Catalin S.

Catalin S.

UI/UX Designer

Iasi, Romania
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About Me

Catalin is a creative UI/UX Designer with excellent aesthetic judgement - defining product experiences across different channels on projects. He produces work that raises the bar and takes a user experience first approach to deliver clean and robust solutions. He seeks to develop wireframes, design components, specifications, style guides and prototype responsive designs on projects.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
UI/UX Designer
2021 - Present (3 years)
Remote
  • Create and design web-ready digital content to support development initiatives or projects.

  • Evangelize UI/UX direction and adhere to project guidelines in executing solutions according to business needs.

  • Collaborate with the design team to ensure designs and deliverables are completed efficiently and on time

Arezzo Sky
Arezzo Sky
Product Designer
2021 - Present (3 years)
Iasi, Romania
  • Worked on design materials and other artefacts that enhanced the dev process on the Arezzo project.

  • Prioritized design opportunities, identified constraints and worked on design recommendations.

  • Evangelized and utilized the latest design thinking principles, processes, and best practices on solutions.

Socyal
Socyal
Product Designer
2021 - Present (3 years)
Iasi, Romania
  • Conceptualize and design intuitive digital product experiences that simplify functionalities on the Socyal PaaS.

  • Created site maps, user flows, wireframes and interaction-based prototypes for solutions.

  • Liaise with developers on implementation to deliver desired UXs - evangelizing user-centred designs and forward-thinking experiences.

D&H Value
D&H Value
UI/UX Designer
2020 - 2021 (1 year)
Iasi, Romania
  • Redesigned and delivered new solutions on four different digital products - aligning them to DH&V's brands.

  • Worked on two new mobile apps on the project.

  • Designed graphic elements for solutions - gathering user requirements and building all navigation components.

Zentahub
Zentahub
UI/UX Designer
2019 - 2020 (1 year)
Iasi, Romania
  • Worked on user flows, sketches, wireframes, user interface design and prototypes for Zentahub.

  • Liaised with the dev team to design mobile apps, dashboards, web platforms and websites on the project.

  • Analyzed design systems on the project and recommended solutions that align user needs with technical capabilities.

XWiki
XWiki
UI/UX Designer
2017 - 2019 (2 years)
Iasi, Romania
  • Developed and integrated high-fidelity design solutions on custom XWiki projects.

  • Conceptualized and implemented digital and print designs for the marketing and HR teams.

  • Contributed new design thinking approaches to XWiki's product development and marketing strategies.

Freelance
Freelance
UI/UX Designer
2015 - Present (9 years)
Iasi, Romania
  • Produce high-quality graphic designs, presentation websites and landing pages for clients.

  • Develop and deliver scalable design frameworks and maintain clean and simple interactions on solutions for clients.

  • Evangelize UI development best practices and the latest product design standards across projects.

Portfolio

UI/UX Designer - XWiki website
UI/UX Designer - XWiki website

The former website failed to clearly establish the business field, while the sales team constantly received requests to better explain the benefits of the support package provided by the company. I worked on this project for 17 months and had the chance to collaborate in an iterative process together with the marketing team. I started by using the diagram application to create wireframes, and after agreeing on the structure, I designed the pages. The front-end development conducted was on top of the open-source wiki, for which I used Bootstrap 3, HTML, LESS, and JavaScript.

UI/UX Designer - Fitness App - FIT
UI/UX Designer - Fitness App - FIT

The mobile app started with the willingness to train with well-known personal trainers from Romania, 24/7, and based on your training to have a diet plan to follow. It was developed for iOS and Android integrating unitary design for both systems. I conducted a competitive analysis, defined user personas/customer profiles, then moved forward to sketches for screens. I started working on the design system, coming up with three-color pallets based on the persona. The system was further developed following the guidelines of the Apple human interface.

UI/UX Designer - Dashboard - MP
UI/UX Designer - Dashboard - MP

The project explored the vision of a local company in Iasi. I designed a dashboard illustrating the manager's perspective, following the required functionalities. I profiled the average customer and potential user and, based on the features, came up with sketches for the mobile and web versions of the dashboard. Created the mobile UI and Web UI using Figma.

Education

User Experience Design Fundamentals
User Experience Design Fundamentals
Romania Interaction Lab
2018 - 2018
JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Certification
JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Certification
freeCodeCamp
2018 - 2018
Legacy Front End Certification
Legacy Front End Certification
freeCodeCamp
2016 - 2016
Bachelor's Degree in Applied Mathematics
Bachelor's Degree in Applied Mathematics
Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași
2001 - 2005 (4 years)