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Ross Fischer

User Experience Designer

Personal Profile

User Experience Designer with a holistic and collaborative design approach and strengths in user journey mapping, rapid iterative prototyping, and user research.
I strive to be the voice for the user on a team that’s dedicated to improving people’s lives.

Education

User Experience Design Immersive

March 2014 - June 2014

Ten week, full-time, immersive course building a strong foundation in the fundamentals of UX design.

Bachelor's in Business Economics from UC Santa Barbara

2001 - 2005

Extensive coursework in leadership, psychology and behavioral economics.

Key Skills

  • Sketch
  • InVision
  • Marvel
  • HTML/CSS/JS
  • Axure RP
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Interaction Design
  • Usability Testing
  • Eyetracking

Experience

Organic

2014-current

Brought user-first thinking to the company including integrating user testing early and often into the design process. Lead collaborative design workshops with clients and senior stakeholders, helped define strategy, and lead design teams that delivered on that strategy.

Leap Motion

2014

Ran extensive user testing of their cutting edge 3D gesture control, which we utilized learnings from to define standard gesture controls for the LM app store and launcher.

Skyline Solar, inc.

2010-2012

Designed and implemented a complete sales system, including lead generation and qualification systems, financial project modeling, sales literature and channel partner relationship building both domestically and internationally.

Borrego Solar Systems, inc.

2007-2010

Designed and developed sales tools including site and financial analysis techniques, Google Earth mapping of existing customers, regional market variable analysis, and customer proposal generation.