Cosmin Bizon
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Cosmin is an NN/g certified UX designer who has been designing UI/UX since 2007 for top clients like Vodafone, Deutsche Bank, and NATO. He's ambitious and self-motivated with a solid technical background, works with minimal supervision, makes unbiased design decisions through a user-centered process, and maintains quality deliverables while respecting deadlines. He specializes in fintech, complex enterprise apps, and design systems.
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Work Experience
Senior UI and UX Designer
Siemens
- Implemented the UI/UX design for cloud, web, mobile, AI, and ML-empowered applications. IEC 62366.
- Performed iterative and user-centered agile workflow, collaborating with cross-functional teams in the US, Europe, and India.
- Implemented interactive prototyping in Axure to validate design decisions and check for usability and accessibility issues.
UX Designer | Workflow Optimization
MGI Verified, Inc.
- Created and maintained a design system and style guide for mobile and desktop devices.
- Conducted data-driven quantitative and qualitative user research to anticipate user needs and validate usability while optimizing conversion.
- Collaborated in a cross-disciplinary team with several developers, project managers, and stakeholders.
UX Designer
Climate Vault, Inc.
- Created and maintained a design system and style guide for mobile and desktop devices.
- Conducted data-driven quantitative and qualitative user research to anticipate user needs and validate usability while optimizing conversion.
- Collaborated in a cross-disciplinary team with several developers, project managers, and stakeholders.
Product Designer for Stock and Trading Platform
Avatar Engines LLC
- Created a design system and UI/UX dashboard design for a highly complex AI and ML-powered trading platform, mobile, and desktop.
- Implemented highly complex interactive prototyping for user testing and design decision validation.
- Collaborated in a cross-disciplinary team with several developers, project managers, and stakeholders.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Vodafone Group
- Led data-driven design and conversion optimization based on session recording analysis, heatmaps, and analytics.
- Managed user research and user testing of InVision prototypes to validate design decisions and check for usability issues.
- Designed the UI/UX of the mobile app for the MyVodafone application and the eCommerce app (iOS and Android).
Senior UI/UX Designer
Aera
- Owned the atomic design system and the UI/UX process. I was in charge of the governance of the global UI/UX design (RO, US, and IN) with the product teams, development teams, and stakeholders, as well as the management of the UI/UX design teams.
- Designed the user and usability testing to validate interactive prototypes and improve user flow.
- Led workshops with users, cross-functional teams, and stakeholders to effectively identify and validate UX improvement opportunities.
Senior UX and UI Designer
Deutsche Bank
- Built a global design system from scratch with complex responsive UI component libraries in Sketch, WCAG AA 2.0 accessibility standards-compliant.
- Contributed to the UX and UI design, wireframing, and prototyping for a complex fintech global web platform with multiple user roles. Performed UX audit and user interviews to validate initial prototypes and dashboards with real users.
- Wrote detailed UX documentation and UI CSS specifications for a seamless UI developer handoff.
- Gathered requirements followed by rapid prototyping to identify UX improvement opportunities quickly.
- Integrated an iterative and user-centered workflow within an agile working environment, collaborating with cross-functional teams in the UK, DE, and IN.
Senior UX Designer
1&1 Internet Development AG
- Provided conceptual design to identify UX improvements that meet user and business goals quickly.
- Performed interactive prototyping in Axure to effectively communicate new features to stakeholders and cross-disciplinary teams in Germany.
- Worked on rapid prototyping in Balsamiq to help the team evaluate design decisions early on.
Lead UI/UX Designer
Teamnet International
- Led the UI/UX design team for large-scale government (military and medical) web and mobile applications, handling large amounts of data.
- Created stakeholder interviews, paper prototyping, wireframes, interactive prototypes with Axure, and user testing.
- Led a team of four UI/UX designers of varying levels, from senior to junior.
Lead UI/UX Designer
Madrivo Media LLC
- Led the UX design team and human-computer interaction for web and mobile applications.
- Art-directed websites and created corporate identities.
- Coordinated with a team of several web designers and developers.
- Managed US-based projects in the company's portfolio.
Web and Graphic Designer
BitDefender
- Created corporate websites, landing pages, DTP, and logo design.
- Contributed to ergonomic and user-friendly design for web and desktop applications.
- Designed 3D graphics and contributed to composition and animation for product visualizations.
Web and Graphic Designer
Ogilvy Interactive
- Contributed to web and graphic design for Petrom, IBM, Nestle, Cosmote, DHL, RBS, ING, LG, Brau Union, Eureko, Unilever, and Diageo.
- Designed websites, landing pages, blogs, and newsletters using HTML and CSS.
- Performed end-to-end digital advertising campaigns, brainstorming, ideation, and strategy.
Web Designer
Devour Media
- Designed website templates, visual identities, banners, headers, newsletters, icons, and Flash design.
- Implemented the front end in the cross-browser, ensuring valid W3C HTML and CSS code.
- Performed brainstorming and ideation activities for new CMS platform features based on user feedback.
Education
Master’s Degree in Economic Informatics - Computer Science
Academy of Economic Studies, Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics - Bucharest, Romania
Certifications
Google UX Design Specialization - Certification ID CKHRJKUF7QPQ
Coursera
NN/g UX Certificate, Specialized in UX Management, Credential ID 1030830
Nielsen Norman Group, Silicon Valley, California, US
Service Design Thinking, Statement of Completion
Vodafone (Onsite)
Social Psychology
Stanford University (Coursera)
HCI - Human Computer Interaction
Wesleyan University (Coursera)
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