Katerina Vellidi is a User Interface and User Experience Producer at Funcom at Funcom. She possess expertise in illustrator, user interface design, graphic design, illustration, flash and 23 more skills. She is proficient in Norwegian. Colleagues describe her as "Katerina is a versatile producer that helped us deliver on UI/UX and World Content pillars for Dune: Awakening. She is not afraid to challenge the status quo and always comes up with solutions when she does it. I would love to work with her again!" and "I worked with Katerina on The Secret World in a period where the gui was in trouble. We'd lost our gui Artist and the gui was seeing very little progress as a result. In addition, we had inherited a highly stylized but also highly impractical design aesthetic which had to be adhered to. We were fortunate enough to have Katerina step in and keep things moving while we were on the lookout for a Lead UI Designer. As a UI Designer, Katerina's responsibility was to present the complex states and interactions which arise during gameplay as clearly and effectively as possible, within the limitations of our tech and the design guidelines. She has many characteristics which made her well suited to this: • She creates designs which are both aesthetic and reusable - this makes it cheaper for her to produce variations, and also builds a shared visual language for what concepts relate to each other. • She is interested in and keen on understanding the underlying mechanics and gameplay rules which support the elements she is designing. This is extremely important in such a complex environment, since many of the concepts which need to be conveyed can be quite abstract. By thoroughly understanding them she can better relate them to existing designs and ultimately better inform the users about what is happening. MMO gameplay has many complex states which require subsecond decision making, so clarity is of extreme importance. • She is good with time estimates, works hard, and delivers under pressure and within time constraints. • She is technically savvy enough to get assets into the game. Being able to rapidly iterate on designs and actually see them in-game rather than in screenshots is extremely important when distinguishing between designs that actually work vs. designs that simply look cool. • Most importantly, she creates extremely appealing designs. In addition to her professional skills, she is an extremely positive and approachable person and a joy to work with. I would love to work with Katerina again!"