Istvan Kovari Email & Phone Number

Australia

Responsible for design research, conceptualisation and validation of proposed solutions, establishing final designs leveraging or creating UI libraries. I work closely with developers, product managers, as well as stakeholders while continuously evolving products throughout the duration of the engagement. Constantly working towards not only delivering on time, but also the most suitable solution to solve problems within a well designed environment.

Melbourne, Australia

* Work on projects ranging a broad variety of industries and project scales, following corporate/brand guidelines where they apply.* Establish and analyse user and business needs in relation to designing and delivering effective, efficient, scalable, and pleasant user interfaces.* Deliver user flows, responsive low- to high-fidelity wireframes and mocks, design-systems/component-libraries optimised for agile delivery and product scalability.* Establish project design principles as needed to ensure continuity in design direction and overall user experience.* Devising and implementing optimisations based on various metrics and user input.* An Atomic-Design-lead approach to UI design with strong understanding of modular UI architecture.* Presenting designs and deliverables to clients/stakeholders.* Regular advanced use of Adobe XD, also experienced with Sketch and Photoshop.Beyond the design aspect, I'm also fully involved in developing, delivering and innovating the front-end framework of projects I work on:* Setting up scripted front-end workflows to output assets ready to be integrated into CMS or fully custom environments.* Authoring detailed, highly modular CSS (SCSS/LESS) and HTML using architecture founded atop Atomic Design, ITCSS and BEM principles.* Working within environments written an various languages and templating engines.* Evangelising and experimenting with ways of narrowing the design/development divide, and delivering more scalable and efficient products.

Melbourne Area, Australia

Working with stakeholders within the Ray White Group and the marketing department - occasionally requiring interstate travel - to identify and outline business objectives to then design and develop online solutions that meet the needs of both the organisation (including franchisees) and end-users.* Production and maintenance of around 20 digital products and sites for Ray White and its businesses, e.g. Loan Market.* All products are designed and built to be responsive, some tablet-only.* Compilation of project outlines and product requirements from meetings with head of digital marketing and stakeholders.* Production of sketches, low and high fidelity wireframes and prototypes to communicate ideas and test assumptions.* Providing heuristic and design advice/reviews to other parts of the company.* Transitioning of the brand's visual identity (VI) into the digital realm.* Working with external agencies - assisting in UX design and testing - overseeing product direction and consistency with brand VI.* Building and maintaining a consistent, branded responsive UI library.* Working with developers to guide product implementation according to requirements, user needs and business goals.* Building markup and styles for integration by developers.Tools and technologies most regularly used as part of my role: UXPin, Cacoo, Jira, Confluence, Mindmeister, HTML, CSS, LESS, Gulp, PHP, jQuery, browser dev tools for responsive development and testing.

Melbourne, Australia

* Front-end development, wireframing, UI concept design.* Build and maintenance of a large number of commercial/business, e-commerce sites and web applications.* Working with Joomla, Magento and in-house library and framework.* Developing and implementing UI components in HTML, CSS and Javascript.* Maintenance and contributing to library of front-end code and template framework.* Researching and implementing new front-end solutions.* Digital marketing: email template building, landing pages and some banner design.

Freelance web design and development work. Worked mostly on megapc.com.au (no longer active as a store), a full custom e-commerce system I have written from scratch, which was a winner of PC Authority's Best Online Retailer for 2006.

Planning, graphic design, build and maintenance of sites built on top of in-house developed CMS written in ColdFusion. Maintaining and creating CMS components in ColdFusion and PHP (e.g. image manager and basic CRM system). Creating and maintaining front-end framework.

Building, maintaining and later designing static sites using Dreamweaver and BBedit. Mostly large clients, Paul's Milk (breaka.com), Brisbane City Council, Queensland Premier's Department, Energex, etc.