About Karen
Hi, my name is Karen, as a multidisciplinary designer with over 15 years experience in design, you can show me the project and I can probably help you!
I’m a long time graphic and brand designer, and having worked as a UI and product designer, I gained my UX/UI Design certification. With extensive experience in graphic design and an educational background in architecture, I like to create things that make life easier and happier.
With the knowledge gained from creating my own product, I have developed a deep understanding of the importance of user needs, as well as balancing and maintaining a strong focus on business objectives. Freelancing has given me excellent communication and relationship skills.
As a driven and enthusiastic person, I am always open to trying new methods and on the lookout for the new and innovative.
English
Native or bilingual
Dutch
Native or bilingual
French
Conversational
Spanish
Conversational
Can work on-site
Saint-Germain-en-Laye (up to 30km), Paris (up to 10km)
Experience
- karen willcox designGraphic, visual (product) designerSeptember 2003 - Today (22 years and 9 months)Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France• While looking for a product designer position, I am freelancing on various projects in the field of product, brand design and graphics.• Managing various design projects within a set time frame (6-12 months) while directly working with clients and other collaborators, creating large-format books of 200+ pages. Clients include Rick Mather Architects and Gustavo Gili.• Finding clients, by making contacts and networking, maintaining strong partnerships with reoccurring clients, resulting in over 40 monographs and books published internationally. Clients include John Wiley & Sons and RIBA Publishing.• Creating a design concept and language for Jon Wiley Publisher for a series of essays and visual content by internationally renowned architects resulting in a 14 book series over 10 years.• Designing a two-book collection about Spanish sustainable architecture, organising text and technical information (plans, diagrams, and other visual data) of over 40 authors per book into a highly successful publication series, each book over 200 pages, for the Spanish editorial Gustavo Gili in Barcelona• Produced the design material for over 10 exhibitions for Thomas Williams Art Gallery. Material including, catalogues, invites, posters, and advertising.
- FiftyProduct DesignerAugust 2022 - September 2022 (1 month)Paris, FranceCreation of a feature to personalise courses for their users, based on their own choice of skills and profiles. A 3-week sprint with 2 developers, through various iterations creating Figma mock-up pages and prototypes to create the new feature for their web-based platform.
- SibstarUI DesignerJune 2021 - July 2022 (1 year and 1 month)United Kingdom• Designing the Sibstar mobile app and responsive website with a focus on the user interface and accessibility. Creating mock-ups and interactive prototypes, handover to developers, as well as creating a design system.• all marketing and promotional material, both digital and print, as well as updating the website.• Working remotely, on a tight schedule, in a small team to launch spring 2022.• Sibstar is a new highly secure, card and app designed to help families living with dementia safely manage their daily spending. Sibstar is part of the Alzheimer's Society Accelerator Programme.• It has been shortlisted for a "Financial Inclusion Award" at the FStech 2022 awards.
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Education
- Certificate in UX Design, User Experience DesignCareerFoundry2021Certificate in UX Design, User Experience Design
- Master of ArchitectureUCL2002Diploma in Architecture, Architecture