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─ ASSIST Software

June 2022 - Present

Senior UX/UI Designer

Starting as a Senior UX/UI Designer, tackling different projects and industries, emphasising the delivery and ongoing refinement of products.

Key achievements

• Leading the design process, collaborating with engineering, QA, and other stakeholders to resolve design issues for projects of varying scopes and sizes.
• Facilitating the handoff to developers and offering continuous assistance during the production phase.
• Help build out plans, ideas, and resources to support design team growth.
• Guiding the development of a Design System using tokens, providing ongoing guidance for the team on system-level approaches, component implementation, UX principles, and adherence to accessibility standards.
• Assisting in the establishment and upkeep of a design team culture grounded in core values.
• Initiated mentorship of junior designers and crafted a learning plan with feasible outcomes.

─ Freshful by eMAG

Mar 2021 - April 2022

UX/UI Designer

Working as a UX/UI Designer on a greenfield project, responsible to deliver design solutions for an ambitious business that will be the first 100% online hypermarket in Romania.

Key achievements

• Responsible for the UX plan within a short timeframe and designing for multiple platforms.
• Leading the design process to identify and solve design problems through research, ideation, prototyping, user testing, and iteration.
• Developing a Figma design library of components and styles to ensure consistency between mobile and web platforms and establish a design language with strong emphasis on accesibility.
• Communicating design concepts and prototypes to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner in order to illustrate the envisioned UX design and/or product.
• Usability testing to validate hypotheses and uncover potential issues in order to improve the user experience and product functionality.
• Facilitating the handoff to developers and offering continuous assistance during the production phase.
• Analyzing data to identify patterns, trends, and processing it to gain insights into customer needs and preferences to create experiences that are tailored to the needs of the target audience.

─ Orange Money

Apr 2020 - Mar 2021

UX/UI Designer

Being part of the product team, one of my biggest responsibilities was to deliver a great onboarding experience for the new users of the mobile app. As a financial organization, the challenge of working at Orange Money was to solve design problems and requirements with many legal constraints and requests.

Key achievements

• Collaborating with the product team to create user-centred design solutions.
• Discovering user problems and validating design solutions through usability testing.
• Developing a Figma design library of components and styles to guarantee consistency between mobile screens and the web platform.
• Optimizing the existing interfaces for the mobile app and website from a visual standpoint to improve accessibility.
• Creating and conveying design artefacts to stakeholders in order to more effectively communicate ideas, demonstrate the concept, and highlight its potential.
• Facilitating the handoff to developers and offering continuous assistance during the production phase.

─ Roweb

Aug 2017 - Apr 2020

UX/UI Designer

By entering the UX field as a UX/UI Designer at Roweb, I gained a deeper understanding of what it takes to produce a quality product. Focusing on user needs and utilizing a design process enabled me to improve customer satisfaction, enhance the usability and effectiveness of the finished products, and reduce costs and development time.

Key achievements

• Identified opportunities to improve user experience, and implemented creative solutions to solve UX problems.
• Worked with stakeholders to ensure that solutions met their needs and the needs of their users.
• Creating designs that are intuitive, modern, beautiful, user-friendly, and aesthetically pleasing while also being functional.
• Effectively communicate design ideas and specifications to developers so that they can accurately implement designs.

─ Roweb

Aug 2015 - Apr 2017

UI Designer

Having the opportunity to work at Roweb as a UI Designer, working on a variety of projects in different industries, helped me achieve different skills like collaboration, technology understanding, and critical thinking. Responsible for visual design delivery and refinement on different projects, continuously improving design and usability, while maintaining a high-quality standard.

Key achievements

• Creating intuitive, modern, beautiful, and user-friendly designs that are functional and aesthetically pleasing.
• Optimizing existing user interface designs to ensure the highest level of usability and efficiency.
• Effectively communicate design ideas and specifications to developers so that they can accurately implement designs.

─ Freelancer

Jun 2010 - Jan 2019

UI Designer/Frontend developer

Freelancing as a self-taught designer, I have taken on a variety of projects from different sizes and industries, both internal and internationally. I have started to learn web development, with an emphasis on the basics of frontend, as well as using Wordpress as a CMS. I have been able to provide a full package of services that range from branding and stationery design to web implementation.

Key achievements

• Communicating with clients to understand their business goals and objectives in order to plan and implement new designs.
• Optimizing existing user interface designs to ensure the highest level of usability and efficiency.
• Getting a better vision and understanding of the technology.