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Ryder Fitzpatrick

UX | UI Designer
San Francisco , CA
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ryderfitz.com
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RyderFitz@gmail.com
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(805) 637 - 6372
Hi, I'm Ryder. I'm a designer, collaborator, and a great communicator. I approach design challenges with discipline and imagination to produce compelling solutions.
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Work Experience

Morrison Travel Agency

UX | UI Consultant
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Dec 2016 - Current

I work with a visual designer to offer UX guidance on new features. My main responsibility is to make sure that the overall visual design is following great UX practices and works for users by testing.

  • User flows
  • Screen by screen UX recommendations
  • Card sorting / navigation design

Literator

UX / UI Designer
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Nov 2016 - Nov 2016

Literator is an app that helps teachers track their students reading levels in K-6. Design sprint that developed organizational features to aid key tasks & improve user retention.

  • Design Guidelines
  • Define problem statement and generate solutions
  • Quickly understand business goals
  • User testing & ideating solutions
  • Conduct user research
  • Affinity mapping / target user persona

Classical Guitar Instructor and Performer

Instructor / Performer
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Jan 2012 - Jun 2016

Dedicated guitar and music theory instructor to young and professional students looking to increase their love and technical skills with the guitar. Created professional, fully envisioned shows that featured various themes.

  • Created artist branding
  • Social marketing and promoting
  • Print design / poster design

Education

AR / VR Academy

Designing for Virtual Reality
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Oct 2016 - Dec 2016

6 week part-time course with ARVR Academy learning about AR / VR design/development. Outcomes was to designing a VR app for the Google Cardboard using Unity.

General Assembly

User Experience Design Immersive
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Jul 2016 - Oct 2016

A 10 week program teaching the latest theories, techniques, and design tools from top UX practitioners with a variety of client facing projects.

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Master of Music Music Performance
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Aug 2015 - Jun 2016

SFCM is one of the most elite music schools in the country. Graduate studies in

classical guitar performance attended on scholarship.

CSU Northridge

Bachelor of Music Music Performance
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Aug 2010 - May 2014

Accepted under a performance scholarship, awarded multiple merit based scholarships and won performance competitions.

Projects

Educational Solar System Model

UX / VR Designer
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Nov 2016 - Dec 2016

The class project we worked on was to create an education Solar System VR experience using the Unity 5 engine for the Google Cardboard.

Cole Hardware

UX / UI Designer
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Oct 2016 - Oct 2016

San Francisco-based hardware store in need of a website redesign. I focused on

bringing their store mission into the website with modern design elements as well as bring their "in-store" brand voice to their online store.

Artist Branding

Visual Designer
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Jan 2016 - Apr 2016

Created an engaging concept for a classical guitar concert complete with a consistent theme that aims to attract millennials and marginalized classical concert attendees.

Skills

  • Problem Solving / Strategic Thinking
  • Wireframes / mockups / prototypes
  • Research Synthesis
  • Sketch
  • Adobe Illustrator / Photoshop CC
  • HTML / CSS