Education
Professional Diploma in UX Design
Accredited by Glasgow Caledonian University
2021 – 2022
Bachelor’s degree in Psychology
2006 – 2011
Gorlivka State Pedagogical Institute
of Foreign Languages, Ukraine
Work experience and highlights
Senior/Lead UX Designer
Tino Digital Agency
2018 – 2023
Working in Tino, I designed complex banking, fintech, and healthtech apps for startups and big companies from Canada, the US, and the EU.
Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure the best user experience by conducting UX research, ideating features and solutions, developing informational architecture, user flows, wireframes, and prototypes.
I also led small product teams by applying a user-centered design approach and helped stakeholders incorporate Design Thinking methodology to improve user experience and production quality.
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- Co-led a team of four designers on a complex and multi-streamlined health tech project, providing guidance and ensuring the quality of UX artifacts. By assisting the team with directions and ideas, communication and workflow were improved, resulting in high-quality outcomes and successful project delivery.
- Conceptualized and designed innovative fintech startups, leading to the successful launch of their MVPs and securing substantial investments.
- Transformed complex analogue workflows into simple, streamlined digital experiences by designing and integrating digital B2B solutions for a Swiss bank, resulting in a 90% automation rate, increased employee satisfaction rates, and improved overall efficiency.
- Designed the user experience for a B2C contact tracing app during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland, resulting in successful adoption by 3,600 companies.
Senior UX Designer
Clanq AG
2020 – 2021
A German fintech startup that provides parents with a powerful app to assist them in saving money for the future of their kids.
Having only a basic idea from the stakeholders, I worked from scratch, helped establish the fundamental structure of the entire app and came up with essential features based on deep insights from the UX research phase. I designed wireframes for each user flow and managed a small creative team to launch the MVP in nine months and successfully raise funding.
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- Analyzed user feedback and defined UX strategy, resulting in the establishment of the foundational structure and high-level UX concept of an entire fintech application.
- Designed and tested wireframes and prototypes, ensuring the final product aligned with user needs and preferences.
- Co-led a team of UI designers, applying an agile approach and User-Centered Design methodology to successfully launch the MVP on time, resulting in increased investments and positive user feedback and retention.
Product Designer
Nikitin Team Agency
2014 — 2018
I have designed websites, wireframes, and visual design concepts for diverse industries, including real estate, fintech, travel, and many others. By collaborating closely with stakeholders and developers, I have ensured great usability of the products, which has contributed to the successful launches of various startups.
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- Developed an information architecture and designed a medium-fidelity prototype for a complex money transfer web application, optimizing the workload of UI designers and developers, which led to the successful launch of a product with thousands of daily users.
- Executed end-to-end ideation and design for a complex social media fitness startup, creating wireframes, visual designs, and hi-fi prototypes while balancing business needs and technical limitations, resulting in the successful launch of an MVP.
- Designed a creative and user-friendly accommodation booking website for luxury travelers, which contributed to the platform’s successful launch and achieved high user retention rates.
Product Designer
Contractor Self-employee
2010-2014
Designed websites for hundreds of projects across various industries, collaborating closely with clients to ensure successful product launches and continued support for their web businesses
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