Gian Marco Macchione

CV

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Experience

Product Designer @ Preqin 2022 - Present

  • Taking ideas and briefs and confidently turning them into new features and components

  • Working closely with Product Managers and developers throughout the development process, including presentations, daily scrum meetings, review meetings, project briefings, etc

  • Presenting prototypes to stakeholders giving an overview of the user journey, and gathering feedback
  • Analysing data to identify improvements and new features

  • Understanding the business goals, customer needs and competitor products to ensure the development of a best-in-class experience

  • Working closely with the Design System team to develop and expand the patterns and components library

  • Participating in design reviews and sharing the work regularly with the other Design teams

  • Sharing best practices and improvements to Preqin’s processes

Experience Designer @ Inviqa 2021 - 2022

  • Taking ownership and delivering stunning experiences across a variety of platforms

  • Building successful relationships with clients and teams

  • Building interactive prototypes that bring designs to life and support user research

  • Maintain and contribute to design systems, ensuring consistent scalable design across multiple products

  • Planning and facilitating user research and workshops

  • Contributing to internal best practices and skill sharing

Product Designer Freelance 2021

Conducting user research, competitive analysis, designing wireframes, prototypes and aesthetics to be implemented within websites, leading to increased conversion rates.

UX Case Study @ CareerFoundry 2020-2021

Dedicated 400+ hours to Career Foundry’s boot camp course in User Experience Design to transition into careers that align with my passion for user research and design.
This resulted in a portfolio that showcases all parts of UX methodology.

Inventory Manager @ Ollie Quinn 2016 - 2020

Senior position on a corporate team focused on the management of London-based inventory team and UK/ CA / US stock database globally.
My duties consisted in:

  1. Ownership and management
    of a database of hundreds
    of SKUs.
  2. The sole responsibility for controlling the movement of all stock, including product inspections.
  3. Software updates for all stock movements.
  4. Manage vendor relationships, serving as the main company point of contact.

Skills

Visual

Layout & Grid

Typography

Style Guides

UX/UI

User Research

User Flows

Wireframing

Prototyping

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Adobe XD

Photoshop

HTML

Education

CareerFoundry 2021

UX Designer Certificate

The Open University 2017

Degree in English and Spanish linguistics and languages