Enya Bours

About

Product designer fascinated by human connection, passionate about crafting innovative and inclusive user experiences, and eager to tackle new challenges. Previously @ Small Acts for Sustainability and Adobe (via Gaucho Creative). Recently graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a Communication B.A., Multimedia Writing and Design Minor, and Technology Management Certificate. Currently designing @ California Sea Grant and tutoring @ AJ Tutoring.

Experience

• Co-Founder & Designer · Goody 2 Shoes Design Studio02-01-2024

  https://g2s.framer.website/

• Design Lead · Small Acts for Sustainability01-01-2023 – 03-01-2023

  Led team of five designers to create an educational period-tracking mobile app for an underserved community in South Asia. Conducted user research and testing to identify user needs, inform design decisions, and iterate prototype. Oversaw entire design process, managed design handoff to engineers, and presented final product to client.

• Project Manager · SB Creative Lab10-01-2021 – 01-01-2023

  Introduce design thinking process to product team with diverse backgrounds to drive human-centric outcome. Lead two design projects with four designers to create food delivery app for local restaurant and Yelp redesign. Organize user research survey, journey mapping, prototyping, and testing to meet project timeline.

• UI/UX Design Lead · SB Creative LabInvalid date – Invalid date

  Spearheaded two redesign projects to increase user base and accessibility of website and design resources. Collaborated with designers and engineers to develop two React.js websites that reached 150+ users across 20+ schools. Expanded existing brand guidelines to create design system, visual assets, wireframes, prototypes, and user flows.

• Designer (Gaucho Creative) · AdobeInvalid date – Invalid date

  Conducted competitive analysis and user interviews to identify pain points, awareness level, and desire to adopt. Promoted new design thinking framework to internal teams to increase efficiency of problem-solving processes. Designed marketing materials, strategy reports (50+ pages), and 70+ slide deliverable to present to stakeholders.

• UX Designer · Product ClassroomInvalid date – Invalid date

  Virtual design classroom featuring weekly speakers/workshops, small group work, and semester-long solo project. Conducted user research via Google Forms survey. Identified user pain points and used research data to create personas. Brainstormed potential solutions and mapped out user flow. Developed and iterated low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes on Figma.

• Senior Layout Editor, Staff Writer · The Bottom Line Newspaper03-01-2020

  Direct layout team in the production of weekly paper (Adobe InDesign), maintain brand and editorial aesthetic. Brief editorial board on layout team progress. Outline, draft, revise, and publish 7 articles and illustrations; discuss and implement revisions with section editors. Conduct interviews with students, alumni, and local artists.

• Lead Research Assistant · UCSB Communication DepartmentInvalid date – 12-16-2022

  Formulated research questions, delegated research articles to the team for literature review, and led biweekly meetings. Highlighted key themes and observations during focus groups. Transcribe and analyze focus group audio using Descript. Conducted collaborative open coding of focus groups using Atlas.ti. Completed weekly tasks in a timely manner and reported progress to Slack channel. Reviewed findings in weekly discussions.

Education

• UC Santa BarbaraBachelor's Degree, Communication
• Google User Experience Design CertificateBootcamp, UX Design

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