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Copenhagen, Dk

Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

In my current role as a design manager, I am responsible for influencing the strategy and vision of our product teams, aligning with the company's goals and objectives. Also, I am identifying skills gaps in my team and helping them with mentoring, addressing blockers, prioritizing team well-being, understanding product suite contributions, enhancing processes and collaboration, overseeing team hiring, and fostering alignment with the design team’s strategy. Previously I was involved in multiple projects that were centered around future visions of our products, such as the company’s mobile app portfolio renewal strategy, or our in-app integration marketplace vision.

Budapest, Hungary

Wuff app is a content-specific community platform and pet care service provider with a vision to make dog parenting easier. Our family dog got lost and that was the terrible event that inspired the baseline concept. Despite all the efforts and attempts, our poor doggo never found her way back home, and I began to think why there isn't a 21st-century technology solution that might assist in such situations. After hearing about what happened to our dog, a few friends joined me and began brainstorming ways to assist dog parents in the event that their furry friend goes missing. We discovered several further problems in the pet-lover community and we are committed to helping them to tackle those with our digital service. We successfully released an MVP version of the app in Hungary for both iOS and Android recently.I was responsible for the broad concept of the app and laid down the design groundwork including the brand, the design system, and the layout and UX of the app. I am also busy building a multidisciplinary team around the project.

I helped the Berlitz EMEA team to increase the conversion on the Kids and Teens Language Camp website. This site was one of the main pillars of the German branch's revenue while having a very outdated design. As an independent contractor, I helped the team improve the user experience. The project involved qualitative and quantitative research, by conducting stakeholder and user interviews and evaluating usage data and session recordings.Based on the results I created a design proposal that was validated via moderated user interviews. The final design was adjusted to the 3rd party booking engine and got implemented.

Budapest

Our cross-functional team was responsible to create both the desktop and mobile products for Odigeo's travel meta-search engine, Liligo. Aside from everyday product maintenance, we put a lot of effort into creating a vision for our future ecosystem in a very competitive market, with rivals like Kayak and Skyscanner. In France, the word "Liligo" is commonly used as a verb when referring to planning the next air travel, and our objective was to develop a product that would live up to this reputationMy primary focus was to establish and lead a design team that was capable of delivering a product with exceptional UX and UI, even for the most complex features. Our daily tasks included a great deal of research and both qualitative and quantitative testing. We collaborated closely with the data and SEO teams to provide the best experience for our users.One of our biggest initiatives was to begin re-building our design system and be able to improve the outdated look and feel of our products. Another important project for us involved enhancing both our mobile web and native mobile app products to align the user experience of the two different streams.Our product team initiated a series of workshops to envision and subsequently begin implementing the future version of our most vital product - the desktop website. This platform was responsible for generating over 60% of the search volume and 70%+ of the revenue, making this a crucial initiative for us.

Budapest

Budapest

Finastra Labs was in charge of delivering high-fidelity concepts of future banking solutions that could later become our white label fintech products. We were able to experiment with cutting-edge technology at the time which were not even available for the wider audience, such as Google Glass, early Wearables, VR, and so on, in addition to developing functional mobile apps and online products. Our primary goal was was to develop concepts that could help individuals gain a deeper understanding of their finances and educate and encourage them to take a more responsible approach towards managing their financial affairs. The major challenge for Labs was that we never met the end user of a released product but we were encouraged to dream something big and think beyond the traditional financial practices.As a designer in the multi-disciplinary team, I was involved in product development from the beginning and I was responsible for the UX and layout of our product visions. My work included conducting research, wireframing, usability testing, workshop facilitating and delivering development-ready layouts for our engineering team.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Graphic Design

Activities and Societies: Member of student union (2011-2012), Head of communicationI graduated as a Graphic Designer and the program gave.

Service Design Course

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication And Media Studies, 5

Activities and Societies: GT Times - Cover Design, Editorial Design, 2009As a Student of BME, I learned communication and specialized.

Design And Technology

Design & Technology