At Trade Me my responsibilities ranged from research and concept design, to prototyping and illustration. As the only dedicated mobile designer for Trade Me's Marketplace, utilising Apple's Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) along with Google's Material Design guidelines were essential in bringing Trade Me's Tangram design system to mobile effectively. As both iOS and Android require a different understanding of patterns and guidelines, parity was desired but designed to the strengths of each platform.
Many experiments were conducted in conjunction with improvements to core mobile flows, such as listing an item. A data-driven approach was always taken when conducting experiments and making improvements to products, so appropriate tracking built into experiments, along with user interviews and feedback is essential. Illustrations were made bespoke but also as part of a wider connected illustration system for Trade Me, initially started by illustrator Phoebe Morris.
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