Noor Bondogji
San Francisco Bay Area, CA | nbondogji@gmail.com
Education.
San Jose State University (SJSU) – San Jose, CA
B.F.A in Digital Media Design
Honors: Dean’s Honor’s List
Skills.
UX/UI Design: User-Centered Design, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Information Architecture, Usability Testing, Accessibility Design, Prototyping Tools, A/B Testing, Layout Design
Digital Marketing: Campaign Management, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Content Creation, Email Marketing, CRM, CMS, Brand Development, Typography
Design Tools: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator), Figma, Keynote, Sketch, Miro, Canva, Blender
Analytics & Reporting: Google Analytics, AI Data-Driven Design, ChatGPT, Gemini
Collaboration & Communication: Cross-Functional Team Collaboration, JIRA, Problem Solving, Project Management Tools, Miro, Attention to Detail, Microsoft Office Suite
Social Media: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, AirTable, Slack
Languages: English (Fluent), Arabic (Advanced)
Work Experience.
Senseera – San Francisco, CA Oct. 2023 - Present
Graphic Design Officer
Revamped Brand Development: Led a rebranding project for a client, crafted the company’s logo, and revamped brand identity, leading to improved brand recognition and market engagement.
Brand Guidelines: Developed exceptional quality designs and layouts for division presentations, manuals, and documents, ensuring compliance with corporate guidelines and standards.
Campaign Optimization: Redesigned the layout design for a client web portal, accelerating feature rollout by 30%, enhancing efficiency, and improving user engagement through UX design, user-centered design, and scalable growth strategies.
Layout Design: Managed Figma and Miro, selecting the appropriate size, style, and type to prepare professional material for enterprise design purposes.
Avocademy – San Francisco, CA Dec. 2022 - Sept. 2023
UX/UI Designer
Mobile App Launch: Full stack Designed and launched an iOS app for seniors, increasing social engagement by 40% and improving client satisfaction using UX/UI design, accessibility design principles, and feedback loops.
Graphic Design: Created visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces and marketing materials, integrating consistent branding and high-quality graphics to attract and retain users.
Problem Identification & Solution Design: Addressed social barriers and shyness with Social Questies app, a mobile app that offers user-friendly social tools and activities, boosting user confidence and enabling organic interactions.
UX/UI Design & Prototyping: Designed and prototyped the Social Questies app using Figma, Miro, and other tools, creating an intuitive interface that facilitated social skill practice and adventure planning.
Collaborative Feedback: Led collaboration and brainstorming sessions, and incorporated user and stakeholder feedback to continually improve the app's functionality and design, ensuring a high-quality, user-centric final product.
Meta - Burlingame, CA - Hybrid May 2022 - July 2022
Content Design QA - Temp-Contract
Prototyping & Wireframing: Created 40+ wireframes and transformed them into interactive rapid prototypes for AI products using Figma and Miro, showcasing functionalities and design features while boosting user engagement metrics.
Quality Assurance: Checked and proofed content and design for errors, making necessary corrections using Adobe Creative Suite.
Collaboration: Led cross-functional collaborations, and obtained stakeholder agreement on relevant changes before updating material.
Playgroundapp – New York, NY - Remote, CA Aug. 2021 - May 2022
Digital Design Manager
Team Leadership: Managed a team of 4 designers, driving multiple projects simultaneously to improve CMS Web3 event content and website performance, resulting in a 25% increase in subscribers through effective project management while adhering to strict deadlines.
Promotional Materials: Designed and updated high-quality graphics for company social media profiles (Instagram, Email, Pinterest) and promotional materials (posters, brochures, logos, gifs), resulting in a 30% boost in user engagement and brand visibility.
Innovative Solutions: Developed a "favorite repeat" recommendation tool using organized collaborative filtering techniques and Keynote, improving user engagement by 20%.
Email Campaigns: Collaborated with the Creative Director to create UX/UI mockups for an email campaign, achieving a 150% increase in fellowship applications.
Graphic Design for Marketing: Designed marketing collateral, including posters, social media graphics, and promotional materials, resulting in a 30% boost in user engagement and brand visibility, and incorporating client feedback to enhance designs.
New Art City – San Jose, CA Jan. 2020 – May 2021
Motion - Product Design Lead
Demonstrated proficiency in Illustrator, Photoshop, and Blender: streamlining the design process for increased efficiency. Applied motion design principles to create dynamic visual assets.
Conceptualized and executed compelling graphic elements: for artist interviews, teasers, and VR World projects in Adobe Premiere, resulting in improved visual storytelling and user engagement.
Leadership and guidance to a team of video editors: Utilized motion design to enhance storytelling elements. Provided leadership and guidance to a team of 4 video editors, ensuring the effective conveyance of emotion during interviews with featured artists and driving an 80% increase in viewer engagement.
Collaborated with motion designers to integrate dynamic elements: into video content. Fostered seamless collaboration with cross-functional teams and external vendors, consistently achieving exceptional results and quality, leading to a 100% enhancement in the VR world-building process.
Applied motion design principles: to enhance VR world interactivity.
Self-Employed – S.F. Bay Area, CA Jan. 2015 – Dec. 2018
Self-Employed Photographer
Managed photography and videography at 3 local consumer events per month such as weddings, birthdays, and business events resulting in building relationships and consulting with 50-100 clients during pre and post production to meet needs with outstanding customer service and exceeding expectations.
Corrected color of imagery and removed unwanted anomalies/objects using Adobe Photoshop and Premiere.
Created and organized contracts to track estimates, invoices, and picture set requests.
Projects.
Braven Leadership Apprenticeship - San Jose, CA Jan. 2020 - May 2020
Project Manager
Developed a product roadmap for a team of 9 fellows to create a hands-on prototype safe for K-8 students.
Multitasked project plans, managed project teams and weekly cadences, and tracked milestones with the team.
Formulated an eco-friendly prototype using standard home products and conducted survey interviews twice.
Presented a thinking strategy slide deck to a panel of 3-4 RAFT judges, resulting in the prototype featured on the company's website.
'Learn 2 Code' - Saratoga, CA Dec. 2018 – Apr. 2019
Marketing Officer
Managed internal events and meeting calendars and assessed mixed platforms to align with stakeholders' marketing goals.
Coordinated and led a program teaching Apple Swift coding to 13 students ages 9-15 and managed expenses.
Initiated a new social media series for growth, utilizing Facebook Pages to create content which resulted in an increase of 90% in engagement on social media.