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317.727.1759
cassandratrissler@gmail.com
www.cassandratrissler.com
đź“ŤAtlanta, GA
Education
Savannah College of Art and Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Cum Laude • 2013
Skills
• Lean UX + Agile Methodology
• Design Systems + UI Kits
• Prototyping + Wireframing
• Responsive Design + Mobile
• User Research + Data Synthesis
• Usability Validation + Heuristic EvaluationÂ
• Accessibility + Sustainability
• Conversational UX
• Art Direction
• Visuals + Branding
• Motion + Interactive Design
• Documentation
Program Proficiencies
• Figma + FigJam
• Miro
• Notion
• Jira + Confluence
• Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, XD
• Google Workspace
• Microsoft Office
• Unity
Extracurriculars
• ContactPoint Afterschool Arts Teacher
2024-Present • Splatter Studio Floor Artist
2024-Present • MAGFest VRcade supervisor
2018-2020 • IDSI VR game events manager
2017-2020 Cassandra Trissler
User Experience Designer
I am a multi-faceted designer with over 8 years of experience crafting user-centered digital solutions across diverse industries, while working in fast-paced cross-functional environments. I specialize in balancing business goals with user needs, creating intuitive experiences that delight users and stakeholders.
My diverse creative background spans animation, digital advertising, graphic design, game design, and courseware development. I have a keen eye for detail and a passion for solving complex problems and delivering outcomes over outputs.
317.727.1759
cassandratrissler@gmail.com
www.cassandratrissler.com
đź“ŤAtlanta, GA
Education
Savannah College of Art and Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Cum Laude • 2013
Skills
• Lean UX + Agile Methodology
• Design Systems + UI Kits
• Prototyping + Wireframing
• Responsive Design + Mobile
• User Research + Data Synthesis
• Usability Validation + Heuristic EvaluationÂ
• Accessibility + Sustainability
• Conversational UX
• Art Direction
• Visuals + Branding
• Motion + Interactive Design
• Documentation
Program Proficiencies
• Figma + FigJam
• Miro
• Notion
• Jira + Confluence
• Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, XD
• Google Workspace
• Microsoft Office
• Unity
Extracurriculars
• ContactPoint Afterschool Arts Teacher
2024-Present • Splatter Studio Floor Artist
2024-Present • MAGFest VRcade supervisor
2018-2020 • IDSI VR game events manager
2017-2020 Cassandra Trissler
User Experience Designer
I am a multi-faceted designer with over 8 years of experience crafting user-centered digital solutions across diverse industries, while working in fast-paced cross-functional environments. I specialize in balancing business goals with user needs, creating intuitive experiences that delight users and stakeholders.
My diverse creative background spans animation, digital advertising, graphic design, game design, and courseware development. I have a keen eye for detail and a passion for solving complex problems and delivering outcomes over outputs.
Work Experience
Kin + Carta
2021 – 2023
User Experience Design Consultant
- Worked with clients such as Magellan Midstream Partners, Broadnet, Auto Approve and Starz, delivering tailored UX solutions such as enterprise software suites and SaaS product models that enhanced user engagement and satisfaction, reduced costly errors and training time, and provided more customer and user insights.
- Conducted requirements gathering, user research, and data synthesis, resulting in the development of user stories and personas that informed design decisions and improved product usability.
- Designed and prototyped lo-fi and hi-fi mockups, leading to key user insights through rapid iterative testing.
- Maintained robust communication and collaboration with fellow Designers, Dev teams, and
key stakeholders, including facilitating product reviews and demos. - Conducted UX validation and user acceptance testing, reducing post-launch issues.Â
- Presented educational sessions for design team peers, enhancing team proficiency in design system standards, Lean UX, ConvoUX and sustainability.
Highgate Training Systems
2020 – 2021
Product Designer
- Worked primarily with government clients such as the JDTC and TRADOC G-8, maintaining strict data and content privacy.
- Provided key design decisions for a government contract writing, collaboration, and management software, CART, named “the best tool to come out of TRADOC in 15 years.”
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment to deliver user-centered design solutions on time and within budget.
Intelligent Decision Systems Inc.
2016 – 2020
Product Designer/Multimedia Artist
- Provided UX Designs within an Agile development team on various interactive web apps, training courseware, and instructional designs, for government clients such as the JDTC, TRADOC G-8, and Veterans Affairs, maintaining strict data and content privacy without sacrificing delightful design and outcomes.
- Developed design and usability improvements for TRADOC’s ODIN training content system, which increased its monthly users by over 200%.
- Created visually-arresting animated and interactive courseware for Veteran’s Affairs which increased user retention and improved learner assessment scores.
- Improved TIMS legacy training systems with data-driven redesign, improving exercise creation speed by over 95%.
- Shaped the content creation for social media accounts and live promotional events, driving brand, product, and company awareness.
- Contributed to set dressing, layout and UI design, character and effects animation in Unity game engine, resulting in innovative product demos that won our company more business and accounts.
MRM Worldwide
2013 – 2015
Interactive Motion Designer
- Conceptualized engaging advertising stories and implemented them into interactive media for clients such as Verizon FiOS, USPS, Nikon, IHOP, Cigna, Zurich and more.
- Animated and produced digital advertising media through timeline and Actionscript-based processes in Adobe Flash, streamlining the process and increasing deliverable output.
- Responsible for storyboards, animation and video editing in Adobe After Effects and Premiere, leading to high-impact pre-roll video advertisements.Â
- Collaborated closely with fellow Designers, Copywriters, Project Managers and Art Directors to increase click-through rates and drive business growth.
Freelance
2013 – 2024
 UX/UI and Graphic Design
- Requirements gathering, user and product research and design exploration for several web and mobile applications, including a Bible study application, dog walking game, chef/recipe assistant application and more.Â
- Interactive development for digital marketing and advertisements for such clients as Bajibot, Synders of Hanover and more.
- Graphics, branding and logo design for various local businesses including a development company, personal trainer, candle business, mushroom magazine and more.Â
Extracurriculars
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