Miguel Muniz Designer & Developer

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Hello, I'm Miguel Muniz

A product designer versed in front-end development with half a decade of experience. I'm focused on creating digital interfaces and design systems. With my curiosity, knowledge, and persistence, it's my goal to find solutions, build products, and continuously grow.

Experience & Education

University of Nebraska

Web Designer & Developer

October 2018 – February 2022

Responsibilities

Worked on a team of 3 designers, 5 developers, and 1 product owner to create a design system for the University of Nebraska, a learning management system for the University of Nebraska High School, and an internal event management system for the Office of the President.

Details
  • Collaborated with the team and stakeholders to prioritize future design work, gather requirements, and incorporate user feedback.
  • Created 300+ user stories in an agile/scrum environment where we continuously shipped features for our learning management system and event management system.
  • Designed, prototyped, and performed quality assurance for 50+ implemented features.
  • Conducted 3 application-wide accessibility audits using screen readers and browser extensions.
  • Established a product design process and coding principles in collaboration with team members to increase efficiency, code consistency, and product quality.
  • Built 50+ design system components and 20+ pattern library documentation pages, reducing the time needed to develop web applications by 50%.

Firespring

Front-End Web Developer

May 2017 – October 2018

Responsibilities

Worked on a team of 1 designer and 5 front-end developers focused on setting up customer's websites, developing custom website themes, and maintaining websites for a proprietary CMS.

Details
  • Developed custom themes for small to medium businesses based on designer's mockups
  • Performed quality assurance testing and bug reporting for fellow developers
  • Fixed client bug reports and completed client requests
  • Documented front-end practices and worked with developers to improve our internal framework
  • Worked with customer service to set up clients in the CMS and migrated content from their previous websites

Fruitful Design & Strategy

Graphic Design Intern

October 2016

Southeast Community College

Graphic Design | Media Arts

July 2015 – June 2017

Skills & Strengths

Proficient

  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Branding, Logo Design
  • Cross Browser Testing
  • CSS, Sass, PostCSS
  • Design Systems, Documentation
  • Figma, Sketch, Adobe Xd
  • Git, GitHub, Azure Repos
  • Gulp, Webpack
  • HTML, Handlebars, Nunjucks
  • Icon Design, Illustration
  • Image Optimization
  • Terminal, CLI tools
  • UI/UX, Product Design
  • Wireframing, Prototyping

Knowledgeable

  • Accessibility, WCAG, ADA
  • Bootstrap, Foundation, Tailwind
  • Javascript, jQuery, React
  • Screen Readers, VoiceOver
  • SVG, XML

Related

  • Agile/Scrum Project Management
  • Comprehensive Quality Assurance
  • Effective Self Organization
  • Extensive Client Research
  • Intuitive Problem Solving
  • Self-Motivated Learner

Personal

Provided by CliftonStrengths, these reflect my personality and work ethic.

Analytical
"Searches for reasons and causes. They have the ability to think about all the factors that might affect a situation."
Learner
"Possess a great desire to learn and wants to continuously improve."
Deliberative
“Takes serious care in making decisions or choices. They anticipate obstacles.”
Restorative
“Adept at dealing with problems. They figure out what is wrong and resolve it.”
Intellection
“They are introspective and appreciate intellectual discussions. Simply describes they like to think."

Projects & Portfolio

Theorem

Theorem's login page on a desktop Theorem's course page on a tablet Theorem's course page on mobile

Product Design

The University of Nebraska High School is an accredited online high school serving students since 1929. They needed to replace their aging learning management system used by students, staff, and proctors. Theorem is the successor to their old system, giving students a modern and intuitive learning experience across desktop and mobile.

NUcleus for Apps

NUcleus for Apps' component documentation page NUcleus for Apps' component live preview page NUcleus' version selection page

Design & Front-End Web Development

The University of Nebraska NeDDS team is in need of a design system for the many web applications they manage. NUcleus for Apps is this system, establishing reusable components, consistent design patterns, and thoughtful guidance. With this system, designers and developers can efficiently create web applications with less resources.

NU Contact

NUContact's dashboard page on desktop NUContact's profile page on desktop NUContact's login page on desktop

Product Design

The University of Nebraska Office of the President has staff in charge of organizing and coordinating events. Their current system is complex and dated. NU Contact replaced their old system with a streamlined interface and refreshed tools tailored for their needs.

The Black Cat

The Black Cat book cover The Black Cat opening title The Black Cat story page

Book Design & Illustration

Feed Books is expanding into the printed book market by publishing public domain books. Feed Books requested a book cover for The Black Cat that would be dark, chaotic, slightly mysterious and would represent the characters in the book to catch the attention of young, avid bookstore shoppers.

Restore, Gorilla Grocery, & Metr.io

Restore logo Gorilla Grocery logo Metr.io logo

Corporate Identity Design

This is a collection of various identities for New Way Singers, Gorilla Grocery, and Metr.io. New Way Singers is a yearly choir series done by Nebraska Christian University, Gorilla Grocery is a youthful and up beat grocery store, and Metr.io is a simplistic and futuristic transportation app.

Staples

Nonfunctioning uncharged phone juxtaposed with a reliable pen and notepad Mislabeled coffee cup relabeled with white out and a pen Broken glasses repaired with tape

Ad Campaign & Illustration

Staples is the leading brand of office supply stores in America. As their business slows outside of the back-to-school season, they required an ad campaign to remind parents that they will always be there for them by using comical and relatable illustrations.

Orbit

Orbit gum with an illustration of a lively fruit and monsters in strange worlds Man looks at a wall with an orbit ad Illustrations of monsters from orbit ads used as stickers in a text message conversation

Ad Campaign & Illustration

Orbit is one of the leading brands of gum in the US. Orbit wanted to highlight how every piece of Orbit gum creates a flavor sensation. With this ad campaign, it uses hand-drawn, playful illustrations to attract a younger demographic with its fun and enticing characters.

Bookmarks

A personal catalog of articles from the web about design and development.

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