Konstantinos Anastasiou
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Konstantinos is a multidisciplinary product designer with years of experience as a member of digital agencies, startups, and freelance work. He has a proven record of solving problems by designing simple, meaningful, and sustainable solutions with beautiful designs. While Konstantinos has delivered a broad range of projects, his background has given him immense expertise in fintech, investment, and banking products.
Portfolio
Work Experience
UX/UI Designer
Freelance Designer
- Worked on many different products, from which the most successful ones in fintech and banking, are protected by NDAs.
- Designed a gym booking app attained number 39 on the App Store.
- Nominated Finalist in 2021 for Global UX Design Awards for TrainOSE Project.
- Worked on the project Accessible Friendly Fire Prevention Solution, which is already installed in multiple municipalities and assists in fire prevention.
- Designed blockchain event ticketing application that received sufficient funding.
Lead Designer
Exemplar Human Services, LLC
- Led creative discovery sessions to uncover and define business requirements, resulting in a comprehensive project roadmap for future product releases.
- Conducted a thorough UX audit and design review of the existing MVP, identifying key areas for improvement and presenting actionable suggestions.
- Designed and validated user flows and wireframes to enhance the application's usability, ensuring a seamless experience for users.
- Collaborated closely with the product manager to design and estimate user stories, contributing to efficient project management and scope definition.
- Produced high-fidelity designs ready for development, significantly speeding up the production process and ensuring a high-quality end product.
- Conducted a comprehensive analysis of user feedback, identifying pain points and outlining a proposal for improvement, which was instrumental in driving user experience enhancements.
- Successfully utilized Figma for rapid prototyping and user testing, resulting in quick iterations and improvements to the design.
- Showcased ability to adapt to industry-specific requirements by customizing the web application to align with the specific services provided by individual government agencies.
Growth Designer
Appex Group, Inc.
- Increased users' paid subscriptions by 86% by delivering a new paywall experience for the Lockdown Privacy and VPN app.
- Boosted the same app's adoption by 20% by bringing to life a new onboarding experience with meaningful animated instructions, giving value to its users and making the app stand out.
- Delivered vital features for Allstays Camp and RV that are budgeted to increase revenues from 500,000 users by utilizing feedback from user interviews and working closely with the product team to increase user satisfaction.
- Grew revenues from multiple touchpoints—such as the web and App Store—by slicing through the previous monetization flow and designing an omnichannel subscription funnel. Business and product teams were over the moon with the impact of the changes.
- Redesigned the Allstays Camp and RV app's user experience iteratively to provide advanced map interaction, like trip planning, working closely with the developer and product teams to deliver much-requested features for the users.
Fintech UI/UX Designer
EquitySet
- Conducted UX interviews with users and industry experts to discover stock researchers' pain points, needs, and motivations and provide the ideal experience. The results affected all design process steps and provided a more-suited outcome.
- Worked closely with stakeholders to coordinate workshops and use wireframes to speed up the process, aligning fast on the overall experience and chart interactions and onboarding developers early on.
- Formed a modular design with components responsive across devices to make the product scalable. I also developed an aesthetically pleasing color scheme, adaptable to light and dark themes.
- Supported the product team with my 20+ years of finance background, including selecting relevant information, deciding on the prioritization of information, and proposing a meaningful way to show this.
- Increased revenues by 98% by designing paywalls and SaaS strategies in collaboration with stakeholders. We included multiple levels of users accessing different levels of information, triggers, filters, and notification strategies for the app.
- Designed interactive charts and intuitive table interactions that support complex data sets and empower users to slash through and easily understand the information they seek.
- Rocked the project's finale with a mobile app experience that intuitively served a large amount of company, stock, index, or industry data to researchers on the go—setting the app apart from its competition.
UI/UX Designer
Steady Platform, Inc
- Designed the reporting, including the exported PDFs, for partner companies about Income Passport - Steady IQ.
- Streamlined Income Passport's mobile flow, improving the UX and dealing with edge cases on design.
- Improved the design system to include a more inclusive design approach.
Lead UI/UX Designer
Steady Platform, Inc
- Designed a payment system app for a fintech project that enables users to transfer money to individuals or cohorts. This web app allows features like creating groups based on CSV files, setting up planned payments, and managing users.
