Whitney St.Charles

UX Designer

New York, New York, United States
Experience
New York, New York, United States
Mar 2011Jun 2011
UX Specialist
Oversee all user interface design
Create compositions for artistic direction
Create complete Balsamiq wireframes for both client and internal use
Complete compositions for company pitches
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Oct 2009Mar 2011
UI Designer/ 2D Artist
Provided UI guidance for every company project
Created 2D game assets
Created textures for 3D game assets
Created concept art
Worked directly with game designer to determine precise needs of each game screen
Designed information layouts to most efficiently communicate game information to player
Created and optimized art assets and facilitate integration into the GUI programming framework
Generated all iconography and optimized for maximum readability
Tested screens with users and iterated designs
Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States
Jan 2009Oct 2009
UI Designer
Worked directly with game designer to determine precise needs of each game screen
Designed information layouts to most efficiently communicate game information to the player
Created and optimized art assets and facilitated integration into Scaleform framework
Generated all iconography
Tested screens with QA and iterated designs
Education
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Aug 2004May 2008
Bachelor of Science | Computer Science
Graduated Magna Cum Laude
Awarded Highest Honors for University Honors project: "An Analysis and Evaluation of Current Noun Phrase Extraction Techniques"
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Aug 2009Dec 2009
Masters of Entertainment Technology Candidate
After one very successful and exciting semester at the ETC, I was approached by the art director at Firaxis Games and offered the opportunity of a lifetime. While I regretted not finishing my Masters Degree at CMU, my time there led me to my current career in UI design.
Skills
 
CSS, Adobe Photoshop, HTML, Adobe Flash, Actionscript, Javascript, Java, 3D Studio Max, C++, Unity, Balsamiq Mockups, Adobe Illustrator, Autodesk Maya