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Mwiza Silozi

Summary

UI/UX Designer with hands on experience taking products from early research to high-fidelity delivery. Comfortable working with user interviews, information architecture, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and component level design systems work. Strong focus on accessibility and WCAG compliance. Looking to join a design team where thoughtful craft and cross-functional partnerships are part of everyday work.

Education

Arizona State University

B.S. Technical Communication and User Experience 2022 to 2026

UI/UX Design Certificate, Product Design Springboard 2020

Grand Rapids Community College

A.A.S. Computer Networking Administration 2008 to 2012

September 2022-May 2026

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Owned end-to-end UX for the core product, running usability tests and iterating on designs until bounce rate dropped by 30%

Super Purposes 2024 UI/UX Designer

May 2024-August 2025

  • Built wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and clickable prototypes in Figma, and walked engineering and stakeholder teams through the reasoning behind each decision.

  • Made WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility a baseline requirement across every surface, not an afterthought

  • Brought in AI tools to speed up research synthesis and early ideation, cutting time spent in discovery.

Swanned 2025 UI/UX Designer Intern

  • Designed and shipped several product features that moved usability scores up by 20%.

June 2025-August 2025

  • Took product requirements and raw research and turned them into wireframes and working prototypes

  • Built out a shared UI component library that the team actually used, which kept things consistent and made handoffs faster.

Projects

  • Took an expat networking app through a full redesign, from initial research all the way to a high-fidelity Figma prototype

Swanned App Redesign Student / Capstone Project

June 2025-August 2025

  • Created site maps, user flows, and task-based studies, then used what we learned to keep refining the design.

  • Finished with a prototype that showed meaningful improvements in how users navigated the app and got through onboarding.

Skills

  • Research, User-Centered Design, Wireframing, Prototyping, Design Systems, Usability Testing, Information Architecture, Responsive Design, Accessibility (WCAG 2.1)

Design and UX

  • Research, User-Centered Design, Wireframing, Prototyping, Design Systems, Usability Testing, Information Architecture, Responsive Design, Accessibility (WCAG 2.1)

Design Tools

  • Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, InVision, Zeplin, Balsamiq, Marvel, Miro, FigJam, Adobe Illustrator

Front-End

  • HTML5 and CSS (solid foundational knowledge; comfortable reading code and working alongside engineers on components)

AI and Workflow

  • AI-assisted research synthesis, content generation, and design ideation; workflow automation

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