Issue 001 · Calgary AB
UX Portfolio · 2025
AaronNicor
Junior UX/UI Designer
& Researcher
& Researcher
Open to work
Research-led. Detail-obsessed. Built with the kind of care that makes products feel inevitable.
— Aaron
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Aaron Nicor
Into architecture, mood lighting, and rubberhose illustration.
UX Research
Figma
Prototyping
Visual Design
How the work gets made
32 people
answered the survey before we drew a single screen. 91% of them named the same pain point.
On My Way · research
3 weeks
from brief to a top-ten finish against 70+ teams. 13 businesses put their interest in writing.
Sayfe · shipping
Nobody asked
for this one. I use Discord daily, the DM list has always been a mess, so I interviewed six people and rebuilt it.
Discord DM · self-initiated
Selected work
Mockup
01.
🏆 Top 10
EIA 2024
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.
Read the sprint →
Mockup
02.
5-Person Team
3 Months
3 Months
Group Scheduling · React App
On My Way — without the chaos.
Dual-tracked: UX case study and functional React app. Solving the friction of coordinating group plans.
Read the process →
Mockup
03.
Self-Initiated
Team of 4
Team of 4
Messaging Redesign · Desktop
Discord DM — Filtering the noise.
Unaffiliated redesign of Discord's direct messaging system — tackling notification overwhelm for 250 million users.
Read the redesign →
Side projects
Get in touch
Currently open to junior UX roles
If any of this is the kind of thinking you need, say hello.
aaronnicor7@gmail.com