Danny Masalkovski
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Toptal member since December 20, 2019
Danny is a UI and motion designer, with love for all things digital. During his 12-year career, he's had the pleasure of working on consumer-facing digital experiences for some of Australia's largest banks (NAB and ANZ). In addition to animation and design, Danny also possesses development skills–which help him make informed design decisions and create his own apps.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Senior UI Designer
Potato
- Worked on a design system for one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
- Refreshed the UI and uplifted the UX of an existing platform used as a developer resource.
- Liaised with developers to see what was capable within the confines of the technology we had to build with.
Lead UI Designer
Splendid Unlimited
- Developed north star UI design concepts and prototypes for a variety of clients, including Barclaycard, EasyJet, and Reed.co.uk.
Senior Product Designer
Super User Studio
- Created a design system and animations for a new marketing analytics platform.
- Created MVP UI screens for the first version of the platform.
Senior Interaction Designer
Zone
- Responsible for creating a high-fidelity prototype for a high-profile sustainability benchmarking organization. The solution required heavy front-end development knowledge and was delivered as a progressive web app.
Senior Motion and UI Designer
Aviva
- Tasked with creating multiple explainer videos for Aviva's customer-facing website and social channels.
- Created a motion design style guide to be used internally within Aviva and external agencies.
Senior UI Lead
National Australia Bank
- Oversaw stakeholder management. Strategically created reusable components to use across the whole business, and have a holistic overview of how site content interlinked between other NAB platforms.
Senior Visual Designer
ANZ
- Created various online application forms for a selection of ANZ’s card and online savings products, while maintaining a consistent design language, and liaising daily with developers.
Senior Visual Designer
ANZ
- Designed features for ANZ’s main consumer banking app at the time–goMoney.
- Created concept UI designs for upcoming app features as well as future vision concepts.
- Liaised regularly with developers and provided support and handover documentation.
- Created a motion design framework to be implemented across all aspects of goMoney.
Senior Digital Designer
Tribal DDB Melbourne
- Created regular animated display advertising for Westpac.
- Animated a stadium screen banner to be played at a national soccer match for one of its sponsors (TAC).
- Streamlined the creative process for creating online advertising on behalf of Westpac–Australia’s first bank.
- Created display advertising for Porsche in standard and custom formats.
Senior Digital Designer
Leo Burnett Melbourne
- Focused on designing and developing custom digital advertising for iSelect’s Always Get It Right campaign.
Senior Digital Designer
Tribal DDB Melbourne
- Worked with Tribal on a contract basis using design and animation across a variety of web and experiential projects.
- Worked as the lead designer across a number of in-store digital experiences as part of the launch of Telstra’s multi-award winning Discovery Store in Sydney.
Designer
Igloo
- Created UI and motion designs for a variety of clients including Mazda, Cricket Australia, Cancer Council, and Quit Victoria. Motion work ranged from case studies to online explainer videos.
Designer
Asprey Creative
- Designed and developed web solutions internally and for a range of local businesses and FMCG clients.
Designer
Citrus
- Worked on clients such as Sportsgirl and VRC. Used my Photoshop and Flash animation skills to create EDMs, banner ads, and landing pages. Projects ranged from monthly website design refreshes, editing videos, and working on campaign designs.
Junior Designer
Citrus
- Worked on a wide range of campaigns for Sportsgirl, Borders, and Victoria Racing Club. Used Photoshop and Flash to create EDMs, banner ads, and landing pages.
Education
Honours Degree in Multimedia Design
Swinburne University of Technology - Melbourne, Australia
Skills
Tools
Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Principle Design, InVision, Zeplin Design, Figma, Adobe After Effects Design, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Creative Suite Design, Adobe Creative Suite Design, Flash, iOS Design, Cinema 4D
Languages
HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Platforms
Animation Design, MacOS
Industry Expertise
Healthcare App Design, Banking Consulting
Other
Lottie, UI Design, UI Design, Design Systems, Web Design, UX Design, Motion Graphics Design, Interaction Design (IxD), Microinteraction Design, Mobile App Design, App UI, iOS Design, Android Design, UI Design, Branding, Mobile Apps, Mobile UI Design, Mobile App Design, Fintech Development, UX Pattern Design, Agile Design, Prototyping, Animation Design, Interactive UI, Game Design, Illustration, Mobile App Design, Mobile Games, SpriteKit, Gaming, Experiential Design, UI Design, UI Design, Responsive Design, Web UI Design, UX Design, Web UI, iPad Design, Unity, Android Design, Flash
Experience
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