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ILIA DE LEON

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PRODUCT DESIGNER

Sustainable Progress & Equality Collective (SPEC)

Oct 2021 - Present

Product Design Leadership:

  • Led design initiatives for external clients, ensuring impactful project outcomes.

  • Efficiently managed projects from inception to completion, optimizing design workflows for client satisfaction and heightened brand visibility. 

Collaborative Team Contributor:​

  • Actively participated in cross-functional teams, offering valuable design insights across concurrent projects. 

  • Fostered collaboration to enhance overall team efficiency  and project success. ​

Client- Centric Design Solutions:

  • Engaged closely with clients to understand their needs and preferences. 

  • Delivered visually compelling solutions aligning with client brand identities. 

Skills: User Experience (UX) | Web Design | Figma | Visual Studio Code | Responsive Web Design | Google Workspace | Social Media Management | ChatGPT | Mattermost / Project Management | UX Research |Collaboration Tools (Slack, Trello, GitHub)

UX RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

RAND CORPORATION / CENTER FOR ADVANCED RACIAL EQUITY POLICY

Dec 2021 - Oct 2023

Game Design Support:

  • Assisted lead game designer in ideationand asset iteration for a gaming project. 

  • Conducted research during the conceptualization stage to inform decision-making. 

Website Development:​

  • Collaborated on the creation of a website showcasing projects and research associates through the SPEC/RAND partnership. 

Ethical Research Certification:

  • Achieved Human Research certification through CITI, demonstrating expertise in ethical research practices. 

Skills: UX Research | Gaming | Educational Technology | Web Development | Microsoft Teams | Midjourney | Figma | Responsive Web Design

UX DESIGNER AND RESEARCHER

buildJUSTLY

Jan 2022 - Feb 2023

Desktop Application Design:

  • Led the advancement of desktop application designs through iterative refinement. 

User-Centric Design Insights:​

  • Utilized insights from user interviews and survey data to inform and drive design decisions. 

Prototyping Expertise:

  • Developed prototypes for both responsive websites and desktop applications. 

Industry Collaboration:

  • Presented design concepts to a leading tech company, contributing to impactful decision-making. 

Skills: Notion | Microsoft Teams | Web Design | Figma | Web Services

UX DESIGNER

Data Umbrella

Jan 2022 - Feb 2023

Webinar Presentation:

  • Presented at a live webinar for the Data Umbrella Community. 

  • "Figma for Beginners: Using Figma for Data and Applications"

  • 45 minute live presentation and walk through on the Figma app

Stakeholder Collaboration:​

  • Collaborated closely with external stakeholders to meet project requirements. 

Responsive Website Design:

  • Crafted a comprehensive, multi-page responsive website design. 

Development Team Collaboration:

  • Partnered with the development team to implement design concepts effectively. 

Skills: Google Docs | Google Drive | Slack | Discord | Github | Figma

USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN

General Assembly

INFORMATION SCIENCE & POLICY

University at Albany SUNY

RECENT WORK

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SPEC

Improve the user experience and address usability concerns.

RESPONSIVE    |   MARKETING   |    BRANDING

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DATA UMBRELLA

Build an open source event board platform that will be free for the data science community to share their events

SEARCH    |   SUBSCRIPTION   |    BRANDING

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RAND/CAREP

Highlight the Research Associates and showcase all the projects that were completed during the RAND x SPEC collaboration.

MARKETING

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BUILDJUSTLY

Validate whether the US Hispanic population is a viable segment for Microsoft to target for growth.

RESEARCH

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SPEC

Design social media images, conference post cards, stickers, t-shirts for digital and printed marketing.

MARKETING    |    BRANDING    |    SOCIAL MEDIA

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