Steven Ligatsa
Product Designer
http://ligatsa.com
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Experience
Technical Knowledge
2017 - Current
Strong working knowledge of:
Toptal
Sketch App, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign,
UI/UX Designer
Apple HIG, Google Material Design
2016 - Current
Prototyping tools:
Scalable Path
Adobe After Effects, Axure, Balsamiq, InVision, Keynote, Omnigraffle
Senior UI/UX Designer
Designed for numerous clients around the globe, mainly the United
Familiar with:
States. Projects ranging from UI/UX application design, mobile appli-
Cinema 4D, Adobe Flash, Fontlab, HTML & CSS
cation design, responsive web design, and company branding-
Affiliations & Awards
Alpha Hotel, Medan & Pekanbaru, Indonesia
Managing Director
Awarded US Patent US- B2
Responsible for the design of the whole branding system. Revamped
Patent Title : Autocorrecting text for the purpose of matching words
the web experience of the hotel website. Managed the online market-
from an approved corpus.
ing campaign, which along with the revamping of the web experi-
Original Assignee : Disney Enterprises, Inc.
ence, managed to increase the conversation rate up to 35%.
Designed the UI & UX concept for auto-correction in order to
support the Phrase-Autocomplete function which is essential in Dis-
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ney products for kids such as Club Penguin and others.
Disney Interactive Studios, Redmond, WA
Interaction Designer
Los Angeles Unified School District
Designed and rapid prototyped the UI & UX for the Disney Social
Designmatters, Transdisciplinary Studio
Apps (Desktop & Mobile). Some of the apps that were designed
Worked with a group of four students in order to create a
and prototyped includes Avatar, Chat, Friends, Like Button,
campaign to deglamorized gun among at-risk teens. This project
Auto-Correct, News Feed, Mobile, and others.
was sponsored by the LAUSD.
Art Center College of Design
Education
Graphic Design Departmental Scholarship
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
University of Leeds
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors – Graphic Design
International Scholarship
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Big Brother & Big Sister, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
Majored in Biology
Volunteered as a big brother to a group of kids who did not have a
male figure in their lives. Spent one day weekly for two to three hours
playing and having fun with the kids.
