Thanos Papavasileiou
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Katerini, Pieria, Greece
Toptal member since March 1, 2018
Thanos is a passionate and established UI and UX designer and Grecian native who is currently based in London. For over the past eleven years, he's enjoyed working hard, solving problems, and helping great companies and teams succeed through collaboration and thoughtful designs. He's an experienced remote worker and he joined Toptal to work on great projects and work with other talented people.
Work Experience
Product Design Lead
Transifex
- Successfully led a team of designers in improving Transifex's user experience, resulting in increased user engagement and satisfaction score.
- Overhauled Transifex's onboarding process, resulting in a significant percentage increase in paid customers going through the free trial funnel.
- Improved the information architecture of the platform and designed easier ways to access and use translation memory.
- Established user interviews and usability testing as a standard practice for every mission.
- Contributed to making the design team more vocal and visible within the company by being the intersection of all the departments and thus making it easier to collaborate with everyone and gather critical information about our missions.
Product Designer
Perfect Channel
- Designed the online auction system for Christie's.
- Created the design for Manchester City Football Club's online auction website.
- Crafted the design for a travel eCommerce website for Hearst Publications.
- Designed a B2B platform for a European stock exchange.
- Performed UX research and design for Leaseplan.com and their B2B car auction marketplaces.
- Designed the concepts for the marketplace of DeBeers Diamonds.
- Designed a system for a Saas B2B marketplace platform.
- Crafted a freight-and-fleet management SaaS platform for Mitsui and WeatherNews International.
Head of Design
Incrediblue
- Designed a marketplace for boat owners, skippers, and for people who want to rent a boat.
- Redesigned this marketplace to be an all-inclusive beach holiday vendor.
- Created many landing page designs for our social media campaigns.
- Managed and was responsible for everything design related within the company—from presentations to landing pages to platform designs.
Visual Designer
CSSIgniter
- Designed various WordPress themes for different verticals.
Founder | Web Designer
Wireframe Plus
- Translated wireframes and sketches into high-fidelity mockups for web apps and e-commerce websites.
- Transformed hand-drawn sketches into high-fidelity wireframes.
- Designed more than 100 landing pages.
- Created social media and advertisement banner designs.
UX and UI Designer | Owner
Klou Design
- Offered freelance web design services to small and medium businesses.
- Designed for various clients, from startups to single individuals.
- Created many eCommerce website designs.
Skills
Tools
Marvel App, Sketch, Pencil & Paper, Adobe Photoshop, InVision, Zeplin, Marvel, Adobe Illustrator, FigJam, Hotjar
Platforms
Figma, WordPress Theme Design, iOS, Web, MacOS, WordPress, Dovetail
Industry Expertise
Travel & Leisure, Hotels & Lodging
Other
Product Design, Web App UX, Web App UI, Web Design, Remote Work, eCommerce, Multi-sided Marketplaces, Yacht Rentals, User-centered Design (UCD), Wireframing, Web App Design, Personas, Data-driven Design, Human-centered Design (HCD), Landing Page Design, Product Pages, UX Prototyping, Landing Pages, Online Auctions, Template Design, Web UI Design, Web UX Design, eCommerce UI, UI Design Standards & Best Practices, UX Design, Usability Testing, Prototyping, User Flows, SaaS Design, Interaction Design (IxD), UI Design, eCommerce Design, User Testing, Marketplace Design, eCommerce UX, Paper Prototyping, Empathy, Dashboards, User Experience (UX), UX Audits, Dashboard Design, User Interface (UI), UX Branding, Artificial Intelligence (AI), B2B, Booking UX, UI Style Guides, Blog Design, UI Templates, Creative Direction, Service Design, Information Architecture (IA), iOS App Design, iOS UX Design, iOS UI Design, Agriculture, Geolocation, Visualization Design, Mobile UX, Mobile App Design, Mobile UI, App UX, WordPress Design, Visual Design, Writing & Editing, User Interviews, UX Leadership
Experience
- UI Design - 14 years
- UX Audits - 12 years
- UX Design - 10 years
- Product Design - 10 years
- eCommerce UX - 10 years
- SaaS Design - 8 years
- Marketplace Design - 8 years
- Usability Testing - 6 years
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