Cole Dube
Austin, Texas 78758
210.849.3199
dube1503@gmail.com
Experience
Oct 2018 - Present
Product Designer, O’Reilly Media, Austin, TX.
Work cross-functionally with Product Management, Project Management, and Engineering to define and inform digital product strategy and implementation.
Responsible for full design cycle on dedicated squads including research, user-flows, wireframes, visual design, prototyping, and user-testing.
Recruiting and conducting user interviews for both generative and evaluative research and facilitating synthesis for actionable design principles.
Implementing concepts for data-visualization and other reporting needs for enterprise user for the O’Reilly Online Learning Administration page.
Insight gathering and design focused on bringing machine learning based personalization to the online learning product experience.
Team contribution towards improving and extending the use of the O’Reilly Design System.
June 2018 - Oct 2018
Experience Design Intern, T3, Austin, TX.
Assisted in user research, user interviews and heuristic analysis for creation of user flows and customer journeys.
Contributed to creation and editing of wireframes and annotations as well as prototype development.
Worked on the creation and implementation of a Component Library for a new Design System.
Observed client meetings and procedures.
August 2016 - May 2018
UX Engineer, Texas State University Physics Department, San Marcos, TX.
Worked developing and designing a visual programming application for teaching students computational physics.
Conducted research, ran user tests, made iterative prototypes and implemented code development in Javascript, HTML and CSS within an Agile development environment.
July 2016 - June 2017
Graphic Designer, Texas State University Department of Housing and Residential Life, San Marcos, TX.
Created department event material and fulfilled university client marketing requests.
Worked in Adobe Creative Suite to complete client designs, collaborated across university teams, completed print fulfillment and worked within University Brand Guidelines.
Education
Bachelor Fine Arts - Communication Design
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.
Deans List 2015 - 2018
Council of Scholars 2016 - 2018
Associates of Arts - Focus in New Media Arts
Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, TX.
Skills
Invision, Sketch, Figma, Abstract, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Python, Javascript, React, HTML, CSS, Command Line, Git, Data-visualization, Product Design, UX Design, User-Centered Design, UX Research, Generative Research, Evaluative Research, Usability Testing, User Journey Mapping, Wireframing, Prototyping, Agile Development
Involvement
April 2017
Texas State Smart Cities Hackathon
Worked on multidisciplinary team of designers and developers to create a mobile app within 24 hours.
Conducted UX workshops, created prototype iterations and worked on front-end development for working prototype.
Won “Best in Show” for Redirect App