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Senior Designer
Tara is a Senior Designer based in the Auckland office. She has been with Shift for over six years working in a variety of roles from design to studio management. She is passionate about user-centred design, storytelling and photography.
Tara has over 11 years experience in the design industry working in New Zealand, America and Japan. She led the 2001 redesign of Tourism New Zealand’s multi award-winning website newzealand.com and has been a major contributor to its evolution ever since. Her work for the prestigious Cranbrook Education Community, creating computer interactive and video exhibits for their renowned natural history museum, is now recognised as a landmark in exhibit design.
Tara graduated from Wanganui Polytechnic with a Bachelor of Computer Graphic Design Honours (with High Distinction for Academic Achievement) and her work has been featured in various international design journals such as PRINT, I.D. and Communication Arts.
Expert Services
- Content Development
- Content Management Systems and Solutions
- Continual Site Improvement
- Digital Branding
- Information Architecture
- Rich Media Design
- Service Level Agreements
- Site Review
- Web Application Design and Development
- Web Strategy
- Website Design
Core Expertise
- Concept development
- Visual design
- Web development and authoring
- Image production
- Interaction design
- Multimedia and animation