Hi there,
I'm
Chris
Coady

Digital Craftsman
&
UX Designer Art Director Brand Strategist UI Developer User Advocate Storyteller

Hi there, I'm Chris Coady | Designer & Developer

Chris Coady

I help brands interact with people

Digital Products

  • Creating useful experiences
  • Mapping out friendly interfaces
  • Building interactive prototypes
  • Improving products through testing
  • Optimizing for people and devices

Marketing

  • Targeting your audience
  • Aquiring customers
  • Retention and churn
  • Cultivating brand loyalty
  • Monetizing marketing efforts
  • Direct marketing

Branding

  • Telling a story
  • Interacting with customers
  • Evolving with technology
  • Visual identity
  • Scaling brand design

Through the use of design and technology

Design Practices

  • Visual design & creative direction
  • User interface (UI) design
  • User experience (UX) research & design
  • Web design & development (front-end)
  • Digital advertising
  • Email design and distribution
  • Design for print

Deep Interests

  • Design thinking methods
  • User-centered design process
  • Corporate identity
  • Product design lifecycle
  • Interaction design
  • Inbound marketing
  • Accessibility

Areas of Focus

  • Customer experience (CX)
  • Content management systems (CMS)
  • Customer relationship management (CRM)
  • Design systems and style guides
  • Typography
  • Design education & training
  • Leadership & vendor management

Relying on fundamental methods and tools

Skills/Chops

  • Graphic imaging
  • Digital illustration
  • Interactive prototypes
  • Responsive design
  • Storyboarding
  • Wireframing
  • Logo design
  • Email design

Tools of the trade

Design apps |

Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, InDesign, draw.io, balsamiq, InVision, Sketch, Figma, Experience Manager

Dev tools |

HTML, CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, mySQL, SVN, Git, MAMP, .NET, FTP, Sublime Text, TextEpander, FileZilla, Litmus, EOA, WordPress, HubSpot

Project management |

Google Suite, Basecamp, Trello, Slack, Jira, Salesforce, Pardot, Marketo, ExactTarget, Mailchimp

Industry Experience

  • ✔ Start-up, agency, SMBs
  • ✔ Product or marketing side
  • ✔ Agile, lean, SaaS
  • ✔ Tech, consumer goods, Ecomm
  • ✔ Healthcare, edu, fintech
  • ✔ Advisor & leadership roles
  • ✔ Autonomous yet collaborative
  • ✔ Freelance, contract & full-time
  • ✔ In-house, remote, or client-facing