
Angi Ghimpeteanu
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Bucharest, Romania
Toptal member since April 11, 2022
With 20+ years of design experience, Angi helped many startups from all over the world take products off the ground. She solved problems in industries ranging from fintech to health, culture, and entertainment. The stages of a typical project involve market and user research, prototyping, visual design, and testing. She uses lean UX, cognitive psychology, and task-centered design to create easy-to-use digital products that solve business needs.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Product Designer
Sourcing International SI1010 GmbH
- Reviewed and redesigned a web app that tracks all the CRM data for a large beauty training company.
- Created deliverables like UX reports, usability testing reports, heuristic reviews, wireframe mock-ups, high-fidelity designs, clickable prototypes, and supervised implementation while making necessary adaptions.
- Used Agile practices and helped implementation and cross-disciplinary teams adhere to the design style guide.
- Created a usability report to ensure we offer the best possible user experience using remote testing.
- Made mockups for new features while ensuring we have a consistent user experience and reuse the same components.
- Managed a team of four designers to develop new functionalities for our MVP and complete sprints to achieve the go-to-market.
UX Designer
Freelance
- Developed new products for startups and balanced user and business needs.
- Improved existing digital products with usability analysis, user testing, and redesign.
- Created simple experiences combining cognitive psychology and design thinking.
- Made complex software look simple with progressive disclosure and informative design.
- Created consistent visual styles to support the best user experience for digital products.
Brand and Web Designer
Shealy Lampp LLC
- Designed eCommerce UX for outdoor sporting goods, including category, product, and shopping flows.
- Created brand and interface direction tailored to camping, hunting, and outdoor enthusiast audiences.
- Structured product pages to improve clarity, product discovery, and purchase confidence.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to align brand, UX, and implementation requirements.
Product Designer
XPLR Incorporated
- Redesigned a social travel app focused on shared trips, group planning, discovery, and traveler matching.
- Clarified complex product flows for trips, groups, activities, profiles, maps, onboarding, and feed logic.
- Used competitor research to improve trust, safety, filtering, group controls, and future AI-powered recommendations.
- Created clearer mobile UX flows, microcopy direction, and product structure to support connection, compatibility, and shared travel planning.
User Experience Designer
Vetano Inc
- Reviewed the app user flows for the talent and recruiter, and created a comprehensive audit report with actionable to-dos.
- Updated the functionality by editing the UI for usability and clarity.
- Improved the message for a better user experience, reducing confusion in a few critical entry points.
UX/UI Designer
Red Marrow Branding Services
- Redesigned a fintech real estate investment app across native mobile, desktop web, and mobile web.
- Improved navigation, onboarding, property pages, wallet flows, alerts, and trust signals for a regulated investment product.
- Created developer-ready XD mockups, high-fidelity screens, email templates, and handoff support.
Product Designer
T47 Group LLC
- Clarified complex product requirements and translated them into structured UX documentation, user flows, and wireframes.
- Created information architecture and interaction flows for data-heavy, transactional, and multi-role platforms.
- Worked closely with product owners to document decisions, reduce ambiguity, and support implementation.
Design Manager
Imedia
- Designed digital products in the entertainment, lifestyle, and automotive sectors.
- Managed a team of creatives to deliver products on time and solve any emergencies that could arise.
- Conducted usability studies to improve digital products.
- Created visual systems and improved the usability of digital products.
- Implemented enterprise design systems on various products.
- Improved the usability of current products and created new ones to adhere to industry standards.
Freelance Web Designer
Freelance
- Designed apps and websites for products in various industries.
- Created visual systems for digital products and supervised the implementation according to guidelines.
- Designed responsive layouts for web apps and mobile apps.
- Improved usability of digital products with usability analysis, research of best practices, and web standards.
Web Designer
Imedia
- Designed digital products in different industries.
- Built a brand identity system including colors, styles, typography, and illustration.
- Supervised the implementation of visual systems across web platforms.
- Designed responsive interfaces for many digital products.
