Risi Zani

Product Designer

Jan 2022 - Current

Product Designer at Humenentics, a Crash-test software, running in a start-up environment. As the second product designer, I pioneered a UX research process and work in collaboration with project managers, engineering team to produce designs that are user lead. Projects include, AI chat feature, Scheduling, Advanced Search and redesign of an entire software.

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.

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

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

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