Dragos-Valentin Bubu
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Bucharest, Romania
Toptal member since November 11, 2022
A product designer with a background in computer science, Dragos has worked as a multidisciplinary product designer at various creative agencies, startups, and Fortune 500 companies for a decade, including NATO. Most of his experience comes from designing many enterprise software and SaaS web applications. Dragos enjoys creating with intention and helping clients achieve their goals through digital strategy and design.
Experience
- Dashboard Design - 11 years
- User Experience (UX) - 11 years
- Visual Design - 10 years
- Web App Design - 10 years
- User Interface (UI) - 10 years
- Design Systems - 5 years
- Figma - 5 years
- Mobile App Design - 5 years
Portfolio
Work Experience
Product Designer
ElevenSpace
- Designed powerful interfaces for dashboard-based mobile and web apps by leveraging the advantages of design systems.
- Created documentation for design rules and components based on the design system created or maintained.
- Simplified complex user journeys and information overload based on cognitive psychology, design principles, and research, followed by usability testing to ensure end customers gain maximum value from experience.
- Created interactive prototypes to validate workflows, user journeys, and success metrics.
Lead UI/UX Designer
NATO
- Led an Agile-based UX team and took ownership of creating and maintaining a central design system.
- Delivered UI/UX interactive prototypes for an AI-driven human resource platform that helped NATO quickly filter candidates and build teams.
- Collaborated with product development teams on finding solutions in an agile manner, starting from brainstorming ideas, creating wireframes, building interactive prototypes, delivering visual resources, and supervising an implementation process.
UI/UX Designer
Lenovo
- Collaborated in an agile manner with a product development team to develop new features and cloud software as a service (SaaS) products.
- Created an internal design system for Lenovo's minimum viable product (MVP) initiatives.
- Presented walking tours to promote our services to stakeholders, teams, and organizations.
UI/UX Designer
Oracle
- Worked closely in an agile manner with product development teams on external-facing solutions and custom internal platforms, starting from brainstorming ideas, creating wireframes, building interactive prototypes, and delivering visual resources.
- Applied design thinking principles and techniques in the process of prototyping demos for strategic applications and business verticals or industries.
- Held design interviews, mentoring and preparing new team members to familiarize themselves with tools and processes and assume responsibilities when required.
UI/UX Designer
Magnistudio
- Clarified requirements with stakeholders and defined challenges, strategies, and goals.
- Developed prototypes to validate ideas and get more feedback.
- Delivered high-fidelity, cross-platform, responsive designs.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Politehnica University of Buchares - Bucharest, Romania
Certifications
Design System Certified
Awwwards
Building Better User Experiences with a Product Thinking Approach
Awwwards
Cisco Information Technology
Cisco
Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) C1 Level
University of Cambridge
Skills
Tools
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe CC, Marvel, Adobe Illustrator
Platforms
Figma, Shopify, iOS, Mobile, Web
Languages
HTML5, CSS3
Other
User Experience (UX), Human Interface Design, User Experience Design, Design Systems, Web App Design, Mobile App Design, Dashboard Design, User Interface (UI), Logo Design, Product Design, Mobile UI, Prototyping, UI Prototyping, UX Prototyping, Mobile UX, UI Design, UX Design, Web Design, Data Visualization, Heuristics, Audits, Agile UX, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Mobile Design, Stakeholder Management, eCommerce UX, B2C, eCommerce, A/B Testing, SaaS Design, Component Libraries, B2B, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Website Redesign, Interactive Prototypes, Visual Design, English, Information & Communications Technology (ICT), App Design, Travel, Booking, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, Dashboards, Mobile Apps, Web UI, Web Dashboards, Desktop Web Design, Web UX Design, Web App UX, Web UX, Mobile App UI, App UI, App UX, Apps, UX Wireframes, Rebranding, Design, Web UI Design, Data-driven Dashboards, Data-informed Visual Design, Analytical Dashboards, Educational Videos, Mentorship, Mentorship & Coaching, Branding, Social Media, Product Branding, Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Electric Vehicles, Electric, Car Dashboards, UX Strategy, Last Mile Logistics, Transportation & Logistics, Warehouses, Websites, SAP Warehouse Management System (WMS)
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