Aaron Wilson

Aaron Wilson

Interaction Design IxD in Los Angeles, Ca

About

My goal is to create solutions that effectively address the needs of people by thoroughly understanding their behaviors and habits.

I strive for simplicity in all my work, while always keeping the overall product vision in mind as I develop each aspect of the user journey.

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Side Projects

2023
Neuro-Behavioral Analysis

Studying the behavioral space of Human Computing Interactions.

Work Experience

2022 — 2023
Remote / Seattle, WA

During my tenure at AWS FinTech, I worked on designing enterprise software and internal tooling. Some of my responsibilities were but are not limited to:

→ Facilitated cross-functional workshops to align product vision, resulting in more cohesive design outputs.
→ Developed and implemented comprehensive research study plans that increased data accuracy by 20%.
→ Planned and executed user testing for internal tools, identifying key usability improvements that increased adoption.
→ Synthesized research findings into impactful presentations, driving executive alignment on key UX decisions.
→ Led the creation of a centralized research repository, reducing redundant research efforts by 25%.
→ Performed heuristic evaluations on internal tools, uncovering 15 usability issues and improving task efficiency by 10%.
→ Created intuitive visual designs for AWS enterprise tools, improving user satisfaction scores by 15%.
→ Validated interactions through prototype testing, ensuring a 95% task success rate during usability testing.
→ Led a team of three designers, overseeing multiple projects and ensuring timely and high-quality design deliverables.
→ Successfully led projects from concept to launch, delivering on time and increasing team productivity by 20%.
→ Reduced report search time by 16 hours per week, increasing analyst productivity by 30% and streamlining operations.

2020 — 2022
Remote / Austin, TX

GoDaddy-
→ Collaborated with GoDaddy’s UX Core team to design payment solutions for E-commerce, streamlining checkout processes.
→ Conducted and synthesized usability tests, uncovering key insights that improved the overall user experience by 15%.
→ Developed a research study plan that was adopted across teams, improving research accuracy and reducing redundancy.
→ Provided actionable insights for the research repository, increasing the team's efficiency in user data analysis.
→ Expanded and refined the core design system, integrating interactive components that improved development speed by 20%.
→ Collaborated with the engineering team to ensure the feasibility of design solutions, accelerating deployment by 15%.

Dell-
→ Enhanced Dell’s design system, defining language and guidelines that improved consistency across products by 25%.
→ Worked on a new Experience Management for IT Admin enterprise customers
Admin enterprise small business customers.
→ Led the redesign of transactional experiences in MyDell Mobile, simplifying processes and improving UX metrics by 20%.

2020 — 2020
Remote

Realtor.com -
I worked with the Huge design group handling the Realtor.com account. The objectives and goals that we worked on were to solve for and define four major brand pillars—Control, Guidance, Intelligence, and Advocacy. This was achieved by facilitating a series of brand workshops that were synthesized into digestible documentation for the stakeholders.

2019 — 2020
Culver City, Ca

I facilitated strategic alignment with clients through frameworks such as workshops to define business objectives, goals, and measurable outcomes. I helped the internal team(s) understand stakeholders, customers, and end-users. I performed qualitative and quantitative research and turn them into digestible recommendations. I also executed rapid prototyping, to fine-tune the little big details for a polished experience on many initiatives.

2017 — 2019
Remote

My primary role is oriented toward early-stage, exploratory Product Design activities as well as the facilitation of design with non-designers. I also managed and lead a design team of 4-8 Product Designers. A big part of my role was allocated to participating and assisting in multiple Design Sprints. I also facilitated usability and A/B testing as well. I worked with top brands such as Verizon, Redbull Records, Sennheiser, Glide, WeWork, BBDO, and Waste Management.

2016 — 2017
Playa Vista, Ca

Art Directed multiple projects ranging from web applications to native applications. I produced and implemented company-wide design processes/documentation for client project implementation. The top clients I worked with were Jib Jab (StoryBots) and Virgin America.

Features

2019

I was happy to get a chance to co-facilitate a design sprint workshop and be the main prototyper with the WeWork team.

Education

2009 — 2011
BFA at Art Center College of Design
Pasadena, Ca