Grace
Zimmel
She/Her
Hello there!
I am a designer specializing in UX/UI design. This path combines three of my favourite parts of design: problem solving, connecting with others, and technology. My main goal as a UX designer is to make people's lives even just a little bit better through the things I create. I take inspiration from the people and the environment around me, and I strive to design ethical, accessible, and creative solutions. I’m looking forward to exploring the future of design and continuing to create and learn.
When I’m not at my computer you can find me trying a new coffee shop, bouldering, or exploring festivals and events around the city.
I am a designer specializing in UX/UI design. This path combines three of my favourite parts of design: problem solving, connecting with others, and technology. My main goal as a UX designer is to make people's lives even just a little bit better through the things I create. I take inspiration from the people and the environment around me, and I strive to design ethical, accessible, and creative solutions. I’m looking forward to exploring the future of design and continuing to create and learn.
When I’m not at my computer you can find me trying a new coffee shop, bouldering, or exploring festivals and events around the city.
Monday or Tuesday
This is a book design for Monday or Tuesday, a collection of short stories by Virginia Woolf. This collection of stories is made to feel disorienting and distracting. It is Woolf's first attempt at her ‘stream of consciousness’ technique and makes the reader consider the mundane, daily life, and the passage of time. The book’s overall themes are contemplation, mystery, and disorientation.
Each chapter beginning features a stop-motion black and white portrait.
The project included the creation of a dustjacket as well as the layout inside the book.
The dustjacket.
The Griff Redesign: Making Waves Edition
This project is a redesign of the MacEwan student publication, the Griff. This redesign created a ‘Making Waves’ edition of the publication that showcases strong, optimistic, and opinionated voices of students through a ‘by students for students’ approach. The redesign utilizes a handmade zine/collage aesthetic and pairs it with active and changemaking articles like ‘Gendered Contraception’ and ‘A Fight For Equality’.
The publication cover, team page, and table of contents.
Feature article of the project: Gendered Contraception.
Three spreads from inside the magazine. This includes a letter from the editor, a one page article, a local businesses page, and an interview.
JUXTA: The Career Comparison Application
JUXTA is a career comparison web application. The project was created in an interdisciplinary class where designers were paired with a team of developers. This application allows users to view side by side comparisons of up to 4 careers. This comparison showcases insights like salaries, job requirements, projected vacancies, and more. JUXTA allows users to make informed decisions about their career and discover what is the right fit for them.
A collection of screens from JUXTA.
The UI Flow
Career overview and career comparison screens.
Screens for the Career Suggestion section of the site, as well as a sign-in page.
Breath & Being: Record Packaging
This project is a record packaging concept for the album ‘Breath & Being’ by Roya. The design hints to the viewers that the cracks and hardships in our lives make us who we are and helps create and shape our very own state of being. The album has an overall feeling of intimacy and connection that bonds the listener and the singer together.
The record packaging for Breath & Being.
Process work and ideation.
The Surrogate Digital Service is a digital form created by Justice Digital that allows lawyers and legal assistants to apply for a grant of probate. This project focuses on the implementation of 'helper content' service patterns to help users complete this form. This new service pattern is shown within the redesign of the form on the Surrogate Digital Service, but the service pattern and it's new components can be used across the GoA.
The redesign takes the complex nature of the form and provides context, helpful tips and reminders to the user for ease of use and to help them avoid rejection.
Here is a before and after of a section of one of the screens within the Surrogate Digital service.
The high-fidelity prototype of the Surrogate Digital form.
