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About

"Whatever the project, she produces engaging and practical design solutions that delight."

Claire has design-agency and client-side experience dating back over 20 years. The diversity of her clients means her work spans a broad range of industries and disciplines, providing solutions for evolving platforms.

Talking all the languages of customers, businesses, users, and developers is a valuable skill; Claire covers all areas from briefing to information architecture and wireframes, slick visual designs, prototypes, and UAT.

Always working closely with the client/stakeholder, project managers and developers alike, her UI designs are creative yet practical, and the clarity of the end goal is maintained throughout the entire process.

Overall, functionality and design are equally important in producing a user-friendly product. Claire believes in solid collaboration between designers and programmers to ensure a seamless user journey (UX).

Claire has many recommendations from clients, employers and colleagues. View her view her CV and her profile.

So, what is Art Directions?

Claire ran Art Directions successfully for a number of years, providing design services to numerous clients. Eventually choosing to work for a bigger company, she made her company dormant in 2017. Being pretty much synonymous with the brand, she retains the domain to showcase her portfolio.

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Industry experience

Claire’s previous clients and employers are from diverse industries. Whatever the industry, the design process is essentially the same:

Discover ⇒ Define ⇒ Design ⇒ Deliver

  • Design & marketing
  • eCommerce & retail
  • Education
  • Finance
  • FMCG
  • Healthcare & pharmaceuticals
  • Real estate
  • Software development
  • Sport & leisure
  • Telecoms & technology
  • Transport & logistics

Disciplines

Claire is an accomplished multi-disciplined designer (with developer skills) with over two decades of experience in the following creative disciplines:

  • UX & UI
  • Responsive design
  • Websites
  • Mobile apps
  • Interactive & multimedia presentations
  • Audio & video
  • Online banners
  • Advertising
  • Branding, logos & identity
  • Print (flyers, datasheets, business stationery, brochures, packaging, event graphics, etc)
  • Photography
  • Illustration

Software & language skills

Claire is always adding new strings to her bow, but she’s a fast learner so getting those 5 stars won’t take long!

  • Adobe Creative Cloud, InDesign,
    Illustrator, Photoshop, typing 70WPM
  • Acrobat, After Effects, Audition, Axure, DreamWeaver, Flash animation, Flash AS2, PowerPoint, Premiere, QuarkXPress, Soundbooth, SoundForge, Word
  • Balsamiq, Encore, HTML & CSS, various CMS, Visio, Basic French
  • Excel, Expression Blend, Fireworks, Flash AS3, InVision, Visual Studio, XAML, XML
  • CS, Joomla, JS, Sitecore
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