A multi-disciplinary design leader with 9+ years of experience, focussing on the outcome of great experiences to drive impact. Specializing in zero-to-one digital products crafted with best practices from research and ideation to stakeholder collaborations to developed and launched design.
What is each item’s purpose? What does it affect? These are a few of the questions asked when I am creating a new design or re-evaluating an older piece. Form displays function and function advises form. Both aesthetics and functionality must live harmoniously in order to produce the optimal solution.
Most importantly, what story is wanting to be told? Designers are more than a pair of hands, we have messages and ideas to express and design is our outlet to convey them. Design's wholehearted purpose is connection - to ideas, to learning, to discovery, to one another. Design is for the community as much as it is for the individual.
Biography
An L.A. native, Jennifer Donohue has noted the influence and practice of design from a very young age. Starting with sketching with crayons and turning the ideas into reality with tinker toys, the transition from traditional tools to computers occurred at a young age. She began with QuarkXPress at age 7, putting shapes and text together while experimenting with color. From that point on, her curious mind was consistently looking for visual solutions to either her own design problems or ones encountered in magazines, advertisements, packaging, etc., and would design her own products with a full advertising campaign attached.
At Loyola Marymount University she was trained in print design and accelerated in the Graphic Design department. Here, she was greatly influenced by the University's mission of integrating social justice into every avenue of study. Her work displayed social issues such as freedom of speech and human rights through mixed media collages, three-dimensional typographic structures, and large-scale posters. Her senior design thesis was featured in her own curated gallery show titled "Dissonance" which included four other design students. This was the first Graphic Design show to exhibit at LMU'S Thomas P. Kelly Student Art Gallery.
Immediately graduating from University, Jennifer headed to Silicon Beach and was enamored by the fast-paced and ever-growing tech industry. Her professional experience includes design for web and mobile applications, UX design and strategy, branding and marketing, and front-end development. Her curiosity has now lead to her learning iOS development with Swift.
Her notebooks are not only filled with collaged imagery that combines photography, typography, and paint, but also UX notes in her very loved Moleskine. Outside of her career Jennifer is an avid concert and festival participant, trains in aerial arts, and spends as much time at the beach and in the mountains as possible.
Press
ZipRecruiter’s Jen Donohue Marino: Be a kind rockstar
Published by InVision’s Inside Design
Speaking
Mindful Design(ers)
ZipRecruiter Lunch & Learn Presentation on Ethical Tech, April 2019
Portfolio Review
Returning speaker at Loyola Marymount University Design Department, 2019 & 2020
Career Exploration Event
Presented by ZipRecruiter, la-tech.org, Bixelexchange, February 2020