Julia Shkatova

Designer in Berlin, Germany

Member since June 1, 2020

Julia is a senior product designer with more than six years of experience based in Berlin, Germany. She enables companies and teams to build user-centered and scalable experiences through systems thinking, empathy, and pleasing aesthetics. Currently, Julia leads product and brand design at MusicHub.

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Portfolio

Digital Design

Flock App – Responsive Website Design for Traveling App
- Product Branding
- Web Design
- Responsive Layout
- Travel & Leisure
- Sharing Economy
- UX Design
Ruum App – Website and Blog Redesign on Webflow
- Brand Design
- Web Design
- Webflow
- Webflow CMS
- Workforce Management (WFM)
- Project Management
Plan A – Carbon Footprint Calculator Dashboard
- Dashboard Design
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Forms
- UI Guidelines
- Carbon
Mentoroom – Mobile App Design for Educational Platform
- iOS App Design
- Mobile App Design
- UI Design
- Educational Platform Design
- UX Design
- User Onboarding
Seenspire – Website Redesign for Digital Content Service
- Web Design
- UI Design
- UX Design
- Visual Design
- Video Streaming
- Responsive Layout
Ruum App – Template Library Experience
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Web App Design
- Dashboard Design
- Standard Template Library (STL)

Employment

Lead Product Designer
2021 - PRESENT
MusicHub GmbH
- Designed and launched Stats Dashboard, with 52.3% of users checking their analytics at least weekly.
- Improved user sign-up and introduced user onboarding to delivered release conversion, with 27.95% of the newly registered users submitting their release on their first day.
- Exited the beta phase and launched the subscription service with 12.26% of registered users subscribing to a paid plan.
Technologies: Figma, Mixpanel, Miro, Intercom, Maze, Typeform.io
Digital Designer
2015 - PRESENT
Freelance
- Consulted early-stage startups on the market and competitor analysis, UI/UX benchmarking, persona creation, user journeys, and brand framework.
- Collaborated with stakeholders and designed MVPs to validate product ideas.
- Designed and directed mobile, web, and desktop apps from scratch.
- Designed numerous brand guidelines for both digital and physical products.
- Built user scenarios, user stories, and user flows for digital product improvements based on qualitative user research.
- Created product prototypes for ideas validation and tested them with users using moderated and unmoderated testing technics.
- Built responsive websites on Webflow to enable small teams to scale.
Technologies: Usability, Adobe CC, Webflow, Sketch, Figma
User Experience Design Specialist
2018 - 2021
SAP
- Worked on a design system that was built in Figma and regularly updated to align with the engineering team.
- Designed complex features for the work management and collaboration platform.
- Designed and built product marketing landing pages using Figma and Webflow.
- Completely redesigned brand and app's look and feel to fit the enterprise brand.
- Designed and built a help center using Webflow CMS.
- Conducted user research and user testing sessions for new features.
Technologies: Adobe CC, Sketch, Figma
Product Design Intern
2017 - 2017
STRV
- Improved knowledge of app development for IOS.
- Designed mobile applications, specifically MVPs.
- Designed an educational app, Mentoroom, that was featured on Behance.
Technologies: InVision, Sketch
Junior Visual Designer
2016 - 2016
4finance
- Created social media design templates.
- Designed marketing compaigns.
- Designed UI and marketing elements for product webpages.
- Supported the product team with UI design for online loan calculators.
- Supported the marketing team that was distributed in several countries.
Technologies: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Multimedia
2014 - 2018
University of Economics - Prague, Czech Republic
ERASMUS (Student Exchange) Program Participant in Communications
2017 - 2017
Aarhus University - Aarhus, Denmark

Experience

Product Design6 years
User Flows5 years
Web App Design5 years
UI Design5 years
Figma4 years
Design Systems4 years
UX Design4 years
Webflow4 years

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Designer in Berlin, Germany

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