Erik Drouhard

Erik Drouhard

MA

Visual UX Designer @ Nuance working on Mix

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Skills & Experience

  • Job Title

    Senior Visual UX Designer

244 Achievements

  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • PHP Getting Started
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • The Local Development Environment
  • Working By Yourself
  • Hello, GitHub!
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • Combine and Minify Assets
  • Optimize Assets
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Working with CSS and JS in WordPress Themes
  • Starting a WordPress Theme
  • More Advanced PHP for WordPress
  • PHP Basics for WordPress
  • Introduction to PHP for WordPress
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • AJAX and APIs
  • Improving your Gulp Workflow
  • Local WordPress Development
  • Compile Sass with Gulp
  • Gulp your JavaScript workflow!
  • Welcome to Gulp.js
  • Final Project: Create a Typographic Site
  • Deploying to a Device
  • Debugging Our App
  • Improving Our User Interface
  • Using a Data Model
  • Views and View Controllers
  • Getting Started with Xcode
  • Swift Optionals
  • Swift Parameters and Tuples
  • Swift Functions
  • Control Flow
  • Collections
  • Operators
  • Types
  • Variables and Constants
  • Getting Started with Advanced Sass
  • Setup a Bootstrap Theme
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • Finalizing the Project
  • Case Studies and Examples
  • The Brand Identity Design Process
  • Introduction to Brand Identity
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Soft Skills - Psychology
  • Start menu and App Icon
  • Sound Design
  • Animating and Saving Sprites
  • Designing Characters and a Scene
  • Introduction to Game Design
  • Moving Forward with UX
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Better SEO Through Tools
  • Better SEO Through Code
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Introduction to SEO
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Sharing a Website
  • Adding Pages to a Website
  • Tools UXers Use
  • How UXers Think
  • Build a Website With Bootstrap
  • Prototyping With Bootstrap
  • Introduction to Front-End Frameworks
  • Styling Web Pages and Navigation
  • What Do User Experience Designers Do?
  • What is User Experience (UX)?
  • Getting Started with Android
  • Customizing Colors and Fonts
  • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Creating a Simple Drawing Application
  • Creating a Password Confirmation Form
  • Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu
  • Creating a Simple Lightbox
  • Creating a Spoiler Revealer
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Getting Work Done
  • A Lifestyle Choice
  • Growing Your Business
  • Client Services
  • Sales and Pitching
  • Marketing and Promotion
  • Why Start a Business?
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Setting Your Course
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Float Layout
  • Display Modes
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • Working with a Developer
  • Designing our App
  • Wireframing, Interaction Design and Planning
  • ADS Writing and Preparation
  • Introduction to UI Design
  • Designing Email with CSS
  • Coding HTML Email
  • HTML Email Basics
  • Masks Basics
  • Layer Basics
  • Improving Usability
  • Mobile Usability
  • Website Usability
  • What is Usability?
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • Introduction to Design
  • Getting Started (iOS7)
  • Beyond the Basics
  • Advanced Objective-C
  • Foundation Framework
  • Introduction to Objective-C
  • Pointers and Memory
  • Functional Programming in C
  • Fundamentals of C
  • Careers in the Tech Industry
  • Self-Assessment
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Customizing Google Maps
  • The Job Search
  • Google Maps Integration
  • Web Typography
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • CSS Box Model
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Launching the Website
  • Styling Content
  • Creating a Website Structure
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • jQuery Plugins
  • Form Validation and Manipulation
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Website Basics
  • WordPress and Forms
  • Extending WordPress Template Functionality
  • Converting Static HTML into WordPress Templates
  • Preparing to Code WordPress Templates
  • WordPress Theme Functions
  • WordPress Theme Templates
  • Content Strategy with WordPress
  • Customizing WordPress
  • Configuring WordPress
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Introduction Variables
  • Principles
  • Color Theory
  • Aesthetic Foundations
  • Basics
  • Video
  • HTML5
  • Selectors
  • Typography
  • Web Fonts
  • Borders
  • CSS3
  • Gradients
  • Backgrounds
  • Transitions
  • Transforms
  • Animation
  • Multi-Column Layouts
  • Media Queries
  • Fundamentals
  • Responsive Web Design
  • Mobile
  • Basics
  • Introduction to Programming
  • Control Structures
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Functions
  • Ruby Basics
  • Workspace Basics
  • Newbie
  • Introduction
  • Text
  • Lists
  • List Challenge
  • Links
  • Objects
  • Tables
  • Tables Challenge
  • Forms
  • HTML Master
  • HTML
  • Introduction
  • Selectors
  • Selector Code Challenge
  • Data Types
  • Text
  • Text Code Challenge
  • Box Model
  • Page Layout
  • Printing
  • Framework Foundations
  • Mastery Challenge
  • CSS
  • Website Basics
  • Elements