
Ilya Dounar
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Berlin, Germany
Toptal member since June 28, 2022
Ilya is an award-winning designer boasting over a decade of professional experience. He was noted for his ability to blend user needs and business goals seamlessly. This expertise was honed during his tenure as Art Director at wargaming.net and hainteractive.com, where he led entire project cycles from concept to completion. His career spans across the globe. His portfolio gleams digital solutions crafted for clients like Verizon, Zenia, Bulba Ventures, A1, Motorola, Danone, and Philips.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Product Designer
FanDaily
- Designed and delivered interactive prototypes showcasing intuitive user flows and interfaces for a collegiate athletics application, enhancing user engagement and streamlining sports data navigation.
- Developed a cohesive brand identity by crafting logos, selecting color schemes, and defining typography to align with the application’s vision and target audience, ensuring a strong and recognizable visual presence.
- Integrated user feedback into iterative design processes by implementing strategies to collect insights, leading to refined user-centered designs that address the needs and expectations of collegiate sports fans.
- Prepared detailed design specifications for seamless handoff to developers, including interaction guidelines and asset libraries, ensuring the final implementation maintained design consistency and quality.
UI/UX Designer
Mira
- Conducted a UX review of Miracare.com, identifying key usability issues and areas for improvement.
- Led user research by interviewing the target audience to gather insights and refine the website experience.
- Designed a responsive landing page focused on hormone awareness and product education, ensuring accessibility and engagement.
- Enhanced the website’s UI/UX, improving navigation, content clarity, and overall user flow for a better customer experience.
Product Designer
BlackForest
- Led a series of collaborative workshops with stakeholders to align project goals, prioritize key features, refine user flows, and ensure that branding elements resonated with the target audience while meeting business objectives.
- Conducted an in-depth UI/UX review to identify areas for improvement, ensuring an optimal user experience tailored to the financial services sector.
- Refined existing wireframes to enhance user flows and interactions, providing a more intuitive and user-centered design approach.
- Developed a unique branding strategy, including logo design, to convey trust, transparency, and professionalism essential for a wealth management platform.
- Created a cohesive and scalable design system that maintained brand consistency across the platform, ensuring usability and accessibility across various devices.
- Produced high-fidelity, developer-ready designs, translating concepts into a polished, ready-for-development format to facilitate seamless handoff.
Senior UX/UI Designer
Vocareum
- Redesigned a leading AI and ML learning platform's website.
- Created a detailed style guide to ensure brand consistency across the website.
- Delivered new mockups based on user feedback and analytics to improve user interface.
UI/UX Designer
TableGuide.ai LLC
- Reengineered the entire project structure for optimal performance.
- Significantly enhanced user experience and interactive elements.
- Led a comprehensive rebranding and redesign of desktop and mobile platforms.
- Developed and consolidated a robust design library.
UI/UX Designer
MOD Worldwide
- Performed a thorough UX audit to identify pain points and opportunities for improvement, leading to actionable insights that enhanced user experience and interaction across the platform.
- Optimized the healthcare platform's architecture, significantly improving performance and scalability, which reduced operational downtime and enhanced system efficiency.
- Led the rebranding and redesign of the healthcare platform for both desktop and mobile, resulting in increased brand recognition and trust among users.
- Created a highly effective landing page that streamlined navigation for healthcare employers and brokers, guiding them to the appropriate resources and improving user experience.
- Compiled a comprehensive design library for the healthcare client, ensuring consistency across all digital assets and enabling faster, more efficient design processes.
UI/UX Designer
The Big Machine FL Inc.
- Conducted a UI audit and heuristics analysis. Identified areas for improvement and best practices for the social media app's user interface.
- Developed modern layout designs. Created visually appealing and competitive UI designs for iOS and Android platforms.
- Created a design system. Established a comprehensive design system to ensure UI consistency and streamline future design processes.
- Enhanced user engagement. Redesigned the interface to facilitate better user interactions and connections, increasing overall engagement.
UX/UI Designer
5 P.M. LTD.
- Redesigned the Web App for a restaurant reservation management system.
- Developed a new application architecture, improved the interaction experience, and developed a design system.
- Built a new logotype and brand identity guide, including colors and typography, language and tone of voice.
- Developed low and high-fidelity interactive prototypes.
Design Director
Wargaming America
- Headed 15 product and graphic design teams worldwide.
- Delivered 40+ projects on services, tools, branding, and identities from scratch.
