Dragan Simonovic, Designer in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dragan is available for hire
Hire Dragan

Dragan Simonovic

Verified Expert  in Design

Designer

Location
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Toptal Member Since
November 14, 2016

As a senior UX designer, Dragan has a keen interest in helping businesses become more customer-centric by creating intuitive, immersive and inspiring digital experiences that meet measurable outcomes, along with practical UX mentoring and guidance.

User Experience (UX)User Interface (UI)PrototypingWireframingInformation Architecture (IA)User ResearchiOSSketchiPhoneSaaSUser FlowsResponsive UIInteractive PrototypesData VisualizationAdobe Photoshop

Portfolio

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

2015 - PRESENT
HappyFunCorp
  • Created designs and front-ran the development of design-based prototypes in collaboration with the product owner, UX designers, and others.
  • Implemented and maintained a multi-website and multi-platform environment; focused primarily on the front-end.
  • Consulted with stakeholders regarding usability issues and questions.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), Sass, Haml, InVision, Sketch

Senior User Experience Designer

2015 - PRESENT
Reciprocity, Inc.
  • Led UX and visual design for a government, risk management, and compliance (GRC) software startup.
  • Collaborated with key stakeholders regarding product planning and execution.
  • Gathered requirements to determine user needs, define MVP and product features, build interactive UXPin prototypes for demonstration, design adaptive layouts to maintain a consistent product-wide user experience, and deliver UX documents such as user flows, wireframes, and specifications.
Technologies: Balsamiq, InVision, UXPin, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch

Senior User Experience Designer

2012 - 2014
AV Studio Interactive Agency
  • Led UX and design teams that created hand-crafted user experiences for business-to-customer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) clients in the tourism and retail industries.
  • Proposed and implemented effective solutions upon consulting with stakeholders and worked with back-end developers to produce the solutions.
Technologies: UXPin, InVision, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch

Design Team Lead

2010 - 2012
First Beat Media
  • Led a nine-member design team that oversaw a premiere online startup dating service; also mentored four junior designers.
  • Increased collaboration between design, development, and business leadership teams by implementing formal reviews and establishing best practices for documentation and specification.
  • Conducted product strategy and user research that focused on end-user needs.
  • Partnered with design and development teams to work through early-stage product design.
Technologies: UXPin, InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch
2002 - 2006

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Product & Visual Communication Design

Università Iuav di Venezia - Italy

Collaboration That Works

How to Work with Toptal

Toptal matches you directly with global industry experts from our network in hours—not weeks or months.

1

Share your needs

Discuss your requirements and refine your scope in a call with a Toptal domain expert.
2

Choose your talent

Get a short list of expertly matched talent within 24 hours to review, interview, and choose from.
3

Start your risk-free talent trial

Work with your chosen talent on a trial basis for up to two weeks. Pay only if you decide to hire them.

Top talent is in high demand.

Start hiring