David Udvardy
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Budapest, Hungary
Toptal member since March 13, 2019
An active design director, design manager, and product designer specializing in apps, David delivers exceptional product discovery and delivery projects. He utilizes ideation and rapid prototyping, and supports decision-makers with validation techniques resulting in high-fidelity designs covering the entire product design process. David has designed for well-known companies and won Google's Editors' Choice award for Skyscanner's search app.
Portfolio
Creating the Ultimate Browsing Experience on Web
Skyscanner App Store Previews
Work Experience
Director of Design
LogMeIn
- Led the design team responsible for LogMeIn's SaaS web and mobile applications. Ensured consistent quality, escalated usability issues, proposed solutions, convinced stakeholders to include it in the roadmap.
- Oversaw the design of LogMeIn's AI based customer service bot, working on both the end-user facing widgets and the content management interface.
- Introduced and led the design of a unified design system to improve the fragmented user experience across more than five different web apps.
- Introduced design critiques to improve design’s ability to support proposals with arguments. Improved collaboration to share learnings despite different domains and several locations (from Bangalore to Budapest and Boston).
- Helped the decision-making of executives by a thorough analysis of user experience issues and opportunities using qualitative and quantitative research and heuristics analysis.
Design Manager | Personalized Search Design Team Lead
Skyscanner
- Set the design vision for a Machine Learning based truly personalized search experience. My tools included design studio workshops, concept videos, interactive prototypes, printed posters, mood boards, and more.
- Coached designers on craftsmanship especially the web designers on transitioning to an app-first design approach.
- Understood what working with machine learning means for design—coaching team members to cope with the requirements.
- Introduced and facilitated several team ceremonies such as regular design critiques, design updates, domain-specific design reviews, and design discovery kickoffs.
Lead Designer
Skyscanner
- Designed Skyscanner's Android flight ticket search application which was later awarded Editors' Choice by Google.
- Redesigned the key navigation architecture of both the Android and the iOS application to promote destination discovery beyond simple ticket search.
- Conducted various growth experiments with Skyscanner's iOS application, including a system of App Store previews.
- Created several guidelines for the in-house team for both Android and iOS.
- Created several early discovery prototypes to better understand the product leadership's intentions and set the direction together. These interactive prototypes always ran on the device itself employing various techniques. The scope spanned from simple InVision screenflows to complex Framer prototypes using live data, all the way to concept videos done in After Effects to illustrate future visions several years ahead.
Senior Designer
Distinction
- Introduced crucial user research practices in the team.
- Designed a cocktail recipe website optimized for browsing rich visual content.
- Redesigned the blockbuster weather forecast application on the Windows Phone platform.
- Kicked-off the team's internal R&D lab.
Senior Product Designer
Prezi
- Redesigned the complete product website; Prezi is a presentation creator on a zoomable infinite canvas, depicting a 2.5D space.
- Reinvented standard editing tools for the specialized environment.
- Defined the interactions and UI for several productivity tools like grouping, transformations, scaling, typing, and more—leading to several US patents.
- Designed the first version of the iPad application, when iPad was introduced by Apple.
- Gained experience in discovery and validation interviews both online and in person.
- Conducted several customer visit tours in the US and Europe.
- Created the brand of Prezi's educational package and presence.
Skills
Tools
Framer X, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Principle, InVision, Marvel, Flinto, Flinto Prototyping, Framer Prototyping, Usertesting.com, Adobe After Effects, Git, GitLab, GitHub, Adobe Flash, Xcode, Android Studio, Adobe Illustrator, Zeplin
Languages
CSS, HTML, AS3, JavaScript, PHP, SQL
Platforms
Figma, iOS, Android, Web, MacOS, Windows Phone
Other
Product Design, UI Design, UX Design, Mobile UX Design, Mobile UX, Web App Design, Web App UI, Web App UX, Front-end Design, Story Mapping, Journey Mapping, User Journeys, User Journey Maps, Service Blueprints, Jobs to be Done (JTBD), Mobile UI, Web Design, Web UX, Web UX Design, Responsive UI, Responsive Design, Responsive Layout, Responsive UX Design, Responsive Web Apps, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Responsive Web Design (RWD), iPhone, iPhone X, Material UI, Material Design, Google Material Design, iOS App Design, Android App Design, Android Design Guidelines, Android Guides, iOS Guides, iOS Design Guidelines, iOS Design Trends, iOS UX Design, iOS UI Design, Android UI Design, Mobile Design, Mobile Web, Mobile Web Design, Web & Mobile Applications, Mobile First, Design Thinking, Design Systems, System Design, UI Components, Atomic Design, Design Libraries, UX Review, Expert Reviews, Heuristic Review, Critical Thinking, Design Patterns, UI Patterns, UI Pattern Library, UI Pattern Definition, Interaction Design (IxD), Responsive, HCD, Human-centered Design (HCD), Enterprise Design, Enterprise System Design, Web UI Design, Web UI, Desktop App Design, Mobile Apps, Mobile App Design, Mobile App UI, UserVoice, Usability Testing, Usability Heuristics, UX Process, UI Testing, Information Architecture (IA), Design Reviews, Facilitation, Workshop Facilitation, Motion Design, Motion & Animation Design, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, eCommerce UX, eCommerce Design, eCommerce UI, eCommerce Web Design, B2B, B2B2C, User Interviews, Customer Interviews, Google Apps, Atomic CSS, User Research, CRM Systems, CRM Design, SaaS, SaaS Design, Enterprise SaaS, React, Prototyping, Mobile App Testing, AI Design, Machine Learning, Writing & Editing, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), Front-end, Personas, Persona Design, B2B Sales Pipeline, Version Control, Version Control Systems, Software as a Service (SaaS), Adobe Flex, App UX, App UI, Stakeholder Management, Project Management, Analytics, Metrics, UI Guidelines, Award-winning, Conceptual Design, Product Discovery, Flowcharts, Data Visualization, Redesign, Icon Design, Icon Sets, Value Proposition, Sales Pipelines, Brand Guidelines, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Experience
- Product Design - 15 years
- Web App Design - 10 years
- Usability Testing - 10 years
- Mobile UX Design - 8 years
- Mobile App Design - 8 years
- Information Architecture (IA) - 5 years
- Sketch - 4 years
- Framer X - 4 years
Tools
- Framer X
- Sketch
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