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Budapest, Hu

Budapest, Hungary

Advised, consulted and worked in team-based setups through ff.next and independently in freelance engagements for a wide range of organizations.+ Led the creation of a comprehensive cross-platform design system, coordinating regular syncs and feedback sessions with the client's Head of Design and internal design team.+ Managed 2 designers, both of them progressed into seniors.+ Pioneered a leveling and performance evaluation system that was successfully implemented, contributing significantly to the company's operational framework.

Budapest, Hungary

Held lectures and mentored young designers. My teaching focused on the ever-changing landscape of mobile platform patterns.

Budapest, Hungary

Shaped zooming presentation and video tools for over 100 million monthly active users, helping them to connect and communicate more meaningfully with their audiences. I primarily concentrated on developing a cross-product asset library, the zooming presentation editor and Prezi Video. + Led the design for one of Prezi’s flagship products, the presentation editor. Ideated and solved for complex spatial problems around zooming and conversational presenting.+ Partnered with cross-functional teams of product managers, engineers, data analysts, user researchers, copywriters and more to evolve the world's largest library of reusable assets across three products.+ Implemented design strategies that improved the ease of navigation and accessibility of video players, enhancing user engagement.+ Collaborated with wide range of disciplines, created design concepts, wireframes and interactive prototypes to refine Prezi Video view pages and improve metrics such as bounce rate, average session duration and time spent.

Budapest, Hungary

Co-led, planned and managed the UI course where I facilitated countless meetings and in-house events.

Budapest, Hungary

Held lectures and mentored young designers. My teaching focused on the indispensable topics of design ethics, mobile interactions and UI design.

Budapest, Hungary

Proudly helped our business to become one of the largest travel brands with over 100 million monthly active users. I had a particular focus on leading design initiatives to provide intuitive first-time user experiences (FTUX) on iOS and Android.+ Led the design of signup and login experiences in the apps introducing a simplified flow that included signing in with Apple (SIWA) and many more features causing a major boost to new user sign-up rate and marketing reachability.+ Shipped a completely new interactive onboarding experience with our cross-functional team, causing a significant uplift in product activation and transactions amongst new users.+ Developed a semi-autonomous solution for designing and localizing our App Store visuals in 32 languages to support our massive rebranding efforts, saving countless hours of work for the team.+ Teamed up with a fellow researcher to devise a dynamic visual system for clustering traveller types and predicting changes in travel preferences.+ Conducted extensive user research and analysis to deeply understand user needs. Made sure our designs resonates with traveler needs and use evidence based design relying on qualitative and quantitative data.

London, United Kingdom

Joined the world's most iconic music discovery platform at an exciting time and designed for over 300 million monthly active users. My efforts were mainly around the core recognition experience on iOS, Android and watchOS. Shazam was acquired by Apple in 2018.+ Led the redesign of Shazam's core music recognition experience on iOS and Android, exceeding business expectations with a large increase in overall user engagement and retention, among other metrics.+ Ran the revamp of Shazam for watchOS that successfully met Apple’s standards for its brand new operating system while improving its accessibility and ease of use.+ Pioneered the creation and further development of Shazam's iOS and Android UI kits as well as the foundation of a design system.+ Stepped into a leadership role by mentoring and guiding interns through the nuances of design processes.+ Collaborated with designers, product managers and engineers to design and experiment with immersive AR experiences before it was cool.

London, United Kingdom

Partnered with product strategists, engineers and data analysts to enhance the user experience of an award-winning fintech solution improving the financial wellbeing of employees. We grew from 40 to 120 employees with the company under the name Neyber. Neyber was acquired by Salary Finance in 2020.

Budapest, Hungary

Responsible for all-things-design in a team that successfully developed and expanded an audiovisual messaging platform, scaling it to 3 million users. Facebook chose us to be tier 1 partner for the Messenger relaunch at the F8 Developer Conference.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Business Informatics

Studied database systems, business intelligence, data analysis and web development among others.

Digital Product Design

Learned the fundamentals of user testing, journey mapping, product and interaction design.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Mechatronic Engineer

Studied mechanical engineering, robotic systems and software development among others.