G'day Mehran & the Quantium team. My name is Flynn and I'm excited to show you why I'll be a great addition to your User Experience Design team.

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It's been a long journey to arrive at my career as a product designer. Even my Landscape Architecture scholar was built around these large-scaled, emotionally heavy issues that required a strong sense of empathy, care and experimentation.

After learning what UI/UX Design was from my partner Samko, I fell in love with the idea of finding the resolution between people and interaction.

However I craved structure and to be immersed in a learning environment with my peers. I've  gained extensive experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment. I now know how to lead projects, conduct client kick-off meetings, manage and present to stakeholders and collaborate with engineers and developers.  
The reason why I think I'll be a good fit for Quantium is because I consider myself as the Jessica Fletcher of product design (I also look like her on a really humid day). I have the observation skills it takes to investigate key insights and trends in copious amounts of data, and the communication skills to convey the data into the user's journey and deliver a solid product roadmap. I also want to sharpen my skills in the Service Design process, and I think Quantium is capable of that.

My recent claim to fame was being the project leader of my own team of developers in a 24-hour Hackathon. The experience was as exhilarating as it was caffeinated and by the time I had to present our pitch to the judges I looked a bit like Beaker from ‘The Muppets’. Here's the project.

Design Process with Examples

Here, I'm going to show you my relationship with my design thinking process along with examples of challenges I have faced as a designer.

Like most people that did the immersive at GA I was religiously taught the double diamond method. And as reliably formulaic as the double diamond is, I think it's still flexible enough to expose many design probabilities and variables. And that's what excites me.

I've referred to two case studies that I've used as an example:
Lifeblood App: Encouraging users to have a more positive attitude towards donating blood.
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ConsultXperts: A two-sided marketplace aimed at connecting experts with jobs through an online platform.

1. Discover

Empathy and creativity is the core of what I do as a designer, and what better way to empathise within a problem area is with user interviews, competitive analysis, surveys or evaluating heuristics through site analysis.
1.1 Client Kick-off Meetings
1.2 Recruiting User Interviews
1.3 Interviewing Users
1.4 Initial User Flows

2. Define

Ah yeah. This is the stage that can seem so enduring that when you finally reach the problem statement (or JTBD), it feels like you've scaled the highest mountain... If that mountain is a pile of post-its or a crashing Miro board.
2.1 Insights & Trends
2.2 Personas & Archetypes
2.3 Journey Mapping & Storyboards
2.4 Problem and 'How Might We' Statements

3. Ideation

Me at my most caffeinated. What I appreciate most about ideation is that it's an open-minded, brainstorming sesh that inches itself towards a solution. It's also that feeling of acceleration when I pick up a sharpie and reboot the Figma. I prototype quickly, I test frequently, no-brainer.

Ideation is also an opportunity to test ideas with the user and make sure we're going in the right direction and solving the right problem.
3.1 Design Studio: Crazy 8's
3.2 Paper Wireframing
3.3 Card-Sorting
3.4 Figma, Figma, Figma

4. Prototype & Deliver

And lastly is prototyping. Although not really.

At this point you're reaching for the finish line. You're at the end of the process where the only thing between you and that checkered ribbon is validating that you've resolved a user's problem. That you've placed your faith in the process while testing all iterations with the user. Did you experiment enough? Talk to enough people? Is your design intervention intuitive, seamless, does it benefit the user? Does it benefit the client? Does it benefit the product?

Welp... If the answers yes than you've fully embraced human-centred design. Koodos. What's next?
4.1 Usability Testing
4.2 Product Roadmap

I hope I've given you a glimpse as to why I think I'd be a good asset for Quantium and it's many many products. I feel like I not only garner the productivity and skills required to do the job right; but I also bring a warm and entertaining quality that can breathe life into any work environment.

Feel free to poke around my portfolio and case studies. I look forward to having a chat, showing you my skill set, and how I approach a design issue.

Thank you, Mehran & Team Q.

Sincerely,
Flynn Barbary
(He / They)
0476 121 211