Garen Chanchanian
Visual Designer focusing on UX/UI
My UX Design Process
Understand
It’s important to start by understand the client and their goals, along with their target audience, and branding identity. Then discover any setbacks or problems the user may come across and try to understand why those occur.
Explore
Upon comprehending the user's issues, I start by creating different solutions and designing wireframes and prototypes to conceptualize these ideas. Following this I usually do some rigorous testing to ensure all buttons and affordances function appropriately.
Materialize
Once testing ideas and evaluating different solutions to these problems, I add the finishing touches to the design (color, UI finishing touches, build design system). It is important to keep a consistent design system with good accessibility to ensure a seamless and inclusive user experience, reinforce brand identity, and streamline development.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Freelance Designer
Mostly graphic design work done for local businesses and organizations; building things like business cards, menus, promotional flyers, brochures, adverts and posters. Also have done some 3d product design as a bid for a new upcoming coffee company. Lately have focused on transitioning from graphic design to UX design.
UX Design Intern
First official design position of mine. In this internship I collaborated with the design and dev team to create prototypes, components and design libraries. studied design user flows, wire-framing, process and interaction flows as well as design patterns. Help senior designer restructure the app and implement new designs.
Auto Detail Specialist
GC Autoshine is my personal automotive mobile detail business that I own and operate all by myself on my free time. Everything visual for this company, like the logos, menus, brochures, business cards, marketing and social media was designed or created by me. Running this business has taught me a whole lot, especially in the marketing and media sector.
Also owner, and marketing coordinator….technically?
EDUCATION
Fresno City College - Fresno, CA
Class of 2022 - Graduated Dec 2022
Major - AA in Graphic Communication
Degree - Graphic Design
Shiftnudge by MDS - UI Design
Calendar Mockup
Projects
Link to Figma prorotype
Here I created a simple calendar widget as a mockup project.
This was a basic, simple mockup done for an online UI course I took called ShiftNudge. Bookling is an RSVP app used to book spots for events like weddings, parties, etc...
Link to Figma File prototype
Bookling
GC Autoshine is my personal business that I started in 2020. I am a one man team providing mobile auto detailing in the Fresno and surrounding area, and occasionally in the SF Bay Area. Cars have always played a significant role in my life and detailing had been a hobby of mine since I started driving at 16 years old. So when the world came to a halt due to the pandemic, I decided to put my skills to use and start a mobile auto detailing business providing full service interior and exterior detailing from the comfort of the client’s own home.
This business led to a lot of personal design projects for me, things like the creating the website, SEO optimization, designing business cards, pricing menu's, brochures, and client relations.
GC Autoshine
GC Autoshine’s website, designed for both mobile and desktop. www.gcautoshine.com
Credit card checkout UI mockup page for an online shoe vendor.
Credit Card Checkout
This is more of a product design example and less of my UX/UI skills. Casana Coffee co is an up and coming coffee company based out of the South San Francisco Bay Area, with direct ties to coffee farmers in Brazil and El Salvador. They wanted me to complete a range of packaging mockups on things like coffee bags, chocolate bars, and merchandise to give them an idea of which direction to take their packaging.
Casana Coffee
Coffee bag mock-ups for Casana’s Brazilian Blend 16 oz bags.
Wine tasting poster created for event at Cedar Creek Vineyards, along with a couple labels created for their Cab and Pinot 2018 blends.
Cedar Creek Vineyards
This poster is an example of a project I was given to advertise an annual Armenian festival, listing the basic information regarding date, time, and location.
Musa Ler Foundation
Logo Design
Black Cat Cafe
GC Autoshine
Musa Ler Fresno