William Szilveszter / Interaction Designer

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Available for hire. Please contact me for pricing and availability.

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Pixel perfect. This is absolutely compulsory. Clean, crisp, and meticulously crafted designs. Period.

Deeply passionate about technology with an intrinsic interest in engineering. From the moment I took apart our family's VCR, I have been enamored with technology and how things work (or why they don't).

Art permeates the soul. I picked up a pencil at the tender age of four and have never looked back, electing to sit in the library and draw comic books while the other kids ran around on the playground.

Relish problem solving. I sought a minor in Philosophy to satiate my burning desire to seek out the answers to, well, everything. Mysteries exercise the mind, and like the body, it needs the conditioning.

Rising to the challenge. Tight deadlines or difficult situations do not scare me, they invigorate me. There is always a solution (often multiple ones) to any given problem, and anything can be accomplished provided a person wants it bad enough.

Self-motivated, team-player with excellent communication skills (post-secondary classes in creative writing and demonstrated skills in oral speaking). Fluent in English and proficient in French.

Technical Skills

Interaction design, specializing in mobile applications and responsive websites. Adept at identifying needs, conceptualizing problem space, prototyping, testing, and interpreting data. Intrinsic passion for designing user interfaces and detailed graphical elements that drive usability and heighten the user experience.

Over 6 years of professional experience in Adobe Photoshop. Able to craft user interface elements across desktop and mobile platforms (optimized for both standard and high-definition displays), application icons, and everything in between.

Front-end designer with advanced knowledge in HTML / CSS and a cursory command of javascript (e.g., jquery).

Education

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology / Minor in Philosophy (2011).

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    Experience a new dimension in refinement and sophistication. Jaku is derived from painstaking attention to detail and a love for all things intricate.

    Jaku for the iPhone
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    Jaku Icons
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    Each revision is careful not to disrupt the current aesthetic, taking form around the existing design, to provide an elegant and consistent user experience.

    Jaku Lock Screen
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    Jaku Notification Center
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    Jaku is $2.99 and available only in the Cydia Store. It supports both the iPhone and iPod Touch, provided they have a Retina Display, and is fully compatible with iOS 5 and iOS 6.

    Jaku Dock
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