Vanessa Boothroyd
About Vanessa Boothroyd
Vanessa Boothroyd is a Senior User Experience Designer at Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited, with extensive experience in UX design and research.
Current Position: Senior User Experience Designer
Vanessa Boothroyd currently holds the position of Senior User Experience Designer at Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited. She has been with the company since 2020. In her role, she focuses on improving the overall look and feel of applications based on user research and client feedback. Vanessa applies her extensive expertise in user experience design to enhance the usability and learnability of systems and software.
Previous Experience at Privacy Analytics Inc.
Vanessa Boothroyd has a robust history at Privacy Analytics Inc., where she held multiple roles over a span of six years. From 2017 to 2020, she worked as a UX Designer in Ottawa, Ontario. Before that, she was the UX Lead from 2015 to 2017, and a UX Researcher, Usability Tester, and UX Designer from 2014 to 2015. In these roles, Vanessa was instrumental in creating requirements documentation and translating client needs into mockups and final products.
Role at Neo Insight Inc.
From 2012 to 2013, Vanessa Boothroyd was a User Experience Consultant at Neo Insight Inc., located in the Ottawa, Canada Area. During this time, she contributed to various projects aimed at understanding user behavior and improving user interaction with digital platforms.
Education: Master's Degree in Human Computer Interaction
Vanessa Boothroyd holds a Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction from Carleton University, which she completed between 2011 and 2013. This advanced education allowed her to specialize in applying psychological principles to enhance the usability and learnability of systems and software. She also gained experience as a Human Computer Interaction Practitioner, Student, and Research Assistant during her time at Carleton University.
Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
Vanessa Boothroyd earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Ottawa, where she studied from 2005 to 2010. Her education included a bilingual component, as she completed part of her studies in French, which contributed to her proficiency in both English and French.