Kateryna Korolenko
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Kiev, Ukraine
Toptal member since March 30, 2021
Kateryna has been a professional designer since 2015, specializing in web platforms, portals, and mobile apps. She collaborates with clients to identify problems, offer exceptional design solutions, and realize them effectively. Kateryna creates high-quality products that optimize business requirements, technical requirements, and restrictions, and users' needs.
Experience
- Figma - 8 years
- UX Design - 6 years
- Wireframing - 6 years
- UI Design - 5 years
- CRM Design - 4 years
- Dashboard Design - 4 years
- Interface Design - 4 years
- Mobile UI Design - 3 years
Portfolio
Work Experience
Head of Product Design
Rollup
- Established a comprehensive and scalable design system adopted across all Rollup products, improving UI consistency and speeding up design workflows.
- Delivered five major product features in collaboration with engineering, successfully deploying them to production and enhancing user engagement and functionality.
- Streamlined developer handoff and interdepartmental co-ordination, cutting the design-to-development cycle time by 50% and boosting overall team efficiency.
Lead Designer
Prototeam
- Devised tailored design strategies that balanced user goals, business objectives, and technical limitations to drive functional and aesthetic outcomes.
- Collaborated with clients to build workflows and created estimates for the full scope of work.
- Architected accessible and intuitive navigation structures across digital platforms, enhancing usability and compliance with accessibility standards.
Art Director
Fairmint
- Integrated user feedback, usability testing, and analytics insights to continuously improve interfaces.
- Developed a company core investment platform, enabling businesses to raise capital from users and stakeholders.
- Accelerated the company's $7 million fundraising success in the first year by contributing to the development of a high-performing customer experience system.
Interface Designer
Bachoo Design Studio
- Conducted research on the target audience and competitors and created a mood board for an upcoming project.
- Developed the future product architecture and user flow to build a clear roadmap for me and the developers.
- Created wireframes and interactive prototypes based on information architectures.
- Communicated with the client and the project manager and solved difficult questions connected with the design process.
- Managed the illustrator, with whom I've worked on several projects and collaborated to find solutions for the future style.
UI Designer
AdSpoiler
- Designed parts of a corporate website to present the technologies offered by AdSpoiler.
- Created entire web pages for AdSpoiler, which is a SaaS platform.
- Provided web page design mockups to developers and checked the conformity of developed pages with my designs.
Interface Designer
aMarketing Ukraine
- Designed landing pages for Ukrainian companies, my first project in the web design sphere.
- Communicated with clients directly, including interviews that I briefed and presented to stakeholders.
- Took steps to establish my first small design agency and managed several projects at the same time.
Education
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art History
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy - Kyiv, Ukraine
Certifications
Emotional Design — How to Make Products People Will Love
Interaction Design Foundation
Agile Methods for UX Design
Interaction Design Foundation
Design for a Better World with Don Norman
Interaction Design Foundation
Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design
Coursera
Web Design
MEAT Study
English
Regent School
English
Kaplan School
Skills
Tools
Miro, AI Tools, Principle, Airtable, Team Track, Adobe Illustrator, Rive
Platforms
Figma, Android, iOS
Industry Expertise
Sports, Real Estate, Health, Fitness, Exercise & Fitness, Investments, Social Networking, Games
Other
UX Design, UI Design, Interface Design, Wireframing, Design Systems, Dashboard Design, Mobile Design, Prototyping, Data Visualization, Product Design, App Design, Interaction Design (IxD), Mobile App Design, User Interface (UI), Web Application Design, Web App Design, Information Architecture (IA), UX Audits, User Experience (UX), Mobile UX, Rapid Prototyping, Business to Consumer (B2C), Software as a Service (SaaS), MVP Design, Responsive UI, Responsive Web Apps, Mobile App UI, Mobile Apps, Web App UI, Web App UX, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Dashboards, Web Design, Mobile UI Design, UX Prototyping, CRM Design, Mobile UI, User Journey Maps, User Journeys, Social Media Apps, Marketplaces, User Testing, Art Direction, Design Thinking, Fintech, Fintech Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Apple Human Interface, Human Interface Design, iOS App Design, Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS), Research, UX Research, Web Portals, UX Testing, Web UI, SaaS Design, Drama, UX Specifications, Adaptive Design, Commercial Real Estate, Maps, Property Management, Property Management System Integrations, Nutrition & Supplements, Coaching, Financial Design, Financial Systems, Web-based Interface, Money Transfers, Time Management, Project Tracking, CRM Systems, Teams, Task Management, Articles, Blog Design, Blog Posting, Social Networks, Game Development, Mood Board Design, User Flows, Interactive Prototypes, Websites, Brand Design, Web Page Mockups, Web UI Design, Landing Page Design, Client Interviews, Management, English, Communication, Adaptive, Illustration, Interactive UI, Residential Real Estate, UI Maps, Interactive Maps, Dynamic Websites, High-fidelity Mockups, Cross-platform, User Research, Usability, User Experience Design, User-centered Design (UCD), Human-centered Design (HCD), Incrementalism, Agile UX, Agile, Agile Sprints, Emotional Design, Emotional UX
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