Alvaro Araoz, Web & UX/UI Designer

Who I am?

UX/UI and web designer with 14 years of experience and many webs and webapps designed over the years, used to organize and work with deadlines and teamwork.

I was born on March 2, 1992 and from a very young age I have felt the call of new technologies. I am a born entrepreneur and from a very young age I try projects and try to carry them out. I love web design and graphic design, online marketing and in general everything that has to do with creativity.

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Experience 💻

My professional journey

· UX Designer, Entelgy — 2024 - Current

Development of interfaces with usability criteria, taking into account the user experience on different platforms of each client.

Design and UX development of FrontEnd interfaces to be used by development teams with Java and .NET backend technologies.

Support and attention to functional and technical issues related to UX interfaces.

Functional testing of applications, development of user manuals and documentation. Review of documentation regarding the use of interfaces.

· DxP UX/UI Consultant, Jakala — Mar 2024 - May 2024

100% external UI design for the Finetwork redesign project including temporary updates to the public website and the app (until the redesign is delivered) as well as the redesign of the Finetwork public website.

· Mid UX Designer / UI Developer, Kimia Solutions — Jul 2023 - Dec 2023

Design and development of landing pages for a CPL project through Figma & VS Code + PhpStorm. Creation of forms through Jotform and integration through Javascript in the landing pages. Deployment via git and Jenkins.

· Web Design and Maintenance, Home Hunters — 2022 - 2024

Design and maintenance of the corporate website, as well as web analytics.

· Web Design, Xeerpa Marketing Solutions — May 2015 - Sep 2015

Internship in the web design and online marketing department.

· Web Design, Freelance — 2010 - Currently on a part-time basis

Design of dynamic web pages - mainly WordPress, corporate, personal, landing pages, also static pages depending on the characteristics of the project, all with responsive designs. Development of Progressive Web Apps (PWA). Management of hosting and servers, and domain registration.

Education 👨‍🎓

My academic background

· Master in UX/UI Design — Nuclio Digital School — Oct. 2022 - Mar. 2023

· Master in Graphic Design — Aula Creactiva — Feb. 2016 - Jun. 2016

· Master in Community Manager and Online Marketing — CICE — Nov. 2014 - May. 2015

· Technician in Commerce — Centro de FP Virgen de la Luz — Sep. 2012 - Dec. 2013

Courses and other certifications 📃

My commitment to learning

· Foundations Lvl. 1 — Hotjar — Nov. 2023

· Digital Marketing Certified — HubSpot Academy — Jun. 2022

· Content Marketing Certified — HubSpot Academy — Jun. 2022

· Mobile App Development Course — Google Actívate — May. 2018

· Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) — Google — May. 2015

Most developed skills 📃

My skill set

Figma, Penpot, Design Systems, Web Interface Design, Mobile Interface Design, HTML, CSS/SCSS, Javascript, Visual Studio Code, git, Jenkins, Jotform, WordPress, Online Marketing (SEO /SEM), Web Analytics (Google Analytics), Hotjar, Slack, ClickUp, Notion and Trello, Graphic Design (advanced knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop and Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher), CMS content managers (special knowledge of Wordpress), Social Media Management, Online Marketing (SEO/ SEM), Web Analytics, Web Hosting (various control panels, especially cPanel& DirectAdmin) and Domain management (Registration, transfer, DNS management), Web server management (XAMPP, MAMP, DNS, Emails, ...), MS Office, Windows environment, Linux environment and Mac OS environment.