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Hire DanielDaniel Winer
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Location
Tarifa, Spain
Toptal Member Since
November 13, 2018
Dan has over a decade of experience helping a variety of companies—from tiny startups to publicly listed multinationals—design, build, and optimize their digital products. He's a multidisciplinary designer, competent in a range of fields from illustration, branding, and UX design through to implementing scalable design systems and growing and managing design teams.
Work Experience
Head of Design
2019 - PRESENT
Smile.io
- Helped small-to-medium-sized online stores improve customer retention with one of the most popular loyalty programs available.
- Shaped design operations to ensure cross-functional collaboration.
- Worked in Figma to turn complex problems into simple solutions.
Technologies: Usertesting.com, Figma
Head of Design
2018 - 2019
Watching That
- Designed an industry-leading responsive web app for video analytics.
- Created a scalable design system to allow this small startup to grow at pace.
- Turned designs into responsive React components.
- Led user testing and design exploration sessions.
- Created marketing material including designing and coding landing pages.
Technologies: Sass, React, Affinity Designer, Sketch
Head of Design
2013 - 2018
WegoWise
- Led the creative direction for marketing and product design.
- Hired, managed, and mentored a small team of designers.
- Set up a living style guide to speed up product development.
- Collaborated with business development to explore early-stage product concepts.
- Established and promoted a "design-first" company culture with an emphasis on validating ideas by testing prototypes on real users.
- Implemented and maintained a scalable system for writing UI code.
Technologies: Git, JavaScript, HTML, Sass, Affinity Designer, InVision, Sketch
Lead Product Designer
2012 - 2013
Ideal Shopping Direct
- Managed and was responsible for the rebranding of the entire website including landing pages and web application.
- Provided illustrations and iconography.
- Developed front-end code and integrated it with AngularJS.
- Managed eCommerce product photo shoots.
Technologies: HTML, CSS, Adobe Photoshop
UX Consultant
2009 - 2012
GTECH
- Designed and coded the player portal area for various state lottery sites.
- Created the mobile app design for iOS.
- Conducted accessibility and usability audits.
- Built a reusable front-end framework and design system.
- Conducted client-feedback sessions.
Technologies: Wireframing, Adobe Photoshop
Head of Operations
2009 - 2012
Create Today
- Led a diverse, distributed team in building complex software with tight deadlines.
- Gained a thorough working knowledge of agile software development and project road mapping.
- Helped take the company all the way from concept through to a successful acquisition.
Technologies: Subversion (SVN), HTML, CSS, Adobe Photoshop, Confluence, Jira
Education
2007 - 2008
Diploma in Graphic Design, Usabillity, Interface Design, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL
Sessions College - Online
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