Inti Rey
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Zagreb, Croatia
Toptal member since May 24, 2018
With over 20 years of experience in product and UI/UX design and creative direction, including experience as a digital-agency owner, Inti has extensive experience in full-cycle product design. An entrepreneurial attitude and considerable multidisciplinary skills make him a systematic thinker and a proactive problem solver with a positive attitude and passion for creating innovative, intuitive, and delightful experiences.
Portfolio
Best Places Mobile App Product Design
Minimalistic Web Page
Enterprise RFP Management App UX and UI Design
Salsa Beach Splash Festival Branding and Logo
Work Experience
Senior Lead Product Designer
Leading Merchant Cash Advance US Company
- Worked with the general manager to help create a feature roadmap that moves us closer to achieving our vision.
- Partnered with product manager to define product strategy and developers to design for quick insights and long-lasting improvements.
- Worked closely with the visual designer and web developers, providing creative direction as necessary.
- Worked collaboratively within an agile process with other UI designers, product owners, project managers, and front-end developers.
- Created, maintained, and improved an extensive design system in collaboration with the dev team.
- Managed the initial discovery, including user research, competitive analysis, service blueprinting, problem definition, ideating, user-story mapping, wireframing, prototyping, and creating high-fidelity deliverables.
- Managed developer-handoff across the full product lifecycle.
- Worked in a high-paced agile environment with a diverse multidisciplinary team of 20 team members.
Product Designer
Freelancer
- Managed the user experience, including use cases, flow diagrams, competitive and comparative analysis, wireframes, visual design, and testing for numerous clients.
- Designed creative concepts and strategies for web-based and mobile-based product experiences and digital campaigns.
- Took responsibility for and managed a team of designers and developers; designed the concepts, brand strategy, logo, brand guidelines, and promotional materials for the SBSF International Congress. Led online social campaigns and promotions for eight years.
- Ideated and designed the UI for financial and banking dashboards and web apps.
- Built wireframes and created interactive prototypes for websites and mobile applications.
- Designed the basic-to-pixel-perfect graphics, UI kits, and diagrams of the websites and mobile apps.
- Collaborated with clients and senior-level stakeholders to gather requirements, establish the timeline, plan, and execute products.
- Cooperated with a range of clients focusing on web design and mobile apps.
- Designed logos, brochures, posters, and websites for various industries, including hotels, education, healthcare, government, IT, and security, among others.
Lead UI/UX Designer
Merory Rey Creative Branding Agency
- Designed creative concepts and strategies for web-based and mobile-based product experiences and digital campaigns.
- Managed a team of designers and developers and designed the concepts and brand strategy, logo, brand guidelines UI/UX, and promotional materials for leading online job portal KosovaJob at Kosovo.
- Managed creative direction and UI/UX design for “Be Creative” governmental international initiative for four years.
- Worked with clients and senior-level stakeholders to gather requirements, establish the timeline, and plan and execute products.
- Managed the user experience, including but not limited to use cases, flow diagrams, competitive/comparative analysis, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and visual design for numerous clients.
- Created UI/UX design solutions and pixel-perfect deliverables for interactive table platform.
- Delivered creative direction consultancy and lead design team for presidential elections candidate 2009 including UI/UX design.
- Hired and managed a team of designers, from junior to senior levels, and mentored them in processes.
Creative Director | Lead UI/UX/Visual Designer | Owner
Rey Condis Creative Agency
- Managed a team of designers and developers as a lead designer.
- Managed the user experience, including but not limited to use cases, flow diagrams, competitive/comparative analysis, wireframes, visual design, and testing for numerous clients.
- Designed creative concepts and strategies for web-based and mobile-based product experiences and digital campaigns.
- Worked with clients and senior-level stakeholders to gather requirements, establish the timeline, and plan and execute products.
- Worked as a creative director and lead designer for Arabesca (coffee manufacturer) including marketing, advertising, and promotion consultancy (five years full support).
- Worked as a creative director and lead designer for M-San Group (hardware distributor) including marketing, advertising, and promotion consultancy (four years full support).
- Worked as creative director and lead designer for VIVAX (domestic appliances manufacturer) including packaging design (four years full support).
Creative Director | Lead Designer
Hi-Tech Digital Marketing Agency
- Managed a team of designers and developers and designed the concepts and brand strategy, logo, brand guidelines, and promotional materials for leading online music portal VIPMusic.
- Designed logos, brochures, posters, and websites for a variety of industries including healthcare, IT, and others.
Art Director | Senior Graphic Designer
Midiken Marketing Agency
- Designed logos, brochures, posters, and websites for a variety of industries including pharma, IT, and others.
Graphic Designer | NLE Editor
Tema Video Production
- Won "Black Cat" award for the music video editing.
- Nominated for "Days of Croatian film" award for TV opening jingle.
- Designed logos, brochures, posters, and websites for various industries, including IT.
Junior Designer
Publicis FCB Croatia Marketing Agency
- Worked as a part of a team on various advetising campaigns for international brands.
