Position: Head of Design, Design Lead, Product Designer, UX-UI Designer
Category: Design
English level: upper
Years of experience: 11

• 8 year work experience in advertising as a creative director, art-director, graphic designer and Illustrator
• 6 year run as a product designer, UI-UX designer
• Having golden awards on international festivals
• Bachelor's industrial design and artist school's diplomas
• Overall experience is over 16 years
ABOUT ME >

I'm a product designer with the overall experience of over 16 years. And starting my career as a Designer Generalist / Illustrator, I walked through the line of different roles, such as desktop publisher, graphic designer, motion and interaction designer, as well as UX-UI designer, art director, and even a creative director in an international advertising agency HAVAS Advertising Group.

I used to run my own design studio for a couple of years in two countries, Ukraine and Poland. And the last 7 years I worked as product designer on exciting projects.

PRODUCT DESIGN ESSENCE >

So, being a product designer means you are involved into many different projects at the same time. And these projects in turn, might have their own scope of tasks, that require different processes, such as Research, Studying on User Experience, Ideation, Prototyping, Visual and Interaction Design, Testing, Interviewing, Presentation, Implementation, Communication, Design Sprints and so on and so forth. In fact, there are lots of processes that help me to get my projects done and in time. 

One thing to remember: designer — is a team player. Thus, Communication and Collaboration are very valuable processes, since any project is basically a team game.

RESULTS OF EFFORTS >

I use numerous of different tools and practices.

For ex: Google Analytics is used for studying user experience on their interaction with website. Its data includes much information on user devices, screen resolution, type of OS, time spent on specific pages, behaviour scenarios, and more.

Hotjar service. Based on its recorded videos, I can track and understand the specific problems of the specific UIs, improve user interaction, get conversion rate, heatmaps and many other useful data.

On design and prototyping stage I prefer to use Usertesting.com That's a great tool in terms of setting up the target audience for the following testing. As well as getting feedback from them, when they comment loud on their thoughts and behaviour while interacting with UI. It is also, possible to conduct a real-time testing. With a specific group of users, record the session and then make deep a

AFTERWORD >

I manage and supervise the entire pull of work in design department, being as a resident of the business team and having closed-loop communication with the internal marketing staff.

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• Smart and adequate management
• Diverse and challenging tasks
• Friendly and professional staff
• Informal and creative vibe
• Ability to work remotely