Georgiy, a Product Designer from Prague, the ❤️ of Europe.
Currently transforming hospitality sphere at Mews. Co-author of 97 UX Things by O'Reilly. Figma nerd and Design Ops enthusiast.
Summary
In my work I enjoy approaching challenges, overcoming obstacles and bringing people together. I advocate design in organisations, promote cross-disciplinary collaboration and help design teams be more efficient.
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Experience
Senior Product designer
Mews
Prague, Czech Republic
Feb 2022 - present
I joined the Mews Operations team to take care of the Finance tools of the toolbox Mews is offering to its customers. I work closely with the product team to improve and innovate in the area, making property managers and accountants more efficient in their daily tasks. At the same time, I am a member of the DesignOPS team at Mews, taking care of tooling and work processes, creating best practices and guidelines, and making sure my design and product colleagues are set for success.
Senior Product designer
Citrix
Prague, Czech Republic
Oct 2019 - Jan 2022
At Citrix my main goal was to ensure Citrix Workspace administrators are efficient and successful in their jobs. Apart from design of product features, I was responsible for IA of the given part of the product, as well as scrum team design support. I was also heavily involved in Design Operations for the 60+ person design team. I helped build efficient processes for design and delivery, contributed to the design system, and coached my teammates on design tools, and accessibility and localisation best practices.
UX designer, Agile Release Train UX lead
CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company (Broadcom), Mainframe division
Prague, Czech Republic
Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
As a UX designer at Broadcom, I was primarily taking care of CA Vantage, working closely with a scrum team, located in Prague. My main responsibilities included design of product features, UX and product research, scrum team design support etc. I also partially supported another CA product - Web Viewer, where I helped to design a new version of the web interface. As an Agile Release Train (ART) UX lead, I was making sure that teams from my ART have proper support from the Mainframe UX organisation.
Consultant
humbleteam
Prague, Czech Republic
Nov 2018 - Feb 2022
At humbleteam I’ve been consulting and leading various projects, mostly startups from the fintech sphere. In each of the projects I managed a team of UX and visual designers, at the same time consulting high-level UX design, overseeing design delivery and following implementation guidance.
UX designer, Project Manager
White Noise Team
Aug 2017 - Nov 2018
White Noise Team is an indie gamedev studio, working on its first big title Twin Soul. Being a core team member, I was responsible for a wide range of things, starting with in-game UX design and branding, and up to project management.
UX designer
SCIA
Brno, Czech Republic
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
As a UX Designer at SCIA I was taking care of SCIA Engineer, a specialised software used for civil engineering. Apart from interaction design, I was also conducting individual user research activities, initiated a customer interaction program and helped to shape UX strategy. Being an in-house UX advocate, I promoted user experience across the company and gave a number of UX trainings and lectures for development teams.
Graphic User Interface Designer
Pilot design studio
Brno, Czech Republic
Dec 2016 – Mar 2017
As a designer in Pilot studio I was working with major universities and companies of Czech Republic, creating various designs for web and print.
Graphic User Interface Designer
Adbros design agency
Brno, Czech Republic
May 2015 - Nov 2016
At Adbros I had a chance to work on web and advertisement projects for such brands as Philip Morris, Konica, Captain Morgan, Ingenico, and many others. Moreover, I helped to design the agency's own product - a software for management of a dental clinic.
Freelance graphic designer
Jul 2014 – Dec 2016
While freelancing I’ve had a chance to work on a number of products from various industries.
Freelance team manager
Nov 2013 – Jul 2014
Between 2013 and 2014 I’ve managed a small team of visual designers.
Certifications
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
IBM
User Experience Strategy
The Team W, Inc.
Certified SAFe® 4 Product Owner/Product Manager
Scaled Agile Inc.
Publications
97 Things Every UX Practitioner Should Know
Contributing author
Education
Masaryk University
2013-2015
Cultural Sociology, Master of Arts
Zaporizhzhya National Technical University
2008-2012
World Economics and Relationship, Bachelor