Christina Grimaldi
Senior UX Designer

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Hello — My name is Christina. It’s nice to meet you. I’m an experienced Senior User Experience Designer with a demonstrated history of working in the retail and travel sectors.

I started my career as a Visual Designer. I have over five years experience in this sector. However, my curiosity and love for problem solving was too strong. I made the transition to User Experience Design and never looked back.

I have had the pleasure of working for some of Australia’s most successful retailers.

Clients include:

︎ Aesop
︎ Country Road Group
︎ Bunnings Warehouse
︎ SEEK

Everyday I work closely with POs, Developers, UX, UI, internal and external stakeholders to craft the best experience possible for our customers and I love it.

The intersection of design and technology to improve the lives of others truly inspires me.

I am also inspired by helping others and have mentored multiple Junior UX Designers throughout my career. I enjoy teaching and sharing what I know with others because together we rise not alone.

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“Christina worked in my team at AIA as a UX/UI Designer. Christina has strong UX design skills and is a great problem-solver for digital experiences. I was impressed with her UX research skills and how she handled herself interviewing customers. She also has a strong business acronym along with brand and marketing knowledge. This is a strong asset when designing for digital experiences. Christina is customer-centric and will advocate for the customer at any opportunity and is not afraid to speak up. In addition to her strong UX skills, Christina is also very organized and will take every opportunity to create processes, organise work output in such a fashion that all team members will benefit from it and she will proactively seek solutions where she finds gaps. Christina is hardworking, reliable and a strong asset to any team and business that may hire her.”

Jette Aagaard Doherty, Senior Manager Digital Experience & Design, AIA

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“I was lucky enough to work with Chrissy on our team for four months at AIA. In that time Chrissy worked along side me desiging and user testing interfaces for the new AIA Vitality app, which she quickly understood the complexity and breadth of. She brought fresh ideas and was a strong advocate for the user in all aspects of her work. Chrissy organised and ran end-to-end user testing sessions, writing the scripts, prototyping and synthesised the research, presented to stakeholders and implimented the insights in the designs. I wouldn't hesitate to have Chrissy on my team again and I hope we work together again in the future.”

Kyle Gillis, Digital User Experience Design Lead, AIA

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“Chrissy is the mentor you've always wanted. Always giving you the time and advice when needed. Chrissy displays strong skills of collaboration and ambition in whatever she does. Working with Chrissy was a pure delight, her willingness to give and receive helpful feedback, dedication and passion for what she does showed in her work and research. In meetings she would give constructive advice and was really committed to making everyone in her team feel like they had a voice. Chrissy always put the user first, was a great problem solver and always considered and prioritised stakeholder goals. I hope one day are paths will cross again.“

Emma Stott, Senior Prodcut Designer, Australia Post

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“Chrissy joined the team at AKQA as an Experience Designer and I had to chance to work directly and indirectly with her on Australia's favourite brand ‘Bunnings’. She is, first, a warm and lovely person and integrated into the team very easily but she is also an incredibly focused and driven individual who brings a great deal of energy and passion to the team. Chrissy has a strong grasp of the process she needs to follow, to see a problem through from discovery to delivery of value to customers and is able to pivot and be flexible on her approach for each step of her problem-solving journey. I would recommend her for any UX/UI Design work you may have.”

Albert Pincemaille, Product Designer at Opentable

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“Chrissy is a very passionate and disciplined UX Designer who I managed at Intrepid Travel during her time here. She threw herself into research and design tasks and everything she delivered was of a consistently high standard. I would definitely recommend her dialled design sensibility to any employer.”

Julianne Powell, UX Manager, Intrepid Travel

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“It was a true pleasure to have Chrissy as part of the User Experience design team at Aesop. She is personable, warm, detail oriented and ambitious. To me, it makes complete sense why Chrissy is pursuing UX as a new career direction. Her endeavour to better understand both the art and science behind design is strongly evident.”

Emily Fisher, Senior UX Designer, Aesop

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