Resume - Alex Hughes

Alex Hughes
aahughes.com
[email protected]
(630)550-7538
UX Designer
Education
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Spring 2013
Bachelor of Science in Informatics
Telecommunications Cognate, Computer Science Minor
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Master of Science in Human Computer Interaction Design
Relevant Experience
Design Intern
WisdomTools — Bloomington, IN
Spring 2015
Summer 2013–Present
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Helping to design and develop educational games in Unity by building environments, brainstorming ideas, programming, and play testing games
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Designed and wireframed Interfaces and menus for players to interact with.
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Designed and helped run usability tests to test new game mechanics
Software Designer/Programmer
Power Up Education — Bloomington, IN
Spring 2012–Spring 2013
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Designed and developed an educational platformer game from scratch.
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Used design methods such as sketching, ideation, and usability testing to aid with the design process.
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Gained hands on experience with planning and designing a product from beginning to end.
Associate instructor
Indiana University - Bloomington, IN
Fall 2013 – Present
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Leading a lab teaching students the basics of html, css, python, and more.
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Working with the instructor to update the material taught in the class.
Academic Projects
UI/UX Designer
Tomorrow Top
UI/UX Designer
That’s so Fetch
Spring 2014
A new playground experience that is meant for both parents and kids, it is blacktop that morphs to different sizes and shapes, by lowering and raising parts of the blacktop using a table from afar.
Fall 2013
Co­-Designed a device that allow an owner to play with their dog while they are away.
Methods
Affinity Diagramming
Critiquing
Ideation
Research
Storytelling
Sketching
Personas
Problem Framing
Prototyping
Usability testing
Utilizing Constraints
Wireframing
Tools
Sketch 3
Axure RP
Photoshop
Premiere Pro
After Effects
Unity
Illustrator
Notebook
Languages
C#
Python
Java
HTML/CSS