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About
Jey Austen is a senior designer and illustrator from howdy and rowdy Austin, Texas.
With 10 years of creative experience across multiple industries – athletics, entertainment, and fintech, for starters – Jey has seen some shit, and loves learning new things and thinking on their feet.
Jey loves teaching creatives, and mentoring designers on best practices in Figma and Procreate. While you're here, be sure to say hi, especially if you're in education, activism, or entertainment!
Projects
A groupchat app meant to bring far apart friends closer together - Product Design, Interaction Design, Design Systems
Joint banking for couples combining their finances for the first time - UX/UI Design, Art Direction, Product Design
Bank serving small business owners of South Florida - UI/UX Design, Art Direction, Product Design
Side Projects
Have you ever attended a Hell House or visited The Creation Museum? Did your childhood education involve Abeka and Awana? Do you still harbor a homoerotic crush on Bibleman? Are you wondering what the fuck we’re talking about right now?
How Gay Thou Art is a comedy podcast about growing up queer, Christian, and hella confused! Join your hosts - Clint & Jey - as they deep dive into the weirdest parts of Evangelical culture.
Learn how to draw in Procreate and Figma, using both traditional and digital art techniques. The response from new artists and illustrators has been overwhelming, and it's a great way to give back to the community.
Speaking
Check out: Webflow Freelancer's Journey and Sean Page
Read (or listen to): "Steal Like an Artist" by Austin Kleon, "The 1619 Project" by Nikole Hannah-Jones, and "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Support Jey: buymeacoffee.com/JeyAusten
Episode 1: Jey Austen
Welcome to episode 1 of Name Your Layers. Today on the podcast we have Jey Austen, an incredibly talented brand designer who's stories are sure to delight. Jey is a Procreate and Figma aficionado and an all around good human to boot. You don't want to miss this one. You can find Jey off the pod on Twitter at twitter.com/FigmaAntichrist.
Host: @HeyitsAllyssa
All artwork: @HeyitsAllyssa
Editor: @roccofilmeditor
Music and Composition: @roccofilmeditor
Join us on Twitch for another lunch and learn, this time featuring the illustrious Jey Austen! Jey will share their experience using Figma as a brand designer—if you've ever wanted to learn more about using Figma for illustration and things beyond rounded rectangles and Auto Layout, now's your chance. 😉
We'll start at noon with Jey's share-out, but we'll save some time for questions at the end. If you haven't already, remember to read up on our code of conduct to make sure everyone feels welcome and safe.
Awards
Portfolio site of Jey Austen – a senior brand designer and illustrator from howdy and rowdy Austin, Texas.
Features
Designer and illustrator Jey Austen uses a color scheme of white text on a black background for their professional website. Though it may sound simple, they’ve created a bold and eye-catching design.
Fun touches like using the gothic font Pirata for the headers, and unique imagery like crystals and swords add to the mystique of this design. We’re huge fans of how Jey is able to maintain creativity and originality while still maintaining clarity and a great user experience
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Work Experience
✷ Build and maintain modern, thoughtful designs that elevate our brand and achieve conversion goals across our public websites
✷ Lead the design of scalable, flexible design system that is optimized for a range of devices across our websites and landing pages
✷ Create wireframes and prototypes, data visualizations and interaction flows, graphics and other interface elements
✷ Use design thinking to drive the end-to-end launch of responsive and accessible design
✷ Design for A/B tests, Landing Pages, Web Elements, Paid Ads, Digital Banners, Emails and various Marketing Campaigns
Work closely with brand designers to extend dbt Labs brand elements to our various websites
✷ Conducted product design using Agile methodologies based on user research for a new consumer social app
✷ Helped build a design system using components, created full end to end designs, from User Flows and Wireframes to Mid and Hi-Fidelity Mockups and functioning Prototypes in figma
✷ Created and designed full brands including logos, colors, user interfaces, and user experiences for marketing and banking websites
✷ Collaborated directly with users, clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to design websites, web apps, and new brands and products, bringing in over $750,000 in new business
✷ Led Pride initiatives and served on the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Board
✷ Mentored junior designers and participated in weekly skillshares
✷ Created print and digital materials for over 20 separate restaurant concepts
✷ Designed UI/UX for a wifi landing page that collected 5,000 emails in the first week of launch
✷ Refreshed old brand collateral, resulting in a 30% increase in social media engagement
✷ Conducted user research and usability testing to improve the customer experience
✷ Directed and storyboarded photoshoots, and built set pieces for food photography
✷ Collaborated with design teams to offer feedback and keep websites on-brand
✷ Art Directed all of the permanent signage for the 2019 Inside Look event. Attendance increased from 6000 people for the total event to 7000 on the first day
✷ Multitasked by balancing a heavy request load of up to forty-five projects at once while still meeting deadlines in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment
✷ Assisted the art directors with mood boards, prop creation, and set decoration
✷ Conceptualized and implemented the looks for the University's biggest annual events, Sing and Pigskin
✷ Created full campaigns of deliverables, including posters, T-shirts, and 3 minute commercials
✷ Worked with in-house marketing teams over multiple departments
✷ Mentored younger students, working alongside them to develop their creativity
✷ Worked remotely and collaborated via email for most projects
✷ Created deliverables and other Athletic marketing collateral following Baylor Athletics and NCAA guidelines for Basketball, Soccer, Tennis, Track and other sports as-needed
Volunteering
An inclusive space for people in creative tech to share their life + work
Education
Activities and societies: People Around the World Sharing (PAWS), International Student Ambassadors - mentorship program pairing US students and international students.
Achieved the Dean's Academic Honor List most semesters.
Film and Digital Media major specializing in Art Direction and Design. Study abroad experience in London. 3.5 years of upper-level coursework.
GPA: 3.54