# Rosanina (Nina) Estrella > Senior UX Designer at Riot Games Location: Australia, Australia Profile: https://flows.cv/rosanina Hi friends 👋 I'm a UX/UI Product Designer with over 10 years experience in UX/UI, Digital Design and Information Design. Currently, I design UX for Riot Games R&D, VALORANT and 2XKO Console and PC. Creating inclusive, accessible experiences is my passion, and empowering people to change the world is my mission. In everything I do, I put people at the forefront. I'm ambitious, driven, and thrive in challenging environments. My relationship building skills are empathy-driven, and relationship-focused. Whenever I work with others, I strive to create supportive, trusting, and high-energy environments and bring everyone along on the journey. While I have strong practical multi-disciplinary skills in both UX, UI, digital design, presentation design and data visualization skills, I enjoy getting head deep into design strategy and strategic delivery. Managing ambition with feasibility while balancing a big picture vision with the finer details is key to both short and long-term success for me. In my spare time I love bouldering and playing video games. ✨ MENTORING I have been mentoring intern, graduate and junior designers for more than 7 years. As a young designer who was fortunate to receive valuable mentors, I love to give back to the design community and take on a few mentees every year. I primarily mentor students from the Victoria University Masters of UX program and Summer of Tech, but am open to all entry level designers or those transitioning into UX. As a mentor I like to: • Provide feedback on design porftolios and CVs and work with new designers to get job ready • Support while going thought the job hunting process • Mock interview practice • Design career path and advice • Transitioning into UX/UI design/UX Research • Public speaking, presentations and building confidence as a designer. I currently have no long-term mentoring capacity at the moment. ✨ HACKATHONS I fell in love with participating in hackathons, design sprints and game jams while at university and it's become a big part of who I am as a designer! I have participated in over 40+ events and started Hackathons New Zealand in 2019 to encourage more people to participate. I even take the photography at some of them! ## Work Experience ### Senior UX Designer @ Riot Games Jan 2023 – Present | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Currently working at Riot Games R&D • Previously designing Social Features, Player Behaviour and Moderation and Progression features for VALORANT and 2XKO console and PC. Highlights: • Helped launch VALORANT on console (June 14th, 2024) • Helped launch 2XKO Closed Beta/Early Access (September/October 2024), Console (January 2026) ### Senior UX/UI Designer @ Ministry of Education of New Zealand Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand ### UX/UI Designer @ Ministry of Education of New Zealand Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand I lead and design UX/UI and research for digital experience projects for New Zealand's education sector (teachers, students, school staff, caregivers, families, and internal staff). This includes discovery, user engagement research, ideation, wireframing, information architecture, metadata, taxonomies, information design and content design, visual design and delivery. Ensuring the UX process is undertaken on all projects. Responsibilities: • Conducting user research, usability site reviews, competitor analysis to gain an understanding of the problems, solutions and how might these be approached. • Creating personas, interaction, experience, journey and empathy maps to gain a better understanding of the users, customers and target audiences. • Restructuring Information Architecture (IA) through Information Design and Data Visualisation • Crafting design documents and presentations • Creating interactive prototypes to communicate designs to project team, developers and project sponsors • Running confluence, information architecture and user experience workshops with executive assistants and senior staff • Presenting solutions and designs to C-suite executives • Mentored UX and IT Interns, bringing them confidence and experience on UX projects at Ministry of Education. ### Co-Founder & Event Photographer @ Hackathons New Zealand Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 Hackathons New Zealand looks to support and bring visability New Zealand hackathons, creative & innovation sprints, Startup Weekends and game jams. We aim to bring more visibility to upcoming hackathons and look to bring together a community of hackers (participants from all sorts of backgrounds), organisers and organisations. As part of Hackathons New Zealand, I've also provided to capture photography for some of the events. ### Information Design Intern @ Walt Disney Imagineering Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Los Angeles Area • UX / UI design enhancement of three internal digital analytics and data web tools • Creation and design of internal Keynote / Powerpoint presentations for Walt Disney Parks & Resorts for Senior executives (including c-suite) under the Menu Planning and Development team • Designed internal Walt Disney Imagineering’s graphics posters ### Product Designer @ Melon Health Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand Designed user experiences and user interfaces for self management platforms for users with chronic conditions. Worked on concept ideation, design exploration iteration, wireframing, user interface design, interviews, user testing and created visual graphic designs for the three web and mobile platforms. ### UX & Design Intern @ Touchcast NZ Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand Clemenger BBDO Touchcast – Tackle a multiple projects with a focus on user experience and digital design for a range of local companies and government agencies. • Assisting in user research, current state analysis, preforming user tests, wireframes, analysing insights among other user experience responsibilities • Creating and designing graphics for social media • Animation for graphic banners ### Research Assistant @ Victoria University of Wellington Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand Researched, designed and developed an interactive mobile application through Android Studio to help enhance a pre-school child’s emotional intelligence through enhance engaging stories. For this research, the mobile app was aimed at pre-school children in China. In addition to gamification mechanics, the app incorporates different media (such as visuals, audio, and video) to encourage user interaction. Throughout the app, the user is tested with a multi-choice quiz questions to assure that the user understands the content. ### Business Analyst & Front End Development Intern @ Melon Health Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand During my internship, I worked for Melon Health through the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington to develop Code Blue, a free app that provides immediate support to young people in distress. My responsibilities included: • Worked with 2 other interns to develop onoarding screens and main UI interface using React Native. • Developed project documentation and briefs, including requirements analysis, risk management, change management, project objectives, scope, constraings and limitations, gantt charts and issue management documents. ### Lighting Designer @ Young & Hungry Arts Trust Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand I took on the position of Lighting Designer for the stage performance "My Parents Children" for the Young and Hungry Arts Festival. Working with the cast and crew, I was responsible for: • Designing the light plot / outline to match given script and programming cues on the light board. • Installing and rigging lights within BATS theatre. • Managing and controlling light set up for all thirteen shows. ## Education ### Master of Design Innovation in UX Design Victoria University of Wellington ### Bachelor of Design Innovation in Double Major in Media Design (UX/UI/ Interaction Design + Game Design) and Information Systems Victoria University of Wellington ### Digital Film Summer Programme New York Film Academy ### Samuel Marsden Collegiate School (Karori) ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rosaninaestrella --- Source: https://flows.cv/rosanina JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rosanina/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31