User Experience Designer & Designer Advocate
Melbourne Area, Australia
- Current
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- Senior Designer & Designer Advocate at 99designs.com
- UX Designer & Information Architect at Sabrestyle
- Past
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- User Experience Ninja at 99designs
- Product & Marketing Manager at 360desktop
- Senior UI Designer at 360desktop
- Web Developer at DesignStorm
- IT Projects Coordinator at South Australian Tourism Commission
- Instructor at Futurekids
- Education
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- Invisage Australia
- Spherion Education
- University of South Australia
- Hallett Cove R-12 School
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Adam Schilling’s Summary
I believe great design solutions should be usable and accessible without sacrificing aesthetics.
I am a hard working, committed worker with excellent leadership skills and excel when given a problem and a team of people to manage in solving it.
I don't take it home with me - I bring it to work.
Adam Schilling’s Specialties:
User experience design, user-centred design, product design, interaction design, user interface and information design, standards-compliant web design and development, usability testing, accessibility, semantics, microformats, HTML 4–5, XHTML,CSS 2.1–3, JS (libraries: jQuery, Prototype, Moo.fx, etc).
Strategic planning, requirement gathering, project proposals and plans, information architecture, site mapping, wireframing, developing use-cases.
Empathy, imagination, determination.
Adam Schilling’s Experience
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Senior Designer & Designer Advocate
99designs.com
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
August 2009 — Present (5 months)
As Senior Designer, Adam continues to design and oversee all front-end development for 99designs.com, as per his role as User Experience Ninja.
As Designer Advocate, Adam is responsible for the happiness of more than forty-thousand designers who participate on 99designs.com. This role builds upon user experience principles and extends into public relations and community management.
Responsibilities include: engaging with, encouraging, and educating designers using various social media channels. Managing the accounts of top designers. And, producing social media content tailored to designers. -
UX Designer & Information Architect
Sabrestyle
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
December 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
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User Experience Ninja
99designs
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
August 2008 — July 2009 (1 year )
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Product & Marketing Manager
360desktop
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2007 — July 2008 (9 months)
Strategic planning, requirement gathering, project proposals and plans, information architecture, site mapping, wireframing, developing use-cases.
Introduced 'scrum' agile development philosophies and encouraged adoption of issue tracking and product management software, such as JIRA, Confluence (a wiki) and activeCollab (a project management tool).
Planned and tracked marketing campaigns.
Liased with CEO, partners, potential partners, and other shareholders.
Managed team of eleven (developers, designers, marketing co-ordinators, release manager, etc), as well as team of 2-6 offshore developers.
Managed deadlines, feature development and implementation, user experience and quality assurance.
Wrote job specifications and advertised, interviewed and recommended new employees. -
Senior UI Designer
360desktop
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2007 — November 2007 (4 months)
Designed corporate identity (logo, stationery, website, etc) and style guide.
Designed UI for unique 360-degree rotating (virtual) desktop, including controls for panning/navigating the desktop, adding websites, widgets, and images to the desktop, and browsing for new (360-degree background) content via a remote API, along with several alternate/future user interfaces that should further address usability, accessibility and provide a more pleasing overall user experience.
Designed robust web widget version of 360desktop, for viral use on Facebook, MySpace and other social networks.
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Web Developer
DesignStorm
(Online Media industry)
July 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 6 months)
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IT Projects Coordinator
South Australian Tourism Commission
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
October 2001 — June 2005 (3 years 9 months)
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Instructor
Futurekids
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)
December 1997 — July 1999 (1 year 8 months)
Adam Schilling’s Education
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Invisage Australia
Certificate IV , Marketing , 2003 — 2004
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Spherion Education
Certificate IV , Microcomputer Technology , 2000 — 2001
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University of South Australia
DBVC , Illustration, Graphic Design , 1998 — 2000
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Hallett Cove R-12 School
SACE , Art, Biology, Design, Drama, English, Information Technology , 1990 — 1997
- Activities and Societies:
- School Captain, SRC
Additional Information
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Adam Schilling’s Interests:
basketball, cooking, illustration, innovation, music, photography, pop culture, reading, science, skiing, snowboarding, technology, typography, writing, zoology
Adam Schilling’s Groups:
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WSG -
Web Standards Design + Development
Adam Schilling’s Contact Settings
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