Sola Babatunde

UI Designer • Graphic Designer • New York, NY, US

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UI/UX Design

Web Development

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UX/UI Designer that THRIVES in startups💻 Ex Facebook, Adobe, Airbnb, & Microsoft from NYU

Portfolio password is "k1ng" 💼 About Me: With 4.5 years' experience and a UX design Master's from NYU, I excel in modern design for web and mobile. I've worked at Meta, Microsoft, Airbnb, and Upflex, specializing in UX/UI design and usability testing. 🌟 Expertise: Skilled in hosting usability tests and QA on platforms like UserTesting.com. My academic background includes research labs, and I thrive in small team environments, delivering top-notch results independently. 🚀 Why Choose Me: I bring a unique blend of academic rigor and practical experience to every project, ready to transform your vision into a seamless digital reality. Let's innovate together!

Projects

UX/UI Portfolio

This is my portfolio! The password for the first layer is "k1ng". If you want a project with a specific password after, please reach out to me! I'll share it asap!See More

Work History

UX Designer III

ToyotaJul 2022 - Present • 2 yrs 3 mosAsk me about Toyota

UX / UI Designer II (Contractor)

MicrosoftSep 2021 - Jun 2022 • 10 mosGenerally: Lead & oversaw end to end flows for user experience design & user interaction design at all stages of designing including ideation, testing & shipping Product Experience: Converted broad stakeholder ideas into actionable KPIs based on strategic goals for the team & company with feedback Interaction Design: Applied several human centered design processes ( ranging from double diamond to Lean UX to ABET engineering processes ) to redesign features, pages, and user flows Interface Design: Lead collaboration with adjustments to typography on web design, altered the layout, and proposed new aesthetic illustrations that fit into the design system. Cloud Studio Team | Consumer | Web: Collaborated with product, engineering, accessibility, content strategy, & contractors to ideate & ship alterations to products to improve user retention. Internal Tools Team | Enterprise | Web: Redesigned & documented 31 components so far with usage tips, blue lines, and red lines.

UX / UI Designer

AdobeJul 2021 - Sep 2021 • 2 mosGenerally : Created wireframes, prototypes, designed user research workshops to gather insights. Documented new accessibility guidelines for the team to follow after my internship for first time & visually impaired users. Premiere Pro | Enterprise | Web : Shipped several desktop new, automated features to improve searchability. Decreased clicks 40% of clicks with new components. Premiere Pro | Consumer | Mobile : Revised data importing flow for new & visually impaired users. Agile Design Work : Applied an agile development process that relied on user feedback and application testing. Created and shared custom written documents

UX / UI Designer

Airbnb Apr 2021 - Jun 2021 • 3 mosGenerally: Applied several Human-Centric design processes for developing end to end user interfaces for 2 consumer & 2 enterprise teams. Onboarding | Consumer | Mobile | Web: Redesigned onboarding process to be accessible & yielded 5% more successful log in from guests & hosts & 20% increase in bot detection. Design System | Consumer | Mobile | Web: Tested, iterated, shipped & documented 2 new Design System Components. Introduced "conditional" component variants for users that have web accessibility mode turned on for their devices and browsers. Data Subject Rights | B2B & B2C | Web: Minimized the number of clicks by 10 for requesting Data Subject Rights. Saved $21,000 per month while reducing customer service represented requests. Updated the out of date design system. Presentation Design: Used communication tools like Keynote, Sharepoint & PowerPoint online. Writing Design: Created user interactions & user interface guidelines for designers & engineers to use

UX Engineer Intern

GoogleMay 2020 - Aug 2020 • 3 mosGenerally : Designed automated software features. Lead 14 user tests and the end to end UX design process. Permissions System | Enterprise | Web : Decreased wait times from 3-5 days to 0-1 days. Revised the permission sharing and updating process for all managers to streamline onboarding, team switching & offboarding. Pixel Buds Redesign | Consumer | Web : Redesigned the implementation of several web components to make it more accessible to those with visual and internet speed impairments. Lead design sprints to aid information verification for visually impaired individuals. Specialties : Managed status changes and interface updates for the development of web applications

Product Designer

Meta ( Facebook at the time ) May 2019 - Aug 2019 • 4 mosGenerally : Worked closely with PMs, Engineers, & Marketers to simplify enterprise team processes by 20 clicks Business Ads Growth | B2B & B2C | Web : Redesigned the process of creating help requests for consumers, businesses, and employees. Decreased number of clicks by 40% and decreased help request time by 3-4 days with cross functional team initiatives with Marketing & Customer Reps. Facebook Dating | Consumer | Web : in my free time, I designed, researched, presented, & tested 4 new features for Web Facebook Dating

Education

New York University

Graduate Degree, Computer ScienceSep 2021

Texas A&M University

Bachelor's Degree, Mechatronics Engineering Aug 2014 - May 2018

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