Colin Walcott is a UX Designer located in Toronto Ontario, focused on creating user-centered digital experiences that are intuitive, inclusive, and engaging. He has applied UX and UI best practices across Retail, Healthcare, and Financial sectors.

His work emphasizes accessibility and user behavior, leading to seamless and efficient interactions. Key tasks include prototyping, iterative design, accessibility integration for mobile and web, and usability testing to uncover pain points and boost conversion. Recently, he’s been leveraging Generative AI tools to enhance public-facing features.

On the recreational end, Colin Play the trombone, including:

Embracing styles of Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Christian Music, World Music, Ragtime, Blues, Contemporary Church Music, Hymns, Dixieland, Worship Music, Soul Music, New Orleans Jazz, Soul Jazz, jazz fusion, Latin Jazz, Smooth Jazz and Participates in Jams.

On daily tasks, his focus is on the following Tools & Technologies:

- Prototyping & Design: Axure RP, Figma, ProtoPie, Sketch, InVision

- Creative Suite: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Audition

- Collaboration & Workflow: Miro, Visio, Acrobat

- Concept Design: Adobe Creative Suite for motion graphics

- Instructional Design: Captivate, Storyline

- Visualizations: Premiere, Autodesk 3Ds Max, Flow Studio

Key Contributions

- Designing accessible web content, media, and interfaces across platforms.

- Auditing websites, PDFs, videos, eLearning materials, and other digital assets for accessibility.

- Developing high-fidelity wireframes, site maps, user flows, and interactive prototypes.

- Supporting teams with accessibility training and inclusive design best practices.

- Prep Prototypes for real word user testing

- Sketch, Wireframe, Generate User and Task Flows, Prototype and do real-word user testing designs

Applications of tools and Skillsets:

- Accessibility (Integrate AODA, WCAG, ADA, 508 Compliance)

- AI (ChatGTP, Co-pilot, Gemini, Grok leveraged to enhance and innovate concepts)

- Micro-interactions (interactive items with variables, functions, CSS and conditions)

- Markup (HTML, CSS)

Prototyping:

- Figma (render and present mocks)

- Axure RP (interactive designs with variables and conditions for advanced prototypes)

- ProtoPie (present dynamic multimedia enhancements for user testing)

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