- Developed UI/UX and implemented guidelines for SaaS people management tools for 5,500 employees.
- Received honorable mention three times from Awwwards and got recognized as the best design agency by White Square.
- Reinforced the brand by introducing identity design development.
- Raised the efficiency of the design department by more than 20%.
- Improved design processes by implementing new workflow methodologies.
Art Director
Wargaming America
- Headed the design team of five product and visual designers.
- Developed product design for Wargaming's launcher to an audience of 160 million.
- Created UI/UX for Wargaming's people management tools with 5,500 employees.
- Reinforced the brand by redesigning the identity and website.
Art Director
HA Interactive Brand Studio
- Founded a design studio specializing in digital design and strategies.
- Led a team of seven designers and five full-stack developers, achieving a company growth of 300% in three years.
- Delivered 70+ projects on time from scratch, from telecommunications to eCommerce clients.
- Received honorable mention and Site of the Day award from Awwwards and got recognized as the best Belarusian agency by Rating Runeta.
- Improved the design process by implementing new workflows and methodologies.
- Mentored more than ten designers from junior to middle level.
Lecturer | UI/UX and Web Design
European Humanities University
- Taught a course on UI/UX in the department of visual design and media.
- Managed lecture planning, preparation, and research.
- Gave lectures and checked and assessed students' work and exams.
Senior Graphic and Web Designer
Red Graphic Systems
- Developed the agency's first responsive website design.
- Explored and implemented new approaches in design.
- Created design concepts for web and mobile experiences.
- Developed branding and identity through the entire design process.
- Delivered more than 20 projects and concepts from scratch.
Senior Graphic Designer and Art Director
Public Group | Branding
- Generated creative ideas and concepts to fulfill the client's brief by working closely with the copywriter.
- Produced sketches, storyboards, roughs, or scamps to communicate ideas to the client.
- Commissioned photographers, artists, or filmmakers to work on projects.
- Reviewed and approved other team members' designs, artwork, photography, and graphics.
- Developed the overall look or style of a publication, an advertising campaign, and a digital project.
- Improved quality results by studying, evaluating, and redesigning processes. Implemented changes.
Sessional Graphic Designer
National Gallery of Modern Art Zacheta
- Managed the development of the visual concept of the Opening the Door exhibition.
- Led the graphic design for the Opening the Door exhibition.
- Designed the catalog and all visual assets like posters, posters, and artwork captions for the exhibition.
Sessional Graphic Designer
Contemporary Art Center | Vilnius, Lithuania
- Acted as the leading graphic designer in the Opening the Door exhibition.
- Managed the entire design process of all visual assets for the exhibition, including catalogs, posters, and artwork captions.
- Developed the visual concept of the Opening the Door exhibition.
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Design and Media
European Humanities University - Vilnius, Lithuania
Skills
Tools
Adobe, Adobe InDesign, Apple Keynote, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Creative Suite, Affinity Photo, Sketch, Microsoft PowerPoint, Miro, After Effects CC, Jira, Zeplin, Figma Prototyping, Figma Plugins, Photoshop CC, Adobe CC, AI Tools, Microsoft Word, BrowserStack, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Principle
Languages
Visual Design Language, CSS
Platforms
iOS, Android, Figma, WordPress, Adobe Suite, Mobile, Web, Webflow, Mobile (Tablet), Webflow CMS
Industry Expertise
Marketing, Advertising, Social Networking, Restaurants & Dining, Product Ideation, Sports, Education, Travel & Leisure, Creative Tech, Consumer Products, Entertainment & Leisure
Other