Certifications
Leadership, Motivation and Organisational Control
Institute of Certified Professional Managers | Via Coursera
Managing Employee Performance
University of Minnesota | Via Coursera
Leadership Through Design Innovation
Coursera
Get Your Product Used: Adoption and Appropriation
Interaction Design Foundation
Gamification - How to Create Engaging User Experiences
Interaction Design Foundation
Conflict Resolution Skills
University of California, Irvine Division of Continuing Education I Via Coursera
Leadership Communication for Maximum Impact: Storytelling
Northwestern University | Via Coursera
High Performance Collaboration: Leadership, Teamwork, and Negotiation
Northwestern University | Via Coursera
Agile with Atlassian Jira
Atlassian University | Via Coursera
Client Needs and Software Requirements
University of Alberta | Via Coursera
Developing Innovative Ideas for Product Leaders
University of Maryland | Via Coursera
Establishing Product-Market Fit
University of Maryland | Via Coursera
SaaS Metrics Fundamentals for Managers, Founders and Investors
Udemy
How to Design for Augmented and Virtual Reality
Interaction Design Foundation
Digital Product Management Specialization
University of Virginia | Via Coursera
Agile Analytics
University of Virginia | Via Coursera
Agile Meets Design Thinking
University of Virginia | Via Coursera
Managing an Agile Team
University of Virginia | Via Coursera
Hypothesis Driven Development
University of Virginia | via Coursera
Digital Product Management
University of Virginia | Via Coursera
Mobile Experience Certification Exam
Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator
IBM
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
IBM
Google UX Design Professional Certificate
Responsive Web Design in Adobe XD
Information Visualization: Getting Dashboards Right
Interaction Design Foundation
Affordances: Designing Intuitive User Interfaces
Interaction Design Foundation
Data-Driven Design: Quantitative Research for UX
Interaction Design Foundation
Create High-fidelity Designs and Prototypes in Figma
Service Design: How to Design Integrated Service Experiences
Interaction Design Foundation
Conducting Usability Testing
Interaction Design Foundation
Conducting UX Research and Testing Early Concepts
Building Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes
UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, and Ideate
Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design
Product Management 101
Udemy
Skills
Tools
Adobe InDesign, Microsoft PowerPoint, Confluence, Jira, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Experience Design (XD), InVision, Sketch 4, After Effects CC, Apple Keynote
Industry Expertise
Events, Banking & Finance, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare
Platforms
Web, Figma, MacOS, Webflow
Languages
HTML5, CSS3
Other
Enterprise SaaS, Minimalism, Service Design, Empathy, UX Wireflows, Concepting, Visual Design, User Flows, Wireframing, Dashboard Design, Interface Design, Information Architecture (IA), Product Design, UX Design, UI Design, Branding, Fintech, Google Material Design, SaaS Design, Digital Product Design, Ideation, Web App UX, UI Branding, Web App UI, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Websites, High-fidelity Mockups, High-fidelity Prototypes, Rapid Prototyping, User Interface (UI), User Journeys, Software as a Service (SaaS), Responsive Web Apps, Enterprise Application Design, Dashboards, Graphic Design, Visual Identity, Critical Thinking, User-centered Design (UCD), Video Editing, Art Direction, Design Strategy, Layout Design, Website Redesign, Creativity, Pitch Decks, Presentation Design, Sitemaps, Brand Guidelines, Print Design, Iterative Design, Design Thinking, Digital Branding, Logo Design, CreativeJS, PowerPoint Design, PowerPoint Templates, Design, Typography, Web UI Design, Jobs to be Done (JTBD), Wireframe to Product, UX Prototyping, Enterprise UX Design, User Research, User Interviews, Product Development, Business Process Flow Diagrams, Enterprise, Financial Reporting Dashboards, Medical Software, Data Visualization, UX Strategy, Mobile App UI, Mobile UX, Mobile UI, Prototyping, Motion Design, Design Systems, Responsive Design, Service Blueprints, Digital Banking, B2B, Component Libraries, Design Sprints, Lean UX, Enterprise Design, Design Documentation, Infographics, Infographs, Post-production, Motion & Animation Design, Motion Graphics, Design Leadership, Investor Presentations, Agile, Scrum, Atomic Design, Design Guidelines, Validation, Finance, WCAG 2, User Journey Maps, Mobile Design, Design Research, Healthcare Services, Creative Direction, SaaS, UX Flows, Personas, Product Ownership, Ideation Workshops, User Scenarios, Responsive Layout, Web UI, Web UX, Online Banking, Financial UX, Mobile Banking, App UI, App UX, User Experience (UX), UX Branding, User Paths, Web Design, UX Research, UX Testing, Interaction Design (IxD), Usability Testing, User Testing, Web App Design, Stakeholder Management, Gamification, Quantitative Calculus, Google Design Sprints, Accessibility, Product Management, Quantitative Research, Usability, Mobile App Design, App Product Management, SaaS Product Management, Hypothesis Testing, Agile Delivery, Continuous Delivery (CD), Lean Startups, Agile UX, Analytics, UX Analysis, Agile Data Science, Digital Product Management, Hypothesis-driven Development (HDD), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Virtual Reality App Design, Metrics, Key Performance Metrics, Market Fit, Product Strategy, Collaboration, Teamwork, Negotiation, Storytelling, Crisis Management, Personal Branding, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Management, Leadership, UX Leadership, Innovation, Innovative UX, Performance Management, Kanban, Organizational Design, Clients, Requirements
Experience
- UI Design - 10 years
- Dashboard Design - 10 years
- Product Design - 10 years
- UX Design - 10 years
- Service Design - 10 years
- Fintech - 6 years
- Enterprise SaaS - 4 years
- User Research - 3 years
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