Welcome to the online resume and portfolio of Jim O'Brien, passionate UX / user interaction designer (IxD) and evangelist for the user experience.

In short, I solve problems through design and leadership.

My career has primarily been focused on coming up with design solutions through critical thinking, collaboration, wireframes, task flows, sitemaps, and detailed design specifications. I have also been a leader, growing and mentoring teams through authenticity and trust.

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UX Design and Leadership Experience

• Advocate for design team and its abilities.
• Mentoring and team cohesion.
• Design processes.
• Cross-functional team collaboration.
• Project estimation.
• Requirements clarification and refinement.
• Design strategy.
• Design liason with vendors.
• Balancing of design, business needs, and timeline.
• Application (web, desktop, RIA), intranet, 10ft UI, and website (B2C and B2B) design.
• Mobile-first responsive and adaptive web design.
• Wireframes, task flows, prototypes, and detailed design specifications.
• User research.
• Ability to code and understand HTML and CSS.
• Accessibility.
• Search engine optimization (SEO).