Hello, I'm Zach 👋, an aspiring Product Designer with a Masters Degree in UX and over ten years of Agile Product Delivery experience.
I'm passionate about creating pragmatic and intuitive digital experiences, motivated by empathy and understanding the what and why behind user needs.
Wholesale Car Dealer:
Auction Vehicle Release App
UX Research & Design
An industry project to reduce friction and empower customers and associates when picking up vehicles won at a major used car dealer wholesale auction.
InternetNZ:
Data Visualization Web Pages
UX Research & Design
An agency project leveraging nationwide user survey insights to create data visualization web pages that tell a story about the impact of Covid-19 on the state of the Internet in New Zealand.
TradeMe Ltd:
Designing a Returns Experience
UX Research & Design
An academic industry project with the objective of researching and designing a returns process concept for an "eBay-like" company that holds no inventory as the transaction facilitator.
Intuitive Games:
Applying UX to Game Design
UX Research, Coding, Game Design, & Animation
An academic project applying UX methods and principles to game design to create an intuitive experience for both casual and veteran players.
Google Digital Wellbeing: Product Concept
UX Research & Design
A collaboration between Google and Victoria University of Wellington masters students focused on designing a product that helps users mitigate ubiquitous computing impacts to their daily digital wellbeing.
Augmented Reality:
Movie Location Product Concept
Product Concept
An academic project exploring wow Augmented Reality (AR) could help create an immersive Lord of the Rings film location guide app with gamification components for fans visiting New Zealand.
NZ Immigration:
Iterative Infographic Concepts
Information Design
A an academic project iteratively exploring infographic concepts to visualize New Zealand immigration data.
Metlink:
App Teardown & Re-design
UX Research & Design
An academic project to explore how we might re-design a more intuitive commuting experience that adds features new users need while still keeping things lightweight.
Customer Journey Mapping:
Metlink Rail Service
UX Research & Service Design
An academic Service Design project leveraging User Research Insights to document an existing customer journey and offer suggested improvements.
Band Infographic:
Iconography and Visual Story telling with data
Graphic & Information Design
An academic project to research and design an icon set and infographic for Pearl Jam using Spotify and band data sets.