About Me

Welcome to my Website, I'm Ben Blanj! I'm a User Experience (UX) designer based in Long Island. With a background in fine arts, I bring a unique blend of creativity and analytical thinking to my design process. I have a strong interest in motion design, which allows me to incorporate dynamic and engaging elements into my UX work. I strive to be a do-er, so I designed and coded my own portfolio website. There's a great deal of competition in this field, and my goal is to become the designer who evolves with this industry by utilizing my versatility and innovation.

"I fight for the users" - Tron

Projects

During my time in the Columbia Engineering UX/UI bootcamp, I had the opportunity to collaborate with diverse teams and tackle real-world UX/UI challenges.

Puppet Works Brooklyn

This non-profit serves the community by performing puppet show for children, and by keeping the arts in Brooklyn alive. They have a legacy spanning over 3 decades, but their website was missing essential features, and is a perfect candidate for a "level-lution" design overhaul.

Redesigning Nahow.de

The primary objective for Nahow.de and other non-profits is give users all the neccesary information about their mission, and to turn site traffic into donations. My team and I uncovered insights about user expectations, trustworthiness, and perceptions of non-profit organizations.

Resume

Thank you for taking the time to review my portfolio. I appreciate the opportunity to showcase my work and share my passion for UX/UI design with you. The corner-stone of my skills comes from mybackground as a artist, and my bootcamp experience. I'm enthusiastic to build a career and new skills! Check out my resume below. Thank you!

Skills

Research

One of my essential skills is conducting comprehensive user interviews, usability tests, and surveys to uncover user needs, and behaviors. With this data I can identify meaningful patterns and trends, this allows me to empathize with users and consider important design choices.

Wire-framing
User Interviews
Card Sorting
A/B Testing
Usability Testing
Collaboration & Ideation

Prototyping

I have advanced prototyping skills in both Figma and Adobe XD. My skill in creating interactive components allows me to efficiently layout and iterate high fidelity prototypes. Here is a list of my essential skills:

Wire-framing
Paper-prototyping
High-fidelity prototyping
Testing and Iteration
Creating interactive Components
Figma SVG animations

Front end Development

Code conversational, I possess a deep understanding of front-end web development principles and techniques. With this expertise, I fully coded my portfolio website from scratch, ensuring that every aspect of the website reflects my design vision and showcases my technical abilities.

Html, and Css
Javascript
Github
Visual Studio
Bootstrap

Programs

Figma is my go-to design tool for creating user interfaces, prototypes, and collaborative design workflows. Understanding the full-functionality of figma is important to me, so I can better understand its limits, and how to translate prototypes into code.

Visual Studio is widely used by developers for building a wide range of applications. I have experience writing code, and organizing files in Visual Studio. I can preview my code with a live server plugin, and when its ready to be deployed I use github desktop to push commits to the Github Cloud. Logo

Photoshop is a versatile and industry-leading software. Photoshop enables me as a designer to create visually stunning artwork, retouch images, and produce professional-grade designs. I often use photoshop for presentation purposes, in conjuction with other tools.

Adobe XD is another powerful design and prototyping tool that I use to create interactive and engaging user experiences for websites, mobile apps.

Autodesk Maya 3d modeling is a hobby of mine. I hope to expand of these skills and help create virtual, and spatially Computed interfaces in the future as the technology grows.

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