Christopher Ina
Experience Design, Customer & Usability Research, Agency Life, Product Design, Digital Native, Passion For Designy Things
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About

Experience Design, Customer & Usability Research, Agency Life, Product Design & Management, Process, Digital Native, And A Passion For “Designy Things.”

I lead the Interaction Design, User Experience Design, and eCommerce practice for the Experience Design (XD) department in Digitas’s Chicago office. I bring a passionate approach to advocating for the customer during the strategy direction, research, design, and implementation phases of digital design projects. I most recently led a website re-design for Fortune 150 company Emerson Electric, and have designed digital experiences for clients such as Big Lots, The Field Museum, Cardinal Health, & Empire Today. My achievements include winning The Drum’s B2B Brave 2017 Award for “Best Enterprise Website.“ | Download my resume

  • VR Experiences, Voice Assistant Experiences, Design Systems, Competitive Analysis & Documentation, Project Requirement Documentation, Agile Delivery, Roadmapping & Backlog Grooming, Creation of Customer Research Prototypes, Customer Involvement Facilitation & Execution, Business Development Pitches & RFP Responses, Creation of Design System & Style Guides, Service Design and Strategy Planning, Online Commerce & Merchandising, Concept & Pitch Brain Storming, Mobile Design & iOS, Responsive Web Design (RWD), UI Process Flows, Design Ops & Process Optimizations

  • Figma, AxureRP 8, Sketch, Principle, Zeplin, InVision/DSM, Adobe InDesign/Illustrator/Photoshop, CMS (WordPress/CoreMedia/WCS 7.0/AEM/Hybris), Apple Keynote/iMovie/Xcode, Microsoft Visio/Word/Excel/Powerpoint, OptimalWorkshop, Userlytics.com, Usertesting.com

    • DePaul Univ., Chicago, BS Human-Computer Interaction, Minor in Digital Cinema (2006)

    • Vice President/Group Director, Experience Design, Digitas (2015 - present)

    • User Experience, RWD & Mobile Design Consultant (2011 - 2015)

    • Senior Manager, User Experience, Manifest Digital (2008 - 2014)

    • User Interface Designer, Walgreens Health Services, Deerfield, IL (2007 - 2008)

    • User Interface, Interaction, Multimedia Intern at Motorola, Inc. (2005)

    • Substitute UX Design Instructor at Starter League, formerly Code Academy

    • DePaul University Career Advisor & General Assembly Panelist/Speaker

 

Check Out What I’m Up To

It’s official. It has been 365 days since I started working from home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. My computer started going on the fritz today because I think it knows how we both feel. Be well everyone.
Rainy morning run or bank heist? You be the judge. #mychicagomarathon
18 weeks leading up to this one day. Thank you everyone for the support and kind words of encouragement. It’s gonna be great. @chicagoendurancesports @chimarathon #runthechi
Starting off @chimarathon weekend with a lot of excitement. Flat tire on the highway while going to pick up my packet! I never thought this would be me. Even last year I was thinking y’all people are crazy. Guess I’m ready to be one of th
So tomorrow will be another one for the books (as @_jmarie3 would say “God willing”). It’s not a “race” but the “Long Run” 20-miler. Call it “a race day dress rehearsal.” Tomorrow will be my longe
16 miler this week. And what do you finally eat for lunch after you run your longest distance ever? Chicken f’ing nachos! Thanks for the @chimarathon training @chicagoendurancesports #mychicagomarathon #runthechi #running #ilovestats #keeponkee