Issue 001 · Calgary AB UX Portfolio · 2025
AaronNicor
Junior UX/UI Designer
& Researcher
Open to work
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Open to work
Aaron Nicor
Into architecture, mood lighting, and rubberhose illustration.
UX Research Figma Prototyping Visual Design
Research-led. Detail-obsessed. Built with the kind of care that makes products feel inevitable.
— Aaron
Selected work
01
01.
🏆 Top 10
EIA 2024
NFC · Allergy Communication App
Sayfe — Safe dining for every table.
Competition-winning mobile app redesigning how people with food allergies communicate their needs at restaurants.
UX Research Mobile NFC Competition Winner
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02
02.
React App
Social UX
Group Scheduling · React App
On My Way — Hangouts, without the chaos.
Dual-tracked: UX case study and functional React app. Solving the friction of coordinating group plans.
Product Design React Social UX
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03
03.
250M Users
Desktop
Messaging Redesign · Desktop
Discord DM — Filtering the noise.
Unaffiliated redesign of Discord's direct messaging system — tackling notification overwhelm for 250 million users.
UX Redesign Info Architecture Desktop
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Side projects
Beyond the brief ↗ Explore
The stuff I do
outside the work.
Photography, architecture, mood lighting, and rubberhose illustration. Creative work that feeds the design work.
Photography
Architecture & Space
Interior
Mood & Lighting
Illustration
Retro & Character