Bryon Urbanec - UI/UX Designer & Front-end Developer

UI/UX Designer in Northern, Colorado. I strive to design and build useful experiences connecting my client's products to the core of their visitors.

My Road

Over the past 11+ years I have joined forces with clients of all sizes, in many industries. Together we collaborate in an iterative process of design and visitor optimization.

Experience

2018–Present

RehabCreative

Front End Developer and Web Designer

  • Manage website development projects from initial development through completion, optimizing for cross-browser compatibility
  • Work closely with developers and clients to meet project requirements, goals, and desired functionality.
  • Maintained and developed new features for existing clients.
  • Assessed UX and UI designs for technical feasibility
2013–2018

NEWMEDIA

UI/UX Design Strategist
Senior Designer
Front-end Developer

UI/UX Design Strategist

Worked closely with development team in an Agile/Scrum work flow to design visually-compelling, brand-consistent, responsive, and highly-usable websites and web applications for PaaS/SaaS, B2B, and B2C clients.

  • Lead User Experience and User Interface designer for responsive web sites and web applications.
  • Partnered with clients to create solutions that support and build brand presence and meet business requirements.
  • Responsible for leading, developing and evolving the design process.
  • Developed and trained junior level design talent.
  • Developed and maintain tools for in browser wire-framing and design.
  • Designed and built fully-interactive HTML5/CSS3 prototypes with click-throughs, used for client presentations, wire-frames, and mock-ups.
  • Produced style guides and web interaction stylesheets for developers.

Senior Designer

Art direction, brand development and management of design team.

  • Lead and developed 10 members of the design team.
  • Organized weekly design critiques.
  • Continually developed design process.
  • Establish best practices for creative development across all touch points.

Front-end Developer

Developed fully functional mobile-first responsive websites based on Business Requirements using Drupal, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

  • Worked in both Agile and Waterfall settings.
  • Determined content structure and information architecture.
  • Responsible for site-building and taking completed designs through development to site completion.
  • Maintained brand standards under company guidelines.
  • Browser tested front-end code to ensure cross-browser compatibility.
  • Leveraged responsive frameworks such as Bootstrap and Foundation to consistently complete and deliver components on time.
2010–2013

Variant Studios

Web Designer + Drupal Themer

Worked with a variety of clients to create web solutions that successfully support and build brand image, presence and meet business requirements.

  • Responsible for the design of impactful brand consistent web sites.
  • Creatively conceived design solutions and illustrations to support and build brand presence and awareness.
  • Identified and developed content and information architecture.
  • Built and maintained Drupal websites using HTML5, CSS3/SASS and jQuery.

Education

B.A. Graphic Design

University of Northern Colorado

B.A. Music (Saxophone)

University of Northern Colorado