Andrew Gargay
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Kyiv, Ukraine
Toptal member since November 21, 2018
Andrew is a lead product designer specializing in directing UX/UI designs, prototyping, Sass, and graphic works of any complexity. He started his career in design in 2011 and has had the opportunity to work with large corporations—including heading a team that helped to create smart design systems such as a site builder. He's also worked with mobile apps quite a bit and built style libraries and guidelines for marketing departments.
Work Experience
Creative Director | Founder
The Glyph Studio
- Created a range of smart design systems from simple to extremely complex.
- Built up the UX skeleton, UI style; also created all of the UI libraries, guidelines, and components.
- Developed mobile applications for native operating systems.
- Сreated a unique brand style: logo, business card, and brand book.
- Worked on websites of varying complexity and developed animations.
- Rendered the 4D objects as design elements for websites if it's a part of the design concept.
Lead Product Designer
Wix.com
- Designed about ten website templates during the first few months on the template team. It was a good start followed by a few more interesting and complex projects that I took part in.
- Worked in the marketing department designing landing pages, emails, and social media ads.
- Supervised the company brand redesign process as part of the branding team. Together we compiled a set of guidelines for other designers and departments including Marketing. It enabled us to stick to the unified company style making it look consistent through all of the channels used.
- Worked in the UX team to jointly redesign the main company product—a website builder.
- Created the UI library and design guidelines.
- Worked on ADI, a smart website builder that analyzes user preferences and needs to make a unique beautiful website design on its own.
- Created ADI’s component library and system design.
- Worked on the mobile application, One App.
- Created the UI component libraries for both Android and iOS for One App.
- Renewed the older app's design.
- Set up guidelines for other designers to follow.
Graphic Designer
Winteg Art Studio
- Worked on advertising products specifically styling for photography.
- Successfully and consistently met tight deadlines.
- Interacted and worked in a team on projects.
- Worked on unique ideas and concepts for websites.
- Created the branding for products and the identity.
- Renovated and improved the existing designs for products.
Education
Master's Degree in Graphic Design
Computer Academy "Step" - Ukraine
Skills
Tools
InVision, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Git, Principle, Photoshop Design, Adobe Lightroom, Wix, Interface Builder, Cinema 4D, Adobe After Effects
Languages
HTML5, CSS4, HTML, JavaScript
Platforms
Android, iOS, Figma
Industry Expertise
Travel & Leisure
Other
Web Design, Mobile Design, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Prototyping, Illustration, Product Design, CSS3 Animation, Mobile UI, Mobile UX, Photography, Blog Design, Branding, Web Illustration, Brand Guidelines, UIP, App UX, Mobile App Design, Mobile Apps, 3D, Dairy Industry, Calendars, Blogs, Conference Speaking, Websites, Meetups, Landing Page Design, Print, Templates, eCommerce, SaaS Design, AI Design, Template Design, Logo Design, Principal, Three.js
Experience
- Illustration - 8 years
- User Experience (UX) - 8 years
- User Interface (UI) - 8 years
- Product Design - 7 years
- CSS4 - 4 years
- Mobile Design - 4 years
- Prototyping - 4 years
- HTML5 - 4 years
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