About
Alexander Morris is a 24 year old Junior Product Designer with both agency and in-house experience and a penchant for tackling pressing problems to promote lasting solutions. Currently seeking US based opportunities.
Projects
Pop redesigns video communication platforms as flexible tools to promote sustainability and facilitate the needs of professionals in remote working environments.
Una is a mobile application that aims to empower 18 to 24 year olds to engage with activism and social education in a remote society.
Confetti empowers users to organize, manage and attend social events by leveraging community feedback models to enrich the social experience of all involved.
Panel is a globally accessible browser extension that sets out to combat misinformation in a fake news era through a robust and accessible article breakdown that leverages both user submitted and expert submitted article reviews.
Luo is a music app that liberates artists through DRM to encourage and reward music sampling as a means to empower, create and share.
Dawn is a mobile application that contextualises job searching as to help you find the right job for your life.
Awards
Gold in Interaction Design 2021, Student
Gold in Technology 2021, Student
Silver in Apps for Social Change 2021, Student
Silver in Mobile Interaction & Experience 2021, Student
Silver in UX, Interface & Navigation 2021, Student
Bronze in Branding 2021, Student
Bronze in Interaction Design for Social Change 2021, Student
Bronze in Digital Design for Social Change 2021, Student
Bronze in UX, Interface & Navigation 2021, Student
Bronze in Mobile App 2021, Student
Work Experience
Remote contracting with Kin Insurance on front and backstage products with duties ranging from customer research, prototyping design concepts to shipping new product features in collaboration with other designers, product managers, marketing and engineers. As well as maintain Kin’s responsive design system to ensure design quality and consistency across all product development efforts and assisting on various customer facing marketing initiatives.
Working in a multinational team to create interactive solutions from the stages of concept ideation, Interface Design and Prototyping to technical implementation with the development team. My key responsibilities included (but were not limited to) the creation and deliverance of creative concepts, translating business objectives to digital solutions, UI design, prototyping, animation, the creation of the bespoke atomic Figma to React design system “Prototype Blocks” as well as working closely with developers on QA and handoff.
Education
Completed my M.A in Interactive Design in March of 2021 with a 4.0 GPA and OPT visa from the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), focused on delivering a plethora of theoretical and practical projects encompassing topics such as Human Centred Design, Visual Interface Design, Theory of Interaction Design and Service Design.
I attained an Honours degree in Computer Science from the Top 10 ranked, Lancaster University. The bachelors covered modules from HCI & Web design through to Distributed Systems and AI; culminated by my dissertation which was a usability study into smartwatch user interfaces and interaction types.