Christian Vasile

Designer

Denpasar, Denpasar City, Bali, Indonesia

Member since December 8, 2016

Christian leads design at Filo, the first-of-its-kind research repository. Previously, he helped Danish startup iPaper grow from 12 to 23 million monthly visitors, and was instrumental in saving British Gas mid-six figures in costs during their digital transformation project. He has also worked for KPMG UK, the London-based award-winning design agency Beyond, as well as with Google, Warner Brothers, Disney, and the UK Ministry of Justice.

Christian is now available for hire

Hire Christian

Portfolio

Digital Design

Filo
- SaaS
- Research
- Product Design
- Usability Testing
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- Visual Design
- WordPress
- Design Systems
British Gas
- Product Design
- Research
- Wireframing
- Usability Testing
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- Responsive Design
- Web App UX
- Analytics
- Visual Design
- Prototyping
Reality
- Real Estate
- Sketch
- Product Design
- UX Strategy
- Wireframing
- User Interviews
- UX Research
- User Flows
- Prototyping
- Product Strategy
- Visual Design
Google Pay
- Web Design
- UX Design
- Marketing
- Responsive Design
- Product Strategy
- Product Delivery
- Stakeholder Management
- Wireframing
- Sketching
- Agile UX
Moments
- Visual Design
- Social Media Apps
- Product Strategy
- Internal Apps
- Product Design
- Pitch Presentations
- User Flows
- Behavioral Design
- UX Design
- App Design
Waasla
- SaaS
- Product Design
- UX Research
- Visual Design
- Design Systems
- Information Architecture (IA)
- Interaction Design (IxD)

Employment

Lead Product Designer
2019 - PRESENT
Filo
- Led the design for a product that was the first of its kind and launched it in less than four months.
- Shaped the product strategy together with the other co-founders.
- Wireframed, tested, and designed the visual appearance for the product.
- Created a design system to ensure consistency and implementation speed.
- Prioritized the backlog together with the product owner.
Technologies: Figma, Sketch
Senior Product Designer
2018 - 2019
British Gas
- Saved the company mid-six figures in costs by helping move offline capabilities online and by improving the support experience.
- Designed new user journeys and ran hundreds of usability testing sessions in our in-house lab.
- Investigated opportunities and designed solutions for how the support experience could be improved. This included enhancing the current design, analyzing data, conducting usability testing, and stakeholder management.
- Prioritized the backlog with our product owner and helped her with the product strategy, as well as doing stakeholder management.
- Ran workshops together with my product team and third-party matrix team to understand the big picture of the problems we were solving.
Technologies: Sketch, Zeplin, InVision, Photoshop, Jira, GitHub, Omniture
Senior Product Designer
2017 - 2018
Beyond
- Worked end-to-end on digital products from early research and strategy all the way to interaction, visuals, and product road mapping.
- Led product teams, pitched new business, supported younger designers, and helped Beyond transition to a product design agency.
- Worked with a variety of clients including Warner Brothers, Google, Virgin, Facebook, Shutterstock, Disney, Just Eat, and Instagram.
Technologies: Sketch, InVision, Zeplin, Photoshop
Senior Experience Designer
2016 - 2017
KPMG UK
- Helped clients navigate digital transformations and created products for our own auditors. Clients included Toshiba, McLaren, HSBC, the UK Ministry of Justice, and Diageo.
- Worked, on a day-to-day basis, across the whole design process.
- Led teams and mentored junior designers as well as being involved in business development.
- Pitched to clients and KPMG Partners and worked on creating a long-term strategy to infuse a design culture in the company.
Technologies: Sketch, Photoshop, InVision, Zeplin
User Experience Designer
2014 - 2016
iPaper
- Played a central role in the redesign of the back-end system.
- Created a new website design.
- Improved several front-end features as well as helping create new products for the iPaper suite.
- Worked closely with the developers and the management team and contributed with my interaction design and user experience knowledge on everything from major features to micro-interactions.
- Helped in collaboration with the management to shift from a sales-driven focus to being design-driven, therefore putting design at the heart of the company culture.
- Ran usability testing sessions to understand the pain points of our customers, which was central to the success of the redesign.
Technologies: Photoshop, Sketch, InVision, UXPin, Jira, Google Analytics
Experience Design Consultant
2010 - 2014
StudioWeb
- Aimed to create products to solve business problems and, in the end, help the bottom line of my clients.
- Worked with companies from numerous industries including healthcare, fitness, security, and banking.
- Ran usability testing sessions on-demand for clients.
Technologies: Photoshop, HTML, CSS

Other Experience

Toptal Mentor
Christian is a mentor in the Toptal Global Mentor’s Program. This program is a partnership between Toptal and General Assembly to provide high quality mentorship for students from minority and low income backgrounds who are looking to begin their careers as professional designers. Christian shows commitment to diversity in tech by mentoring a General Assembly student every week for a year, covering everything from design tips and tricks to advice on making it in the industry.

Education

Bachelor's degree in eConcept Development
2010 - 2014
University College of Northern Denmark - Aalborg, Denmark

Experience

Visual Design9 years
Product Design9 years
Interaction Design (IxD)8 years
UX Research7 years
UX Strategy6 years
Usability Testing6 years
Workshops3 years
Design Sprints2 years

Christian Vasile

Location