, Digital Content Creator & Website Developer for a London-based music production company.

• Website design and front-end development
• Generating traffic to music content through Facebook and Google ads
• Generating designs for branded content across social media
• Supporting marketing campaigns by creating website elements, social assets, landing pages, and graphics.
• Editing music videos to be released on YouTube
• Uploading music to iTunes, Spotify, TuneCore, YouTube

Working with a range of clients to design and maintain their websites.

• Kitayah Music - Music Industry
• Draper Film Academy - Charity Organisation
• Draper Together - Charity Organisation

Working with a range of clients to design and maintain their websites.

• I designed webpages for the firm's internal website
• Coded email templates that were sent out to the whole firm
• This placement gave me an understanding of what corporate office work life is like.
• Gained a wider understanding of how computer systems work
• Attended lectures demonstrating how hackers access data, and how to prevent them

Education

Projects

UAL & WaterAid collaboration. Involved pitching an experience to the client. The brief set: design an experience to increase donations through one of the three approaches: educate, activate, or intervene. We designed a 4D immersive room where people could experience the conditions in countries affected by a clean water deficit.

A collaboration between DMJX university (Copenhagen), and RMIT University (Melbourne). The project focused on online collaboration through services such as Fuze, Slack, and Appear to collaborate with teammates. During this time, I worked on a playable city brief, taking an aspect of the city and finding a way to deliver it as 'playable' for its citizens. I was invited back in March 2020 to participate as a group leader/scrum master, supervising students on their projects, making sure they stuck to schedule and being there to assist with the work produced.

Working in partnership with r0g_, UNESCO and the UN, my professor invited me to work on this project. We investigated how social media was being used during the Anglophone Crisis In Cameroon. My responsibilities included:

• Gathering data using the Facebook Graph API and Facepager
• Sorting this data into .csv files
• Discovering methods of displaying this data interactively
• Coding an interactive webpage that displayed the results, using HTML, CSS & Javascript
• Gathering data using the Facebook Graph API and Facepager
• Sorting this data into .csv files
• Discovering methods of displaying this data interactively
• Coding an interactive webpage that displayed the results, using HTML, CSS & Javascript

Short Courses

I learnt how to build a computer and learnt what the different components of a computer do, such as the motherboard, capacitors, RAM, ROM, hard drives and how to install and change, operating systems.

Skills

Adobe Creative Cloud

• Proficient in Adobe XD, InDesign
• Intermediate in Photoshop, Illustrator After Effects, Premiere Pro
• Using InDesign to create designed PDFs for project submissions. Designing magazines, posters.
• Completed an animation unit, I have a clear understanding on how After Effects works.
• Adobe XD, creating prototypes of web/app interfaces and sharing them clients.

Communication

• My degree has had a major influence on my communication skills.
• I’ve been the recipient of many critiques and am confident when it comes to presenting my work.
• Critiques have developed my communication skills and on the spot thinking.

Languages - English, Albanian & French

• Albanian is my mother tongue. I am fluent in the Gheg dialect.
• I studied French at school, and obtain a GCSE in the language.