Aari J. White
Chicago,IL
Summary
Innovative candidate with proven track record of success in design industry and consistently praised designs by clients and colleagues. Knack for quickly understanding complex design projects to implement solutions efficiently. Highly collaborative designer enjoys working with other professionals to create the best designs.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Design Researcher
Shure Incorporated
02.2022 - Current
- Lead and support over 33 research projects, ensuring high quality, timely delivery, and stakeholder satisfaction in an Agile environment.
- Gather requirements, develop research plans, design surveys, and select appropriate methodologies to guide data collection.
- Conduct and moderate research sessions, facilitate synthesis workshops, and produce impactful deliverables and insight reports using a range of tools including Miro, Adobe Creative Suite, and SurveyMonkey.
Value Added Service (UX Researcher)
HighTower
06.2021 - 02.2022
- Perform competitive research to enhance business optimization, customization, and identify industry trends for new product lines.
- Drive content strategy, management, and enhance usability of landing pages while optimizing information architecture and organizing media.
- Utilize customer research to create engaging newsletter content showcasing upcoming speakers, webinars, and training opportunities.
- Collaborate with virtual business team members to effectively manage projects and meet deadlines using Asana software and excellent communication.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Modern Languages & Literatures
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA01.2013
Skills
- Analytics
- End User Research
- Screener Design
- User Stories
- Personas
- User Mapping (all forms)
- Heuristics Impact
- Accessibility Impact
- Qualitative & Quantitative R/D
- Concept Testing
- A/B Testing
- Card Sorting
- Benchmark Reviews
- E-commerce
- Survey Design
- Usability Testing
- Contextual Inquiry
- Qualitative analysis
- Survey design
- Workshop facilitation
- Information architecture
- Quantitative analysis
- Heuristic evaluation
- Usability testing
Websites
Accomplishments
- Facilitated over 33 research efforts covering design, task flows, user profiles, alpha / beta tests for both hardware and software
- Lead multiple rounds of co-design, card sort, heuristic evaluation, survey design, workshops and more
- Fostered stakeholder engagement and team synergy to answer key questions on digital and physical products under development.
Certification
- Google AI Essentials Certificate Google, Remote 3/2025
- UX/UI Design Certification Springboard, Remote 1/2020 – 8/2021
- 700+ hours of hands-on courses, including 1:1 expert mentor oversight, feedback and design reviews
- Mastery of: IA
- Sketching
- Wireframing
- Prototyping
- Testing
- ECommerce
- Browsing
- Persuasive and anticipatory design
- Gamification
- Behavior change
- Dashboards
- Data design
- Social media
- Product lifecycle
Languages
French (intermediate)
Spanish (basic)
Arabic (basic)
Tools
- Sketch
- Figma
- Adobe Creative Suite
- InVision
- 3D Paint
- Miro
- Marvel Pop
- Jira
- Axure
- Respondent.io
Timeline
Design Researcher
Shure Incorporated
02.2022 - Current
Value Added Service (UX Researcher)
HighTower
06.2021 - 02.2022
Bachelor of Arts - Modern Languages & Literatures
Duquesne University
Similar Profiles
Elmar CifuentesElmar Cifuentes
Engineering Manager at Shure IncorporatedEngineering Manager at Shure Incorporated
Sonny VasquezSonny Vasquez
Service Manager at Shure IncorporatedService Manager at Shure Incorporated
Maya BehlMaya Behl
Amazon Global Marketing Intern at Shure IncorporatedAmazon Global Marketing Intern at Shure Incorporated
Mariyam KarimMariyam Karim
Cloud Engineer at Grindr LLCCloud Engineer at Grindr LLC
Jessenia CordovaJessenia Cordova
Patient Care Technician at Cross Country Temp AgencyPatient Care Technician at Cross Country Temp Agency