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Mobile App Screen Designs For Play Store
Mobile App Screen Designs For Play Store
The Hearing Hive Brand Design
Chargemaster Signs And Charge Cards
Liongate Investment Website Home Page Design
Polar Instant App User Flow UX And UI
Filcris Product Datasheets
TECSUK Website Design Plan
Realnet Exhibition Stand And Podium

Creative in Graphic Design, Website Design and build.

  • Creating Graphic Design print projects and campaigns working with new and established brands with multiple customers including corporate and blue chip.
  • Much of the design work produced also incorporated and project planning, conceptual work and strategic and problem-solving work in both web and graphic design areas.
  • Producing brand enhancing complimentary Front-End design and development on websites with HTML and CSS and more recently using WordPress and bootstrap and other custom built CMS systems.

Software and content

Working extensively with the Adobe Creative Suite producing conceptual and finished design and interactive PDF documents. Working with open source software for the creation of UI wire-framing and site mapping. Some content and SEO writing help for marketing departments.

Filcris Website Home Page Design
Filcris Website Home Page Design
The Online Marketing Fundamentals - Google Qualification Certificate
BA Honours RCA Certificate
MA Certificate

Skills and experience – a profile

  • I have many years in creative graphic design and pre-press print, including information graphic design in the web and app environment.
  • I have many years of visually designing and building websites across multiple design disciplines in varying sectors and steering customers and colleagues in design and brand awareness and brand consistency.
  • As an effect, I produce HTML5 and CSS3 mark-up and work with setups also using WordPress and its development

Skills

  • User Interface – UI Design
  • High detail and accurate graphic visualisation
  • Information and Graphic Design
  • Pre-press print production
  • Ecommerce website designs – with a particular interest in the ease of usability and to capture all kinds of visitor groups.
  • More recently, learning WordPress and its structure and customisation
  • Designing off the shelf and custom email templates, and data lists ready for campaigns in Mail Chimp and Dot mailer.
  • Project management and customer interfacing on projects.
  • I have a keen eye for photography and visuals as you would expect
  • Blog and website SEO content copywriting.
  • Google Digital Garage certification writing and understanding Search Engine Optimisation

Face to Face

I have been dealing face to face with customers, project planning, taking briefs and gathering information; some in difficult situations for many years and it holds no fears. I find the direct business and customer contact very enjoyable, engaging and enlightening and it gives a better sense of how they would like their projects to unfold.

Brand and strategic development

I have extensive graphic design and brand design and brand management skills and experience including print and desktop publishing. I really enjoy a role where I can get my teeth into different aspects as it is never too late to learn and apply yourself. There are some exciting technical innovations out there that make a design more exciting. I enjoy being part of this.

I have helped a number of my employers with design strategy for internal and customer projects and have helped extensively in problem solving in many fronts including areas of project co-ordination.

Latest challenges:

  • Continuation of working progress with WordPress, its plugins
  • Project management and gathering and sourcing of project materials on a given time frame.
  • Producing marketing phrasing, slogans, strap lines and text content for websites
  • Continuation of producing Brand design and logos and follow on documentation for companies
  • Producing Email templates and campaigns in MailChimp and Dotmailer
  • More advanced design and mark-up override techniques in WordPress using standard and custom templates.
  • Working on the mark-up principles of mobile design and media query formatting
  • Using Adobe XD, Figma and also Sketch for Mac briefly and really seeing the potential for website and app design, prototyping, styling and speed and usability of this as well as the Adobe CS packages like Fireworks, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere.
  • Researching and writing blog articles in the last few years
  • Writing text for websites for Chargemaster to help the pressured marketing team.
  • Some understanding of the workings of frameworks and version control, GIT, Bitbucket, SourceTree and Buddy app.

I have been using the collaboration tool app online called Figma https://www.figma.com/ which works like Sketch but exports to Adobe format allowing cross platform Mac PC working too. Also creating flowchart and working wireframe diagrams in the open source software: https://www.draw.io/

Although my skills are in Web design and graphic design, I also have needed to be engaged in other extensive skills to help team members in the companies I have worked in including IT support, computer mending including Mac and PC / server re-builds and resetting and software and network loading.

Want to see more portfolio work?

“For those viewing this portfolio of work, please note the projects shown are a more recent selection of projects to fit with the general current demands and requirements in design and development.

Due to the evolving nature of workplace requirements and change, I have adapted to work successfully within teams and solo working in many design arenas and industry areas in-agency plus in-house on varied projects in B2B and B2C over time.

If you are unsure or concerned about the lack of portfolio range or work type fit… don’t be!

There are many other archive design projects not currently included. If you want to know more about other projects I have worked on and how I can work with you or for you, please ask.”

“I am up for a challenge, and can generally turn my hand to most technical and practical projects or tasks, just don’t ask me to do brain surgery or particle physics”.

Nick Hawkes 02-2021
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