Steve Sanshwe

Senior User Experience Designer passionate about applying UCD principles to solve complex enterprise technology problems, with elegant design solutions. I strive to design user centric products and balance tensions between business requirements, product owners and engineering resources.

CONTACT

http://sanshwe.co 

Brooklyn, New York

EXPERIENCE

Yext, New York — Senior User Experience Designer

MAY 2018 - PRESENT

Senior User Experience Designer leading Knowledge Graph design projects at Yext. The Knowledge Graph platform is the source of truth for brands to store public facing data.  Projects include: Graph database design explorations, Custom entity types & sections, Data Suggestions and Bulk Upload/Update Workflows.

TripleLift, New York — UX & UI Product Designer

OCT 2012 - FEB 2018

Principal user experience and user interface designer working in  collaboration with product managers, business stakeholders and engineering teams for demand side and supply side platforms.

Demand-side projects: Manage services UI, CPC Performance UI, Wizard 1, Wizard 2, Ad preview tools, Audit UI.  Portfolio URL Link

Supply-side projects: Publisher exchange UI, Adserver/ Direct UI, Private Marketplace - Deals, Private Marketplace - Packages, Ad Quality Controls / Creative Review centre. Portfolio URL Link

Web design & development: TripleLIft home site, Native Academy (Educational CMS), Partners Centre (Resource portal).

Hello Sunday Morning, Australia — Design & Digital Director

JAN 2011 - DEC 2012

Platform development, research, data management, communication strategies, and advertising campaigns for a non-profit org helping people improve their relationship with alcohol via an online community platform.

Smart Artz, Australia — Graphic Designer & Facilitator

DEC 2010 - JUL 2011

Facilitated design thinking workshops across schools in Brisbane, Australia and also provided art direction and branding at a funded non-profit org.

SIMJEN, Australia — Graphic Designer

JAN 2010 - DEC 2010

Design and style guides for two print magazines, marketing collateral and websites for 30+ businesses.

SKILLS

User Centered Design Principles for user research and design.

Workflows, wireframes, prototyping, design system development.

Agile, SCRUM and Kanban processes via Jira

Sketch, Invision, Pendo, Usertesting.com, Adobe Suite, Photography.

HTML/CSS, Wordpress.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Creative Industries, Communication & Interaction Design with Distinction, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
2007 - 2011

Bachelor of Business majoring in Advertising, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
2007 - 2011

COURSES

The Design Thinking Master Class Studio Project  
Design Gym
SEP 2014 - NOV 2014

User Experience Design
General Assembly
NOV 2013