Catalin R.

Catalin R.

UI/UX Designer

Romania
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About Me

Innovative and enterprising UI/UX Designer with 8 years of experience and proven skills in prototyping, wireframing, Adobe Suite, Figma, and responsive, mobile-first design. Catalin has worked with several major design and marketing agencies for the past 8 years, delivering projects successfully for clients. He seeks to deliver UI/UX excellence with an eye for detail and a passion for turning client requirements into finished products.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
UI/UX Designer
2020 - Present (4 years)
Remote
  • Create and design web-ready digital content to support development initiatives or marketing projects.

  • Direct creative concepts and adhere to project guidelines to execute campaigns according to business needs.

  • Collaborate with the creative team to ensure designs and deliverables are being completed efficiently and on-time.

Glize
Glize
UI/UX Lead Designer
2015 - 2020 (5 years)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Managed to turn software packages into easy-to-use products for inhouse and outside clients.

  • Developed UI mockups and prototypes that illustrate the way products or features function and look. Employed Agile methodology for developing web-interfaces for products.

  • Worked on creating several design tools and usability guidelines to advance in the internal UX processes.

Pionix
Pionix
UI/UX Lead Designer
2013 - 2020 (7 years)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Closely collaborated with product managers and developers to evaulate and gather user requirements for projects.

  • Illustrated design ideas using storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps. Designed graphic user interface and elements such as Dashboards, Statistics, and Multipurpose platform pages with diffrent functionalities.

  • Acted as a visual designer in launching templates, landing pages, and warm welcomes for the inhouse build software suite. Created several design tools and usability guidelines to advance in the internal UX processes.

Holosfind Software
Holosfind Software
Interactive Art Director
2012 - 2013 (1 year)
Remote
  • Developed the brand concepts, corporate positioning, layout web and corporate ID, web add campaigns from marketing briefs, image consultancy and positioning for projects.

  • Reviewed business and client objectives, outlining the goals of the project and then creating design documentation and prototype procedures.

  • Assigned art content creation tasks to the graphic design staff, ensuring compliance with UX standards.

DancoVision
DancoVision
UI/UX Ethics
2007 - 2020 (13 years)
Romania
  • Involved in creating the brand concepts, corporate positioning, layout web and corporate ID, web add campaigns from marketing briefs, image consultancy and positioning.

  • Created both functional and appealing features and products that addressed clients’ needs and helped grow the customer base.

  • Applied UI/UX ethics in products and conducted layout adjustments based on user feedback.

Portfolio

UI/UX Designer - Muff Digital
UI/UX Designer - Muff Digital

Muff Digital is an Advertising and Media Buying agency specialized in online traffic acquisition and product consulting for search, display, and social platforms. It is a platform where advertisers and publishers configure campaigns for editorial and digital products - adserver statistics realtime platform working with big data and multiple roles. My role in this project was creating the brand(logo, stationery, and guidelines) to prototyping and designing the front end website and back-end platform from scratch.

UI/UX Designer - Raluz
UI/UX Designer - Raluz

Raluz is a social media digital platform where users can discuss topics and give advice to each other in most various topics. It is a simple and easy to use messenger app to exchange messages, pictures, and videos. Raluz is focussing on skills, knowledge, or helpful information people can share. Raluz helps to find online experts or on the go for topics you are interested in. My role involved creating the branding for the app and guidelines, as well as app prototyping, website design, the back-end of the app. I developed the concept and with the help of developers and marketers, I completed the design from scratch.

UI/UX Designer - Serus Renault
UI/UX Designer - Serus Renault

The project was an automotive multi-site for a big auto dealer. My role here involved the auditing of the old existing website and to come up, based on metrics and segmentation (marketing research team), with a new and converting design and a whole new User Experience for the new customers. I developed the project from a Mobile-First perspective and managed to build user interactions with different sections of the site in an optimum way.

Education

MA, Human Resources Management
MA, Human Resources Management
University of Bucharest
2007 - 2009 (2 years)
B.A., Journalism and Philosophy
B.A., Journalism and Philosophy
Spiru Haret University
2001 - 2005 (4 years)