Branding, Interactive UX, Interactive UI, Responsive Design, Web App UX, Web App UI, Web Design, Graphic Design, Identity, Mobile App Design, Prototyping, Usability Engineering, User Research, Interface Design, Content, Art Direction, Web UX Design, Web UI Design, App UI, Apps, Responsive UI, Mobile UI, System UI, Visual Design, Web UI, Mobile UI Design, System Design, Websites, UI Design, Mobile App UI, User Experience (UX), User Flows, User Interface (UI), UX Flows, UX Prototyping, UI Prototyping, Web App Design, UX Design, Mobile Apps, Mobile Design, Tablet Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Product Design, Gamification, Animation, Data Visualization, Dashboard Design, SaaS Design, B2B, SaaS, Mobile UX, Mobile Web Design, Dashboards, Data Analytics, UI Branding, Mobile First, Responsive Web Apps, B2C, UI Components, Motion & Animation Design, Landing Page Design, Corporate Websites, Information Architecture (IA), Strategy, Concepting, Nonprofits, Mockups, Mood Boards, Financial Design, UI Animation, Interaction Design (IxD), MVP Design, Tables, User Journeys, Landing Pages, Logo Design, Pitch Decks, Web UX, PowerPoint Design, Presentation Design, Diagrams, Web Page Mockups, Wireframing, High-fidelity Mockups, Brand Design, Presentations, Pitch Presentations, eCommerce, Marketing Design, Brand Guidelines, Rapid Prototyping, Ideation Workshops, Brainstorming, Innovation, Design Systems, Mentorship, Usability Testing, Mentorship & Coaching, UX Research, Information Design, Interactive Dashboards, Design, Collateral Design, Conversion Rate, Web Content, Visual Identity, Website Redesign, UI Guidelines, Mobile UX Design, Brand Strategy, Logotype, Interactive Prototypes, High-fidelity Prototypes, Design Leadership, User Onboarding, Tone of Voice, Style Guides, Brand Books, Consumer Branding, Material UI, Icon Design, Illustration, App Design, Customer Journeys, User Personas, Corporate Branding, Social Media Marketing (SMM), Typography, Color Palettes, UX Wireframes, Strategic Design, Motion Design, Lean UX, Competitive Analysis, Design Specifications, Rapid Interactive Prototyping, Mobile Prototypes, Design Thinking, Web Applications, Low-fidelity Mockups, Agile, eCommerce Design, eCommerce UI, B2B2C, Layout Design, Blogs, Storytelling, Product Pages, Scroll Animations, UI Motion, Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise Design, Journey Mapping, UI Style Guides, Component Libraries, Pixel Perfect, Consulting, Conversion, UX Strategy, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), Iconography, User Interviews, Design Sprints, Image Retouching, Visual Assets, Tablet UI, StoryBrand, Analytics, Material Design, Smart TV, Team Mentoring, Leadership, User Testing, User-centered Design (UCD), Cross-functional Collaboration, Competitor Analysis & Profiling, Mobile-first Design, Magazines, Blog Design, Interviews, Design Workshops, Report Design, Color Schemes, Stakeholder Interviews, Design Reviews, UX Assessment, WordPress Design, Digital Product Design, UI Design Standards & Best Practices, Holistic UX Design, Best Practices in Design, Brand Identity, Discovery Workshops, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Accessibility, Social Media, UX Audits, Marketplaces, UI Libraries, Infographs, Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS), Enterprise SaaS, Educational Platform Design, Web Animation, Stakeholder Engagement, Market Research, Consumer Insights, Usability, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Complex Application User Interfaces (UI), Enterprise Application Design, Business to Business (B2B), Adobe Creative Cloud, Annual Reports, Charts, Elementor, Website Design, Form Design, Questionnaires, User Workflows, Social Ad Design, Advertising Design, Content Strategy, Web Accessibility, WCAG, Social Media Design, Collaboration, AI Design, Lead Generation, Conversational Design, Enterprise, AI-enabled Applications, User Validation, Growth-driven Design (GDD), Image Manipulation, Creative Direction, iOS App Design, iOS UI Design, UX Analysis, User Journey Maps, User Stories, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Pitch Deck Design, Framer, 3D Design, Visual Storytelling, Complex Web Systems, Email Design, Corporate Design, Food Packaging, Data Analysis, Fintech Design, Mobile Applications, User Experience Design, Trading, Blockchain, Crypto, No-code Development, Community Platforms, Marketplace Design, Analytical Dashboards, Creative Design, Infographics, Editorial Design, Digital Editorials, Content Management Systems (CMS), Creativity, Campaigns, Human-centered Design (HCD), Web Application Design, Edtech Design, Internal Apps, A/B Testing, Heat Maps, Responsive, Web-based Interface, Corporate Identity, Print Design, Videos, Component Design, Creative Problem Solving, Enterprise UX Design, Large Language Models (LLMs), Startups, Usability Analysis, Web Dashboards, Principal, Chatbots, UI Audits, Heuristic Analysis, Social Networks, UX Branding, App UX
Experience
- Digital Product Design - 12 years
- Branding - 12 years
- UI Design Standards & Best Practices - 12 years
- Art Direction - 10 years
- Web Design - 10 years
- Responsive Design - 8 years
- Interface Design - 8 years
- System Design - 7 years
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