ABOUT

Mari Shear is a UX/UI designer living in Franklin, Massachusetts. She is passionate about combining years of collaborative, creative experiences into the world of design. Her aim is to make lives a little brighter and to empower users with designs that allow for greater understanding..

Mari's life has been one full creativity, self discipline and entrepreneurship. For over a decade she has worked as a well established and sought after musical collaborator, recording artist and audio engineer. She knows what it takes to combine the efforts of many to make the best end product possible. Mari also has many years of visual merchandising experience and understands the importance of a positive customer experience. She was a brand representative for Hallmark at over 10 locations during her 7 year visual merchandising career. In that time she maintained a level of professionalism with management as well as preparing the retail space for a positive customer experience.

As she has journeyed into the world of UI/UX she has noticed how both her collaborative audio and merchandising experiences will serve her going forward and provide her the skills to be a creative and hardworking team member.

Professional training: Sketch, wireframing, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe XD, Figma, UX Research Techniques, UI Prototyping, Miro, Adobe Lightroom, Protools, Logic Pro, Bitwig, MIDI, Ableton Live, vocal production, standard recording and audio editing techniques.