Jack Ward

User Experience and UI Designer & Developer

I’m a UX/UI, architecture, and design system specialist with just over 20 years in the User Experience field. My background in architecture, fine arts, and human behavior, combined with a strong technical skills, has driven my career and giveng me a unique experiential knowledge and a skill set that few have.

Throughout my career, I have successfully created innovative UX solutions and delivering impactful products using lean UX principles. My experience includes designing for desktop or mobile in either web or native applications, ensuring consistency and accessibility while optimizing user experiences through iterative testing and data-driven insights. I am deeply committed to aligning business objectives with user needs, creating experiences that not only meet but exceed expectations.

I enjoy fast-paced environments, and I am friendly, professional, and approachable. I also have the ability to work with, as well as lead teams, and I take great pride in bringing more than just my hard skills to a position.

UX Skills

  • Align with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to design best-in-class experiences
  • Contribute to early-stage discovery and product definition
  • Understand the user, frame problems, and evaluate current state experiences
  • Conduct primary and secondary user research to inform an experience
  • Translate requirements and user needs into tangible concepts through user flows & wireframes
  • Communicate design decisions, rationale, and direction through presentation and documentation
  • Create, contribute to, and evangelize for the development and promotion of design systems
  • Manage and grow UX talent, and promote general understanding of UX across the company

Power Skills:

+ Collaborative team work & leadership
+ Multi-tasking on high priority projects
+ Meeting demanding deadlines

Software & Web Skills:

+ Adobe CC, Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch
+ HTML & CSS - SCSS
+ Angular, React, JavaScript Libraries
+ Version control - SVN & GIT

Recommendations

I have had the pleasure of working with Jack Ward at both Biosero and Telesis Bio (formerly Codex DNA). Jack is highly skilled at blending art and science to create an enjoyable and effective user experience. As a team member, he is a problem-solver, collaborative, responsive, adaptable, and a critical thinker, all skills I have repeatedly tested in fast-paced, dynamic work environments. My work with him has spanned instrument software, scheduling software, website design, and even a mobile app for demonstrating products and services. I would look forward to the opportunity to work with Jack a third time.

Ruth Petersen
Vice President of Marketing

Jack is an outstanding user advocate and an incredibly thoughtful designer. I feel lucky that I got the chance to work with him this year as he designed new software mocks and our sales enablement app. He even advised on our website design to help us ensure accessibility for all users. His empathy for the user is always foremost and he articulately makes the case for good UX no matter what stage of the process we are in.

Hayley Dyer
Director of Marketing

Jack is a great leader and manager. His experience and excellent skills in UX, UI, and information architecture as well as his creativity in solving problems are remarkable. He has been great to work with as a UX Lead, there is always something new to learn from him, which makes him a unique valuable team member.

Abril J. Alejo
UX Designer

Jack considers problems as a challenge and enjoys finding creative yet appropriate solutions. His UX expertise is beyond measure and he brings an amazing perspective to the table. From a set of data, he can establish a principle, or work out a rule, or suggest a reason for failure or success. His analysis is always accurate and wholly original. He produces creative, original ideas, plans, products, or methods, well-attuned to the needs and capabilities of the user. Intellectually versatile, he has the qualities and skills that will help organizations tackle difficult problems with meaningful solutions. I would not hesitate to work or hire Jack in the future

Souriya (Jaxton) Sengphet
Head of Technology

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