OPEN TO FULL-TIME AND CONTRACT OPPORTUNITIES
Experience UX Designer
Hello... My Name is Karhan Jones
businessconsultant@divi.com
(255) 352-6259
I am an experienced UX/UI designer with over 10 years of building digital products to understand user needs and knack for solving complex problems. I am a self-motivated individual who enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams leading designs for projects at every stage, focusing on strategy, research, and implementation.
Top Skills: Design System • Customer Experience • Design Patterns • Strategic Planning
Case Studies
Complaint Manager Application/Public Data Dashboard
Product Design Lead
Complaint Manager Application that allows user to log, monitor, track, investigate complaints for correctional systems. Led the design strategy, co-facilitating workshops, and delivering UX/UI design artifacts that drive end-to-end quality design solutions to improve the digital experience
PFF Sport Betting App
UX/UI Design, Visual Design, Prototyping, Design System, User Research Activities,
Delivered a product design strategy focus on research driven insights around NFL better data insights. Incorporate Design Sprints with rapid prototyping to run user testing sessions help gather contextual inquiries to validate hypotheses and assumptions.
Proxima NCLH Design System/Documentation Site
Lead Product Designer: Discovery, Strategy, User Interviews, UX/UI Design, Design Tokens
Delivered a centralized design system and Documentation site to improve UI consistency and quality, reduce redundancy, and create a unified experience across the Proxima applications. Product teams can focus on solutions based on a common set of shared principles, best practices, and ever evolving design guidelines to drive design decisions.
NCR: Retail Mobile Shopper
Lead Product Designer: Discovery, Strategy, User Interviews, UX/UI Design, Design Tokens
Partner with the Retail team to redesign the Retail Mobile Shopper to improve user experience by providing frictionless experience across IOS/Android mobile devices.
I led the product design and worked closely with Retail Product team to establish a designs solutions internal/external Stakeholders for White-labeling the product mobile app.
Work Experience
2020 - Present
ThoughtWorks
Lead UX Design Consultant - Current | Senior UX Design Consultant
Thoughtworks (NASDAQ: TWKS), a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering to drive digital innovation.
Product-led multiple accounts, worked with leading experts on agile software delivery, built greenfield projects with collaborative teams, and utilized best practices, methods, processes, and deliverables throughout the UX product design cycle.
Clients worked with: Norwegian Cruise line, Professional Football Focus, Ritchie Brothers Auctioneers, Kroger Grocery Retail, Veteran Affairs, Cyderes Cybersecurity, Hawaii Oversight Correctional System
Strategy/Skills: Design Leadership | Design System| Design Ops| UI Components for Internal Tools | Usability Testing | Iterative Design| User flows | Information Architecture | Design Prioritization
2016 - 2020
NCR
UX Designer II
NCR is a global payment transaction company that provides software, hardware, and services for banks, retailers, restaurants, small businesses.
I led and support UI/UX design efforts for multiple digital products consist of back-office mobile, IOS/Android mobile apps, Self Service kiosk, consumer web application supporting industries including hospitality, retail, and financial
2011 - 2016
Creflo Dollar Ministries
Lead Web Designer
Creflo Dollar Ministries (CDM) is a Christian non-profit global outreach ministry helping and empowering people in need.
Led and managed daily web operations include design, development, and maintaining web content for US/ International multiple websites and e-commerce.
2009- Present
OmarJones Designs
Principal /Creative Design Consultant
OmarJones Designs is an independent Digital design studio creating digital products; web design, mobile app, and branding design for small business, startups or Solo-preneurs.
Skills & Expertise
Discovery
Evaluate and review your business, service, or idea by conducting User research to implement an effective design strategy
User Experience
Evaluate and review your business, service, or idea by conducting User research to implement an effective design strategy
Visual Design
The essential phase of the design process to assure application is accessible to and usable by everyone. We’ll design the UI applying the brand colors to define brand style theme.
Design System / Design Ops
A unified and centralized design system to help teams achieve high consistency, efficiency, and scalability when building digital products in shared language to drive visual consistency across different applications
Generative AI
Experimenting Generative AI disovery opportunites to automate the UX design process