Position: Head of design UX/UI
Category: Design
English level: basic
Years of experience: 11

1. Personal qualities:
- English A1
- Mindset
- Maturity
- Proadtivity
- Result oriented
- Reliability
- Responsibility & ownership

2. Personal efficiency:
- Time management
- Prioritization
- Estimation
- Stress management
- Continous learning

3. Interpersonal efficiency:
- Project Roles (Scrum)
- Meetings (Scrum)
- Work on a project with designer as teamplayer
- Work on a project with PO, PM, BA, dev., QA
- Communication skills
- Conflict management
- Building relationship
- Articulating design decisions


Basic

1. Visual
- Visual style (Typography, colors, elevatoins)
- Grids & Breakpoints
- Visual hierarchy
- Gestalt principles
- UI Kit
- Atomic Design
- Design systems

2. UX
- Usability
- Mental models
- Cognitive biases
- Usability heuristics
- Cognitive walkthrough
- Accessibility

3. Process
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Lean UX
- Design process
- Design workshops facilitation
- Design sprints
- Pair design
- Service design


Hard skills

1. Planning
- Kick off prep
- Kick off facilitation, Stakeholders inrterview
- Discovery planning
- Managing design debt
- UX documentation (Reviews and reports)
- UX strategy and design roadmap
- Bussiness model canvas
- Value proposition model
- CrustDev

2. Research
- Domain expert interview
- Design brief
- User interview
- Surveys
- Atoethnography
- Diary study
- Focus groups
- Competitors analysis
- UX analytics
- Metrics

3. Analysis
- Personas / Roles
- Empathy map
- CJM
- Problem framing / Scope
- User story
- User story map
- Jobs story & JTBD

4. Ideation
- Brainstorming techniques
- Mood boards
- Information architecture
- Cards sorting
- Scenarious, Task flows
- User flow diagram
- User case diagram
- Use cases
- Service blueprint
- BPMN

5. Prototyping
- Sketching & Wireframing
- Prototyping
- Responsive design
- IOS design
- Android design
- Desktop design
- Content strategy
- Taxonomy
- UX copywriting
- Animation
- Data visualization

6. Validation
- Hypothesis validation
- A/B/N/ testing
- Usability testing
- Guerilla testing
- Usability testing reports


Senior+ skills
- Mentoring
- Design team management
- Leading designers on a project
- Technical inteviews
- Technical assessment
- Design critique
- Design Ops
I am originally from Ukraine, I live in Kharkov. I work nationally/internationally for brands and institutions, often in the field of UI/UX,.Applications are the most striking way to express UX . Whether it's graphic design, UI design, art direction, photography, pattern design, editorial or digital design, shaping a unique authentic visual expression is what I love to do.