Etrit Haxhiu
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since January 16, 2020
Etrit is a product and visual designer with over nine years of experience and has worked on enterprise-level products and services such as Sentry Cyberlance, Labyrinth, and Berlitz. He has designed visuals presented to Credit Suisse, Stanford, Raiffeisen, and many other top-tier private and public institutions. Etrit brings a strong research, strategy, and design background to every project.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Co-founder and Lead Visuals Designer
Mayune Visuals & Web Solutions
- Founded the company, created the initial team, wrote up the business plan, and set targets.
- Performed client outreach and found new partnerships and projects.
- Worked with top national clients, specifically tech-related fields such as blockchain development, cybersecurity, IT, and more.
- Managed all visuals for the largest digital school franchise in the region, boosting their customer sales and onboarding new students.
- Designed the process of planning and implementing various business and sales-related goals, transforming them into various output forms to be used online and in traditional media for all clients.
- Created the UI of the top HR company in the region, designing the job academy platform, which nowadays sees over 100,000 unique views per month.
Product Designer
AI Investment Analysis Company
- Conducted a UX audit of the client's initial wireframes and made suggestions that we implemented into the final wireframes before designing the UI.
- Iterated on different visual styles for the app's main screen to arrive at the product's final look. Recommended a few UI kits to incorporate into the design to reduce development costs for the front end.
- Created a clickable prototype of the final product for the client to test internally before finally handing off all assets and Figma files to their development team.
- Teamed up with a WordPress developer and visual designer to put together a custom theme WordPress website, after finishing the product design.
- Used an iterative approach to finalize the website's design, working closely with the founding team members.
UX Designer
Airline Services Company
- Redesigned the UX flow for the mobile and desktop consumer application based on customer feedback that the client provided and iterated on wireframes before finally designing the UI and creating a test prototype.
- Redesigned the UI and made some UX improvements to their 100+ screen legacy B2C product. To be cost-effective, I made decisions together with their development team to ensure my designs would not be cost-prohibitive in development.
- Designed the investor pitch deck in under two weeks, working closely with the CEO. The big challenge was explaining the complicated data in the simplest terms and forms and having a deck that could be understood easily.
- Crafted the UI kit for one of their B2C products to allow end users to customize the look of their software setup, essentially adding white-label functionality.
Media Consultant
Sentry Cybersecurity
- Consulted on UI/UX for the company's learning management system, including branding and video visual templates for e-learning videos.
- Built social media posts and strategy for customer reach.
- Designed all corporate documentation such as penetration test report design, diagrams, and other business-oriented visuals.
Creative Director
Cyber Academy
- Directed UI/UX for the entire website, including internal student management system.
- Oversaw the creation of a brand book, logo, and identity for all marketing efforts, including templates and custom illustrations for social media.
- Designed and created a sample for the company's e-learning division, specifically designing the visuals for their e-learning videos, the branding and in-video motion graphics, and more.
Media Consultant
Public International Law & Policy Group
- Fully designed a national advocacy campaign resulting in over 20,000 petition signatures and a change in the law.
- Created a 10-part video series on citizens' rights which aired on national television for one year.
- Re-designed the campaign website.
- Created the content and visual strategy for all campaign objectives and goals.
- Designed various print materials used for the justice and the people campaign.
Graphic Designer
Graphic Design Agency
- Designed print and online material for various clients using their brand guidelines.
- Designed brand identities and logos for new and existing companies.
- Handled product photography and photo manipulation and prepared graphic assets for the video production department.
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Management and Media Communications
Rochester Institute of Technology - Prishtina, Kosovo
Exchange Semester Participant in Graphic Design
Montclair State University - Montclair, NJ, United States
Skills
Tools
Figma, Adobe CC, Jira, Tableau, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Canva, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Microsoft PowerPoint
Platforms
WordPress, Webflow
Languages
HTML
Other
UI Design, UX Design, Product Design, Web App Design, Pitch Decks, Dashboards, Visual Design, Branding, Web Design, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Component Libraries, Design Systems, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Mobile Apps, User-centered Design (UCD), Cross-functional Collaboration, Landing Page Design, Landing Pages, Rebranding, Software as a Service (SaaS), SaaS, Pitch Deck Consultant, B2B, B2C, User Research, Presentation Design, Material UI, Client Presentations, Investor Presentations, Color Theory, Typography, SaaS Design, B2B2C, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C)
Experience
- Web Design - 8 years
- UI Design - 8 years
- SaaS - 7 years
- Product Design - 7 years
- Web App Design - 4 years
- Pitch Decks - 3 years
- Dashboards - 3 years
- Tableau - 1 year
Tools
- Tableau
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