Experience
BackWorking with U+ Venture was an exciting, enriching experience. Here, I had the privilege to work with diverse group of great individuals from all over the world and clients from North America, Europe and UAE. Thanks to the niche focus U+ has on digital innovation, I continued to hone my skills in solving design problems for fresh, new projects that were built from the ground up. My notable work included designing an admin system with live vehicle tracking and building a tailored design system for U+ design team. Outside of Senior Designer responsibilities, I also helped to form a road map for a client's IT department after a month-long research period, which resulted in a successful pitch to the key stakeholders.
At U+, we tailored the team structure to meet the project's and client's needs, which meant sometimes working in a small, agile team structure to large, scrum teams. As a Senior UX/UI Designer, I had to report directly to the client on key design initiatives and their progress. I also helped our Head of Design with mentoring junior designers and researchers, and organizing internal workshops.
My notable achievements include creation of design system for our design team and winning Porsche Design Cup with our on-demand car care solution for Kimoby.
My key responsibilities:
- UX/UI Design
- Communicating with the key stakeholders both internal end on the client side
- Contributing to company-wide design processes
- Creating design system for the internal design team
- Providing supporting design artifacts like user flows and journey maps, prototypes
- Coaching junior designers and growing positive team culture with our Head of Design
I worked with the founders on a daily basis since the early stages of SmartGift Inc. as the UX/UI Designer. Responsibilities included leading the product design efforts with wireframes, prototypes, usability testing, quantitative research (Google Analytics) and also onboarding retail brands. During my time, I co-invented SmartGift's patented user flow.
When I joined the SmartGift team in 2017, I did so as the young company's sole designer. This enabled me to experiment with designs and iterate to solve business challenges. My background in full-stack development helped me create easy-to-implement designs. After onboarding a few small clients, SmartGift won its first enterprise retailer, TUMI. I worked with their team of designers and managers to create a digital gifting solution.
As the product expanded and the team grew, my responsibilities at SmartGift evolved. SmartGift's enterprise partners expanded and averaged over 2 million new users a year. Partners include: Under Armour, 1-800-Flowers.com, Estée Lauder companies, TUMI, Pandora, and more. The company hired another designer and my responsibilities shifted toward gathering data insights and flow optimization. I used Google Analytics for quantitative data analysis and Tag Manager to measure KPIs.
Thanks to the fast-paced New York startup environment, I learned how to make decisions with business objectives in mind. The byproduct of this was creating a successful product strategy and a scalable approach to design.
Tome publishes beautiful, online publications for students, faculty, and authors. My role was to use my familiarity with WordPress to create a custom admin panel. While my position was full-stack developer, I worked with other team members to design custom modules and features.
I enriched WordPress default, WYSIWYG editor to create medium.com like inline editor. It helped students write in scholarly formats (MLA, APA, Chicago style, etc) easier. For the professors, providing feedback on students' work was all in one place.
- Full-stack development (PHP, HTML5/CSS3, JS)
- Wordpress development
- UX/UI design
From a young age, I had experience with front-end coding (HTML/CSS, JS) and programming in PHP (Laravel). Later I decided to work for web agencies as a front-end developer.
I worked on small to mid-size companies' websites at a web agency based in Pilsen, Czech Republic. Then, in Prague, I worked for an agency creating websites for companies, events, and promotional landing pages.
