Ted BoyerSr. Front-End Designer

Resume

Senior Front-End Designer with 6+ years of tech industry, higher education, and creative agency experience.

Experience

Inkling

Senior Front-End Designer | May 2023–Present

Front-End Designer | September 2021–May 2023

Lead the end-to-end design and development process for Inkling’s B2B customers by scoping projects, coding responsive brand-aligned templates, and training customers on advanced software use and techniques

  • Redesigned our Figma template by integrating patterns as components, automating tedious processes, and finding opportunities to use cutting-edge features, resulting in a 36% decrease in hours for design mockups

  • Partnered with content strategists to ensure content design quality and consistency at scale

  • Led an effort to organize and prioritize updates and improvements to our front-end boilerplate in tandem with Product Managers and Engineering. Presented results and documentation to company at large.

  • Co-authored and designed a Content Design Best Practices guide to equip customers with practical insights to advance their content authoring lifecycle

  • Reduced a 5-year backlog of codebase issues by 86% (67+ issues completed)

Electric Pen

Web & Presentation Designer | May 2021–September 2021

Provided brand design, web development, and ongoing support for client projects

  • Built wireframes and prototypes for seamless integration with WordPress sites

  • Designed presentations and print templates while playing within strict, extensive brand guidelines

  • Communicated with vendors and development partners for successful design handoffs

University of Washington

Graphic Designer | Contract | January 2021–April 2021

Played an integral role in the relaunch of the School of Public Health’s magazine, contributing print layouts, story illustrations, web design, and front-end programming for the 50th anniversary edition

  • Designed web, email, and social content that visually highlighted the school community

Web Designer | Contract | August 2020–January 2021

Developed user-friendly, responsive design concepts for the UW DEOHS site, collaborating with web developers to plan and implement these features in Drupal

  • Designed infographics and illustrations, and provided in-house creative expertise

  • Proposed site improvements that aligned with team priorities, with a focus on web accessibility and engagement across multiple audiences (students, faculty, alumni, and employers)

Brokaw

Programmer & Designer | May 2018–August 2020

Provided exceptional UX design, digital design, and front-end programming for clients, and collaborated creatively with agency teams to solve tough design problems with fresh thinking

  • Coded clean, semantic HTML5, CSS/SCSS, PHP, & jQuery for website redesigns, email campaigns, and animated banner ads, established documentation, and integrated best practices and emerging techniques

  • Presented annotated wireframes and interactive prototypes to share design decisions

  • Introduced workflows to ensure timelines, budgets, and areas of completion were on track for larger website projects

The University of Akron, Myers School of Art

Graphic Designer, Design x Nine | August 2017–May 2018

One of nine students in the award-winning in-house design studio at the Myers School of Art; created logos, branding, print, and motion design under real client deadlines

Web Content & Social Media Manager | August 2016–April 2018

Managed the Myers School of Art’s online presence through close collaboration with faculty; maintained content for the website and accompanying social accounts

Education

BFA in Graphic Design

The University of Akron | May 2018

Myers School of Art

Tools

Design Software | Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)

Web Technologies | HTML, CSS, Sass, VS Code, Git, DevTools, WordPress, Drupal, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), PHP, Bitbucket, CodePen

Collaboration Tools | Jira, Confluence, Notion, Asana, Miro, FigJam

Marketing | Google Analytics, Mailchimp, Klaviyo, HubSpot, Litmus

Skills

Front-End & UX | Web development, prototyping, wireframing, accessibility, HTML email production, QA testing

Visual Design | Branding & identity, storytelling, creative ideation, typography, layout, illustration

Product Design | Design systems, documentation, sprint planning, backlog grooming, prioritization

Project Leadership | Cross-functional collaboration, client communication, project scoping

Achievements

Cleveland ADDY Awards | 2020
Cayman Jack Microsite, Silver
2018 RTA Digital Annual Report, Silver

District 5 ADDY Award | 2018
Loop Brand Identity, Silver

Akron ADDY Award | 2018
Loop Brand Identity, Gold

Communities

SmashingConf | Smashing Magazine

OIT | Out in Tech

AAF | American Advertising Federation

AIGA | American Institute of Graphic Arts