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Elizabeth Naughton

​ elizabethnaughton@ymail.com  LinkedIn Profile

 

ART DIRECTION  |  VISUAL DESIGN  |  UI/UX  |  MARKETING & PUBLICATION DESIGN

Creative design professional with expertise in UI/UX design with an emphasis on visual design. Trusted partner on cross-functional project teams creating intuitive, standardized, and visually compelling user experiences for digital products, websites, apps, marketing collateral and publications. Strong advocate for the principles of design, usability and enhanced user experience.

 

 

Experience

2016–Present          EN Design Studio  |  Greater NYC Area
Design Consultant

• Provide UI/UX expertise and design guidance to food tech start-up PlateRate.guru as they build apps that help people find great food with menu item level reviews, dietary preference tracking, and the opportunity to earn rewards.
• Serve as a creative design consultant for Summerhill Farm in Park Rapids, MN. Responsible for creating email marketing templates, poster design, and the UI/UX of a Retail Assortment Planning app proof-of-concept for small retail businesses.

 

  2014–2016          S&P Global Market Intelligence (formerly known as S&P Capital IQ)  |  New York, NY

Creative Director, UI/UX Design

Managed Creative Services’ UI/UX Design team. Provided creative direction and strategic design leadership for S&P Capital IQ digital products. Collaborated with cross-functional project teams on the user interface and user experience of new product enhancements with an emphasis on visual design.

• Partnered with Product and Platform Managers to integrate legacy S&P Capital IQ and legacy SNL content onto the S&P Global Market Intelligence 1.0 platform with the objective of increasing scalability and decreasing development effort and time to market.
• Initiated the effort to redesign and modernize the user interface of the S&P Capital IQ platform. Oversaw the creation and maintenance of the S&P CIQ Modernization Style Guide which documented the visual design and UI patterns of the platform.
• Partnered with cross-functional product and development teams to rebuild and simplify the UI/UX of S&P Capital IQ’s ChartBuilder app. Improved user experience by creating an intuitive, elegant UI/UX for basic charts with easy access to advanced capabilities and flexibility for power users.
• Provided UI/UX direction to redesign and rebuild S&P Capital IQ’s Portfolio Attribution app which enables users to create highly customizable dashboards and generate reports to help analyze what drives their portfolio’s performance. Ensured final designs were intuitive and met clients needs.
• Collaborated with cross-functional project teams to create wireframes and visual prototypes to determine how to best present S&P Capital IQ content as an additional distribution channel on Symphony’s secure messaging platform.
• Provide UI/UX expertise and design guidance to food tech start-up PlateRate.guru as they build apps that help people find great food with menu item level reviews, track dietary preferences, and earn rewards.

 

 2010–2014         S&P Capital IQ  |  New York, NY

Senior Manager, Art & Design

Supervised team of design and UI/UX specialists to provide high quality, innovative design services for S&P Capital IQ’s products and marketing collateral consistent with the corporate brand guidelines. Defined product user interfaces, translated business requirements into appropriate and successful user interface designs, visualized product concepts and wireframes using detailed mockups and prototypes.

• Collaborated with large cross-functional teams to create the NxGen UI for the S&P Capital IQ platform based on a design language system created by frog Design. Resulting design consisted of a new, innovative operating system with a robust collaboration capability and a mobile component. Responsible for the UI/UX and visual design of the Investment Management suite of apps, the Executive Dashboard and Company Tearsheet.
• Partnered with the Ratings Market Development team to create the S&P CreditMatters iPhone and iPad apps. These apps provided an easy way to keep up with S&P’s global perspective on important credit market developments and were part of a digital marketing program that received a McGraw-Hill Corporate Achievement Award.
• Partnered with cross-functional teams to create the Credit Health Panel on the Global Credit Portal which was an innovative approach of visualizing data to analyze a company’s risk and how it performs relative to its peers. New design received a Bronze Team ACE Award for “great UI designs, meticulous testing, and a high quality deliverable with absolutely zero defects.”
• Responsible for design management and art direction of CreditWeek, a weekly 80+ page financial trade magazine, as well as various types of sales tools and marketing collateral including: print advertising, banner ads, fact sheets, quick reference guides, product bulletins, folders, brochures, direct mail pieces, white papers, posters, tradeshow booths, specialty items, and e-newsletters.

 

 1998-2010            Standard & Poor’s  |  New York, NY

Senior Manager, Art & Design

Responsible for art direction and project management of Creative Services’ four-member design team and ensuring design strategies were in alignment with corporate objectives.

• Interacted with internal clients and external vendors in the design and implementation of new products, product enhancements, existing publications and marketing materials in both print and electronic media.
• Collaborated and partnered with product, marketing, editorial, production, business analysis, technology, QA and manufacturing teams to create highly effective and innovative solutions to package, present and market S&P products to financial professionals.
• Responsible for design management and art direction of CreditWeek, a weekly 100+ page financial trade magazine.
• Acted as a liaison to regional teams on the roll-out of marketing collateral and provided design and usability assistance on electronic products, as necessary.

 

 1993-1998            York College, The City University of New York  | Jamaica, NY

Senior Graphic Designer

Complete responsibility for Office of Publications, including design, art direction, conceptual development, administrative coordination and production supervision.

Collaborated and partnered with the Admissions, Institutional Advancement, Academic Affairs, and Institutional Research & Planning offices  to create various types of marketing and enrollment communications including: college bulletins, newsletters, viewbooks, bus taillights, brochures, flyers, posters, programs, annual reports, books, calendars, invitations, logos, maps, charts, letterhead, business cards, and forms. Responsible for purchase and maintenance of computer software and peripherals. Supervision of one full-time employee, plus interns.

 

 1990-1993            Educational Research & Marketing Services  |  Bohemia, NY

Graphic Designer

Responsible for design and layout of newsletters, calendars, annual reports, brochures, logos, maps, charts and graphs for a fast-paced, growing public relations company. Clients include non-profit organizations and educational municipalities.

 

 

Education

Pratt Institute

Interactive Design, HTML & Web Design, Intro to 3-D on the Macintosh

 

School of Visual Arts

Designing Web Pages, Collage, Design & Personality, Corporate Identity, Photoshop

 

Western Connecticut State University

BA in Graphic Design

 

 

Awards

120+ Graphic Design USA/American In-House Design Awards 2004-2014

 

 

Skills

Excellent creative direction, design, UI/UX, project management, and communication skills.

Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, Sketch, Invision, Balsamiq, Microsoft Office  (Mac/PC)

Working knowledge of CSS, HTML and HTML5