John Novosad

WORK EXPERIENCE

UI/UX Web Designer

FirstBank of Colorado

06/2009 - Present, Lakewood, CO

One of the top performing banks in Colorado. Employed here for nearly 24 years.

Achievements/Tasks

• Project lead on 3 redesign efforts (including ad hoc A/B testing) implementing responsiveness, modernization, increased performance, and accessibility improvements.
• Lead web brand coordinator, ensuring brand identity colors and patterns are consistent between multiple websites and applications.
• Developed an in-house brand style guide and a css class-based design system to help keep design patterns within brand standards.
• Collaborate across teams with other UI UX designers, business groups, marketing and advertisement teams to complete over 100 project objectives.
• Collaborated with The Blind Institute of Technology to identify and correct over 400 accessibility issues.
• Designed over 150 advertisement images. Created over 250 design-to-code responsive ads and web pages (60+ for use in a mobile app).

UI/UX Web Designer

Gift of the Rose (freelance)

03/2023 - Present, Denver, CO

Denver based end-of-life coach and certified death doula website.

Achievements/Tasks

• Designed a logo and establish a brand identity.
• Improved image and page load performance reducing load times by over 60%.
• Created an elegant multi-section, single page site to reduce the need for user to navigate the site.

UI/UX Web Designer

digi-grow.com (freelance)

06/2015 - 04/2016, Arvada, CO

A Raspberry Pi greenhouse monitoring system to track temperature, light, humidity, and other atmospheric levels.

Achievements/Tasks

• Designed a minimalist layout and establish a brand identity.
• Create a responsive and interactive website interpreting hundreds of data points to the user.
• Created component modules to handle different user needs, reducing the number of manual configurations for the user.