Risi Zani

Hello, I'm Risi!
I have 6+ years of experience in the design industry, with 3 of those years in software design. I also have an honour of Bachelor in Interaction Design from Sheridan.

After work, you'll find me writing my sci-fi book, playing league, starting my small gift shop and spending time with my favourite furballs: Ghost, Storm Trooper & Snowball.

Curious about my collection hobbies?
View hobbies here

The cities I've visited, the friends I've made and the furballs I raised helped me become a designer who is empathetic to all and always listens first.

Work Experience

Product Designer

June 2022 - August 2023

Product Designer at Rocket Doctor, a virtual medical clinic in a start-up environment. As the sole designer, I collaborate with developers, our patient portal care team, and marketing to develop user-friendly designs starting from nothing or building on our new software. Conducting frequent user testing, and developing user flows, high-fi mockups, and prototypes on innovative and large projects.

UX/UI Product Design

Nov 2020 - June 2022

UX/UI Designer at Wellness Living, a software-as-a-service company. Developing user experiences and user interfaces, user flows, and personas, conducting user tests, and re-designing the software following a design system and website design. On a daily basis, I collaborate with project managers, actively communicating and advocating for user-friendly methods. Worked on multiple large projects in booking flows, website builder, and more. In other ways, I bring my enthusiasm, drive, and desire to help to my team.

Designer

May. 2020 - Aug. 2021

Designer and co-founder at Pixbyte, a graphic & web design service. Developed website designs, branding guidelines, social media posts, business stationery and signs in tandem with other businesses with a co-founder. Developed UX/UI and landing page workshops for other small businesses.

UX/UI Web Design

2017 - 2019 | 2 Years Experience in a high-end German kitchen cabinetry company. Consulted and developed the re-branding for the business. Optimized the user interface, experience, SEO, and marketing aspects for their two websites. Single-handedly managed social media and produced graphic design content for marketing purposes. Was a crucial role in making marketing decisions in tandem with the owners of the company.

Education

Interaction Design Honors of Bachelor

April 2021

Product design, UX/UI, Front-end development, user research, physical computing, databases, graphic design, & more. Sheridan is the pioneer of the Interaction Design degree in Ontario.

Hackathons & more

Hackathons

Hack Instead 2020
1st at RBC Amplify 2019
2nd at McMaster Designathon 2019
Nuvo Network/United Way 2019
Adobe Creative Jam 2018 & 2019
Gift the Code 2018

Other

Pixbyte Design - Co-founder 2020
uDesign President - Sheridan 2020-2021
User Research - Ministry of Labour 2019
User Research - Nuvo Network 2018

Skills

User experience & User Interface
Digital Painting
Visual Design
Typography
Video & Photo Editing

Software

Adobe XD
Sketch
Figma
Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Illustrator, After effects, Premiere, InDesign
3D Software: Blender, Rhino, Unity (learning), 4D Cinema

Code

HTML 5, Css, Sass & Javascript

Got to catch them all! Hobbies List

Why all the hobbies? Since I was a kid I have been fascinated about how things are made, so I wanted to see how and do it myself.

Creative Writing ( Write a min of 600 words per day)
PC Building
Coding, specifically random generators
Laser engraving
Digital Painting
Book cover design
Video editing
Gaming
3D Modeling
Interior Decorating ( I have a diploma )
Photography
Baking
Vocal
Marker colouring ( I have over 100 Copic markers )
Painting
Scrapbooking with Instax photos