Elisey Kolev
Verified Expert in Design
UX/UI Designer
Sofia, Bulgaria
Toptal member since October 3, 2017
Elisey is a senior product designer with 10+ years of experience in UI/UX. Known for transforming complex issues into user-centric solutions, he effectively aligns products with user needs and business goals. Elisey has designed a predictive analytics platform that uses generative AI to better understand outcomes and costs across 350+ billion healthcare records. His strategic approach has also helped a global cybersecurity firm improve its architectural design and boost task efficiency by 30%.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Lead UX/UI Designer
AI-driven Health Analytics Company
- Designed an intuitive platform adopted by leading US hospitals, including Cleveland Clinic and Houston Methodist, enabling healthcare providers to accurately analyze patient health data and predict risks.
- Created a logical and user-friendly product architecture and layout for patient data, ensuring healthcare professionals can quickly access and interpret critical information.
- Developed and maintained a scalable design system to ensure a consistent user experience across the platform, using unified colors, typography, and UI components.
- Collaborated with cross-disciplinary teams to conceptualize and launch AI-driven tools, empowering medical experts to perform advanced patient analysis and improve care quality.
- Led workshops and brainstorming sessions to integrate user-friendly design and information architecture (IA) into the platform, simplifying complex AI features for end users.
- Implemented user feedback loops to continuously improve the platform's usability, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of healthcare professionals.
Mobile UX/UI Designer
Mediflix, Inc.
- Designed a user-friendly app that links to the platform's large video database, allowing a video chatbot to answer patient questions on various topics, improving user interaction and access to healthcare advice.
- Strategically planned the architectural design to ensure users can easily find, interact with, and navigate through the expert guidance videos, enhancing the overall user experience and ensuring seamless access to vital healthcare information.
- Transformed a library of expert advice videos into a friendly chatbot that can have conversations, understand users' questions and feelings, and recommend helpful videos in an easy and supportive way.
- Led and carried out the first user interviews, confirming the value of the video chatbot concept and identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation.
- Collaborated with product management, developers, and executive leadership to strategically plan and implement impactful product enhancements.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Biasi Consulting Limited
- Conducted research into competitor products in the online education and university application domains, identifying gaps and opportunities to position our educational assistant platform innovatively.
- Executed research targeting students and parents, diving into their pain points, expectations, and needs to derive insights that would shape and validate the problem-solving approach of our product.
- Led the architectural design of the product's information setup, carefully considering different users (students, parents, and teachers) to ensure everyone could easily start using it and get continuous support.
- Initiated the design process by creating low to mid-fidelity wireframes, using architectural principles to map out the platform's functionalities and ensure a structured and user-friendly design approach.
- Led the UX strategy and design for the MVP of the educational assistant platform, ensuring a user-friendly, intuitive product that laid the foundation for future development.
- Used the no-code tool Bubble.io to quickly develop the MVP of the educational assistant platform. This method saved time and money, allowing us to make fast changes based on user feedback.
UX/UI Specialist
Knowsis Limited
- Worked with stakeholders to gather valuable industry know how and created the platform's information architecture.
- Defined the target user audience for the platform based on data gathered through stakeholder interviews and UX research.
- Researched competitor products within the ESG industry and mapped out opportunities.
- Created low to mid fidelity wireframes early in the design process, ensuring that we have a clear understanding of the functionalities and designs that the software needs to support.
- Created the visual design for the platform's interface.
UI/UX Specialist
Health Picture
- Designed an easy-to-use, responsive web platform that organizes significant medical records clearly and shows the user's relative health risks for acute conditions.
- Created stories for two main users (personas) using insights from chats with medical experts, to make sure our design really fits what users need and want.
- Used architectural design to build the steps users take, especially focusing on older people with Medicare insurance and their caregivers, to make sure they can easily keep an eye on health, care visits, procedures, risks, and more.
UX Architect
Cybersecurity Company
- Designed user experiences for products aimed at preventing terrorism and crime, ensuring they were tailored to the high-stakes, data-sensitive needs of security professionals.
- Conducted thorough interviews with users from various crime-fighting agencies, diving deep into their workflows to identify critical needs, and developing use cases that directly address their unique challenges and requirements.
- Revised and improved the product's information architecture, employing strategic architectural design principles to ensure optimal organization, accessibility, and user-friendliness of data-intensive interfaces.
- Ensured the architectural design supported quick and intuitive access to critical security data, enabling users to make timely and informed decisions in sensitive scenarios.
- Developed detailed wireframes with a strong emphasis on architectural design to create a data-driven web application, ensuring complex filters were presented in a coherent, user-friendly manner to facilitate precise and efficient data retrieval.
- Conducted usability tests, refined navigation and content, and improved architectural design, reducing user-task time by 30% through streamlined flows and intuitive interactions.
- Led the UX research and design processes, ensuring architectural design principles were consistently applied, enhancing user experience across the entire platform.
Lead UI/UX Designer
Bloom Dental
- Collected and compared data on the strengths and weaknesses of existing dental practice management products.
- Performed interviews with the stakeholders and potential users (dental practices) to better understand their workflow, needs, and standard practices.
- Prepared user personas based on the key insights gathered from user interviews.
- Defined the different user's goals by writing user stories.
- Created user flows to define the actions the users would take to achieve their goals.
- Crafted detailed wireframes of the administrative tools, clinical procedure tools, and patient portal.
- Finalized the UI/UX of the dental practice software.
UI/UX Designer
GlaxoSmithKline
- Created the UI and UX for a mobile companion app for asthma patients that aims to assist them in their daily routines by reminding them to regularly perform their inhalations and helping them to better manage their condition and treatment.
- Partnered with Sensodyne to create the UI and UX for a mobile companion app that integrates with their smart electric toothbrushes and assists users in their dental hygiene habits.
- Collaborated with Physiogel to create the UI and UX for a mobile application that allows users to take microscopic photos of their skin and then analyze and compare the results of their daily skincare.
UI/UX Designer
SCAS
- Designed a web-based educational platform aiming to help extend the working life of aging employees.
- Created the design for a web platform providing valuable resources, educational games, and guidance on media literacy and internet security issues.
- Designed a web-based training platform covering aspects of HIV and AIDS prevention.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Traditional Animation and Arts
New Bulgarian University - Sofia, Bulgaria
Professional Qualification in Computer Science
Technology School of Electronic Systems "ELSYS" - Sofia, Bulgaria
Skills
Tools
Figma, Photoshop
Industry Expertise
Healthcare App Design
Other
Mobile UI Design, Wireframing, Mockups, Web Design, Portal Design, Web UI Design, Information Architecture, UI Prototyping, User Research, Mobile Apps, B2C, Prototyping, SaaS Design, UI Design, UX Design, User Flow Design, UI Design, B2B Design, Web Platforms, Medical Software, UX Design, UX Research, UX Design, UI Design, Web Design, Healthcare Management Systems, Mobile App Design, UX Prototyping, Mobile UX Design, Mobile App, UX Design, Product Design, SaaS Design, DataViz, Data Visualization Design, Dashboard, Web App Design, UI Design, UX Design, Dashboard Design, Design Leadership, UX Design, Healthcare Services, Responsive Web Design, Mobile App Design, UX Wireframes, Mobile App Design, Mobile App Design, Architectural Design, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Web Design, Object-oriented Programming, Responsive Web Development
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