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Location
Wrocław, Poland
Toptal Member Since
January 26, 2016
Elijah is a highly experienced designer passionate about outstanding and innovative user experiences. He has a strong design impact on products by proposing ideas that exceed standards and envision new attitudes. He is willing to venture into the creative and holistic pursuit of brilliant solutions. He worked for various businesses and institutions, including Honda, Volvo, Iron Mountain, Nokia Siemens Networks, LG, McCain, and more.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Designer | Researcher | Head of UX/UI
2015 - 2016
Lev og Leg
- Performed market research for niches in eCommerce attitudes.
- Designed brand strategy, logotype and stationary, base social media graphic files, and guides.
- Designed a series of graphic signs for use with promotional clothes.
- Developed a user experience map and a personas empathy map for websites.
- Engineered data structures and site maps for company eCommerce prototype based on WordPress technology.
- Developed a working eCommerce solution.
- Developed innovative social media platform based on WordPress technology and BuddyPress.
- Created content ideas and copyrighting.
Technologies: BuddyPress, WordPress, Pinterest, Evernote, CSS, HTML, InVision, Adobe CC
Medical System UX/UI Inspector
2014 - 2016
Lower Silesian Centre of Lung Diseases
- Performed UX research on more than 800 real system users.
- Work with two remote teams and organized the cooperation of the teams.
- Designed the new logotype, website, and some printed material for internal purposes.
- Led the implementation of 400 new desktops workstations along with providing intensive training for hospital patients.
- Developed a conference website with online registration process and automated accommodation confirmation and planning.
Technologies: GitHub, Trello, JavaScript, PHP, CSS, HTML, Adobe Creative Suite
Design Teacher
2015 - 2015
Activisation Foundation - NGO
- Created custom teaching methodology to efficiently involve disabled people in the design processes.
- Conducted inspirational lessons showing practical use of design.
- Taught full time classes of HTML and CSS programming with JavaScript elements.
- Evaluated students progress and organized further training in companies and institutions.
- Conducted lessons of UI design and UX construction.
Technologies: JavaScript, Trello, CSS, HTML, WordPress, Adobe Creative Suite
Head of UX/UI - Contract
2014 - 2015
Zmorph3D
- Designed the strategy for online solutions and prepared a detailed road map for the development contract.
- Created the informational data structure for a website.
- Designed website designs based on mobile previews.
- Designed and implemented eCommerce solution based on WordPress and WooCommerce technology.
- Designed and implemented company software website based on WordPress and connected it with the main system.
- Designed a social platform for a 3D model sharing on the basis of WordPress platform.
- Created a graphic design team that started to work on new online content.
- Integrated the mailing system with the online platform.
Technologies: Pencil & Paper, WooCommerce, WordPress, Axure, Adobe Creative Suite
Head of UX/UI | Creative Director | Project Manager
2010 - 2014
Mass Gravity
- Designed the UX and UI for the wholesale system and a new website for one of brands of a well-known Australian underwear manufacturer.
- Created the CI and was in charge of its implementation for the biggest Polish road construction company. Over 300 design templates were created.
- Designed the brand, logotypes, print templates, office and classified documents, Intranet IT solutions, website, and office look of the investment company; it was involved the security valuable papers sector.
- Created a dynamic brand website and social media promotional materials for an international head hunting company.
- Designed the online system and application that translates text messages on the fly.
- Designed the UX and UI for affiliate program for a leading central-european chemistry manufacturer.
- Created animated campaigns for a recruiting company.
- Created the brand, eCommerce solution, and was in charge of the integration of an online system with a sales accounting platform of a growing vintage jeans retailer.
- Designed and developed a communication and cooperation platform for Polish national law and enforcement agencies.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, Google Hangouts, Skype, Pen & Paper, Processing, Autodesk Inventor, Cinema 4D, Avid Pro Tools, Atlassian, Bitbucket, Trello, GitHub, InVision, Balsamiq, Axure, Adobe Creative Suite
Freelance Web Designer | Graphic Designer
2010 - 2012
Nasza Klasa NK.pl
- Worked with a large team of developers on upgrading a major part of the biggest Polish social network.
- Designed a product that broke the all-time sale record.
- Created the UX and UI for a gaming platform within a social network.
- Presented several print products to implement in social networks.
- Designed several seasonal events landing pages inside network.
- Designed graphics and Flash animations for online campaigns.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, Google Hangouts, Skype, GitHub, Cinema 4D, Balsamiq, Axure, Adobe Creative Suite
Designer | Co-Founder
2007 - 2010
Proofing Print House
- Set up and led a team of 28 people that successfully fulfilled all daily needs of a modern, digital, and offset printing house.
- Designed online digital solution that served as the "project to print" system for in-house use.
- Designed a system to automatically manage design processes of personalized leaflets for the largest cinema network in Poland.
- Led a team of designers in creating hundreds of different corporate and marketing materials, magazines, and documents for national and international clients.
- Designed and printed annual company magazine and all corporate materials for largest data security and storage company.
- Translated and implemented international designed guides and document templates for local company branch use.
- Designed and printed materials for regional and national museums, philharmonics, universities, and government institutions.
- Designed the brand, UX and UI for the largest Polish biofuel market portal.
- Designed the UX and UI for the wholesale system and a new website for a well known Australian underwear manufacturer.
Technologies: Flash, CSS, HTML, Softimage, Adobe Creative Suite
Designer | Founder
1996 - 2006
Animage
- Designed brand, corporate identity, 3D product designs, and website for the largest eastern European manufacturer of insulators.
- Prepared the 3D designs for a very successful campaign in 2004 that increased Honda's Poland sales by 20%.
- Designed the UX and UI for online sales platform of McCain products. Implemented the 3D models and rendered them.
- Designed the brand, logotype, website, and printed materials for a large health product company.
- Created animations presenting innovative food services inside a Toyota factory that won a contract for a local catering company.
- Designed 3D models and scenes for different music video clips and TV advertisements.
- Designed the brand, website, and many graphics for a local hip-hop style cloth manufacturer.
- Designed the UI for a desktop applications for an Australian financial services provider.
- Designed printed magazines for national and international clients.
Technologies: Flash, CSS, HTML, Softimage, 3D Studio Max, Maya, Adobe Creative Suite
Education
2000 - 2005
Master's Degree in Marketing and Computer Science
Wrocław University of Economics - Wroclaw, Poland
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