Peter Maziak is a skilled User Experience Designer with over 15 years of professional experience with web and multimedia projects, including design, research, development, management, and instruction. Currently, Peter is a Sr. UX Designer at Sensis, an agency in downtown Los Angeles. Previously, he was a Sr. Interaction Designer for HP Enterprise Services consulting to Universal Music Group. He is active in the LA UX community.

Feel free to view Peter Maziak's resume and portfolio.

Skills and Expertise:

• UX Design
  • Interaction Design
  • Information Architecture
  • Content Strategy
  • Business Analysis
  • Wireframes
  • Site Maps
  • User Flows
  • Copywriting
  • Social Media Integration
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Mobile Applications
• UX Research
  • Usability Testing
  • Personas
  • Ethnographic Interviews
  • Stakeholder Interviews
  • Heuristic Evaluations
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Content Inventory & Audit
  • Web Analytics
• Software Development
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • Project Management
  • Quality Assurance (QA)
• Web Development
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Content Management System (CMS)
  • Drupal
• Visual Design
• Adobe Creative Suite
  • InDesign
  • Photoshop
  • Dreamweaver
  • Flash

Positions Peter is experienced in include:

• User Experience (UX) Designer
• User Experience (UX) Researcher
• Interaction (IX) Designer
• User Interface (UI) Designer
• Information Architect (IA)
• Business Analyst
• Web Analyst
• Web Designer
• Mobile Designer
• Project Manager
• Creative Director
• Front End Web Developer
• Web Producer
• Design Researcher
• Flash Developer
• Team Lead
• Product Designer
• Product Manager
• Program Manager
• DVD/CD/kiosk Developer
• Game Developer
• Mobile Developer
• Technology Integrator
• Instructor
• Instructional Designer
• Video Editor

Other skills:

• AJAX
• CSS3
• HTML5
• A/B testing
• data mining
• smartphones
• social networking
• mobile computing
• pervasive computing
• location aware computing
• digital game-based learning
• social media marketing (facebook)

• Human Computer Interaction
• Search Engine Optimization
• Information Architecture
• Interaction Metaphors
• User-centered design
• Contextual Inquiries
• Gestural Interfaces
• Multimedia Design
• Interface Design
• Visual Hierarchy
• Web Metrics
• Web Design
• Wireframes
• User Flow
• Mapping
• CSS

Pet Peeves:

• No clear call to action
• Everything center aligned
• No tooltip (title attribute!)
• Too many options
• Using the wrong design pattern