Intro
I specialize in maturing digital products from their early development stages to great experiences driven by empathy and data that encourage wide adoption.
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas (2012 – 2016)
BA in Emerging Media & Communications, Caum Laude
University of North Texas (2018 – 2019)
MA in Interaction Design
My Toolbox
These are all the tools I’m very proficient at and have used professionally, I am acquainted with many others.
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Photoshop
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Illustrator
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Indesign
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Adobe XD
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Lightroom
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Adobe CC
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Figma
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Zeplin
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Sketch
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Invision
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Miro
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Balsamiq
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MS Office
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iOS
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MacOS
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Material
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Dropbox
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Jira
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Trello
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VS Code
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HTML5
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CSS3
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Sassy CSS
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jQuery
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WordPress
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Slack
![](https://portfolio.matthewtrader.com/icons/bitcoin.png)
Bitcoin
UX Case Studies
A few case studies from some of the digital products I have designed and assisted with designing.
UX Artifacts
Artifacts from UX projects I have worked on, some of the info has been altered to protect the privacy of former clients.
Ideation: Whiteboarding, Storyboarding, Sketches, & Wireframes
Personas
Design
These are examles of webites, tools, and print media I have designed.
Development
These are websites where I have built primarily the homepage from scratch using the following technoogies:
CSS (including flex-box and CSS grid), HTML5, CSHTML, LESS, SASS, JSON, Handlebars, jQuery, JavaScript, and C# Razor.
I also used popular frameworks and systems such as Bootstrap and BEM.