Education
Diploma in Graphic Design
University of Art and Design - Cluj-Napoca, Romania
High School Diploma in Art and Design
Tonitza Fine Arts High School - Bucharest, Romania
Certifications
Agile Methods for UX Design
Interaction Design Foundation
AI for Designers
Interaction Design Foundation
Agile Concepts Training
Itonic Agility Advisors
Digital Skills: User Experience
Accenture
Skills
Tools
Adobe Experience Design (XD), Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe, Miro, AI Tools
Languages
SAS, Visual Design Language
Platforms
Web, Android, iOS, Mobile, Figma
Industry Expertise
Events, Consumer Products, Investments
Other
Graphic Design, User Experience (UX), UX Prototyping, Visual Design, UX Research, UX Design, App UX, App UI, Usability Analysis, Usability Testing, Web UX, User Testing, Illustration, Branding, Social, Landing Pages, Marketplaces, Websites, eCommerce UX, eCommerce UI, Web App UX, Web App UI, Higher Education, Dashboard Design, eCommerce, Apps, User Interface (UI), Web Applications, Social Networks, Onboarding, User Onboarding, Community, Web UI, User Flows, Wireframing, UX Branding, Usability, Web App Design, Design, Web Design, Identity Design, Visual Identity, Responsive UI, Responsive Layout, Visual Art, Product Design, Prototyping, Rapid Prototyping, UI Prototyping, Enterprise Design, Enterprise Application Design, Mobile App Design, UI Design, Web Usability, Lean UX, Mobile App UI, User Validation, Digital Product Design, Adobe UX, Visualization Design, Web UX Design, Intuitive UX Design, Mobile Apps, Web UI Design, Applications, Web & Mobile Applications, Landing Page Design, Web Dashboards, Dashboards, Ticketing, Online Ticketing, Digital Tickets, Website Optimization, Data-informed Visual Design, Booking, Booking UX, Appointments, Appointment Booking, Beauty Products, Booking Apps, Booking Systems, Salons & Spas, Android App Design, Android UI Design, iOS App Design, iOS UI Design, iOS UX Design, Mobile UX, Mobile UI, Mobile Design, B2B, Pixel Perfect, Web Page Mockups, Startups, Edtech Design, Color Theory, Layout Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Typography, Mobile UX Design, Responsive Design, Social Media, User Research, SaaS Design, Data-heavy Design, Design Systems, User Personas, User Journey Maps, Information Architecture (IA), Research, Discovery Workshops, Software as a Service (SaaS), Layout, Mobile UI Design, Minimalism, UX Wireframes, UX Audits, User Journeys, SaaS, Component Libraries, Journey Mapping, User Stories, User Interviews, Agile UX, UX Writing, UX Wireflows, Web App Testing, UI Audits, Conversion Rate, Conversion, Responsive Web Apps, Logo Design, Brand Design, Logotype, B2C, Design Reviews, Stakeholder Engagement, UX Review, Collaborative Design, Website Conversion, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), User Conversion, App Design, Website Design, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Direct to Consumer (D2C), Click-through Rates (CTR), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Brand Guidelines, Marketing Collateral Development, Visual Brand Guidelines, User Workflows, Interaction Design (IxD), Cross-functional Team Collaboration, Customer Journey, Low-fidelity Prototypes, High-fidelity Prototypes, eCommerce Design, Product Strategy, Form Design, MVP simplification, Investor onboarding, KYC flow, Product Discovery, Native Mobile Apps, Trust & safety UX, Competitive Analysis, UX Deliverables, MVP Design, Ideation, Rapid Interactive Prototyping, Data Visualization, Near-field Communication (NFC), Wedding & Bridal, LiveStream, Influencer Marketing, Strategy, UX Strategy, Tracking, Remote User Testing, Finance, Fintech, Medtech, Lean Startups, Blockchain, Style Guides, Gamification, Agile, Design Strategy, System Design, Brand Strategy, Design Workshops, Design Leadership, Team Management, Service Design, Design Validation, Marketplace Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Ethics, Healthcare Services, Educational Platform Design, Scrum, Social Media Apps, Checkout, Funnel Optimization, Accessibility, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Workshop Facilitation, AI-powered Product Design, A/B Testing, SaaS platform design, Workflow Automation & System Integration, Operational Efficiency Improvement, Certification management, Multi-role dashboards, Data-heavy UX, Admin tools, Analytics dashboard, Enterprise UX, B2B2C product design, Live commerce UX, Conversational UX, Onboarding UX, AI onboarding, Video streaming UX, Mobile Game UX, Generative AI avatars, AI moderation, Conversational AI, Social travel UX, AI ready product design, Copywriting, Crypto, Responsive UX Design, UX Process, Video Livestreaming, Investing, Agile Sprints, Personal Finance, DevOps, Engineering, Cryptocurrency, Sports Websites, Fintech Design, Travel Design, Travel Security, Social APIs, AI redy product design, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Online Shopping, Shopping
Experience
- UI Design - 20 years
- App UI - 10 years
- Mobile App Design - 8 years
- UX Prototyping - 7 years
- User Experience (UX) - 7 years
- Product Design - 7 years
- UX Design - 7 years
- Enterprise Design - 5 years
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