- Took part in numerous workshops in design discovery using a phased delivery approach on personas, information architecture, multiple user flows, wireframes, and UI design with a scalable design system.
- Supported the developers and product manager by bringing solutions to the table, as part of a cross-functional team.
Lead UI/UX Mobile App Designer
Hub Financial
- Researched the product's audiences and created personas, information architecture, and user flows, following human-centered design thinking.
- Designed all the wireframes and user flow for the mobile app to serve financial and insurance advisors on the go.
- Pushed the team further by proposing solutions for the benefit of the users. These proposals were included in the MVP, resulting in a USP for the app versus the competition.
Senior Product /UX/UI Designer
Netdata
- Designed anomalous detection events experience and user flow. Worked on visualization of charts and improvements on user experience based on HEART framework.
- Used research findings in personal user interviews; Gainsight and Smartlook improved the overall product navigation and overall usability.
- Designed a new dark theme layout. Also, I implemented accessibility—support for the inclusive design process and improved the iconography.
Senior UX Designer
ATCOM SA
- Worked on the UX design of the largest Greek investment mutual funds platform.
- Designed the UX of banking and mobile banking solutions for banks in Greece and Cyprus. Important tasks included KYC flow, digital onboarding, mobile loan applications. I conducted multiple user research sessions, conducted personas workshops, and more.
- Worked on the UX research and design of one of the most known Greek news portal. Tasks included UX research, information architecture, competition analysis, audience review, news consumption personas, user flows, and detailed wireframes at the component level.
- Did UX research for eCommerce sites including usability audit reports, improvements on information architecture, usability enhancements on search site interactions, check-out processes, and payments.
Brand Manager | Senior RM | Area Manager
Eurobank
- Coached and managed a multi-level team of financial advisors and multiple bank branches.
- Negotiated daily with clients, commercial success in investment, and loans compliance targets.
- Made an impact on multiple persons in my team; many of them evolved and achieved management positions.
Marketing Product Manager
Milennum BCP (Greece)
- Worked on multiple banking products that achieved commercial success in Greece.
- Acted as a supervisor of implementing bancassurance transactions and contracts in banking CRM.
- Served as a part of the bank's Risk Assessment Committee - Basel guidelines.
Education
Master of Arts in Design in Arts and Design
Middlesex University - Middlesex, UK
Executive MBA - with Distinction in Organizational Psychology
Hellenic American University - Manchester, New Hampshire - Athens Greece
Master's Degree with Distinction and Scholarship in Business Administration
Kingston University - London
Diploma in Management Studies in Management Studies
Kingston University - Kingston
Developer in Multimedia Applications in Multimedia
Vocational Training - Thessaloniki, Greece
Certifications
Accessibility: How to Design for All (IDF)
Interaction Design Foundation
Mobile User Experience (UX) Design (IDF)
Interaction Design Foundation
UI Design Patterns for Successful Software (IDF)
Interaction Design Foundation
Human Computer Interaction - HCI
Interaction Design Foundation
Graphic Design Specialization
Coursera
User Interface Design Specialization
Coursera
Skills
Tools
Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, Confluence, Apple Keynote, Google Sheets, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Marvel App, Adobe Flash
Platforms
Mobile, Dovetail, Apple, Mapbox, iOS
Industry Expertise
Marketing, Fitness, Life Insurance, Healthcare, Insurance
Other
UX Design, UI Design, UX Research, App UX, UX Branding, Interaction Design (IxD), User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Mobile UX, Digital Tickets, Blockchain, Web Platforms, Progressive Web Applications (PWA), Prototyping, User Testing, Information Design, Information Architecture (IA), User Interviews, App UI, Web UI, User Flows, Charts, Charting, UX Workshops, Investment Banking, Mutual Funds, Web App UI, Fintech, Online Banking, Management, Investment UX, Mobile UX Design, UX Prototyping, UI Prototyping, Mapping, Product Design, Mobile Design, Mobile App Design, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), SaaS, Graphic Design, Typography, Online Ticketing, Platforms, Cartography, Accessibility, Weather, Interviewing, Investing, Leadership, Design Leadership, Web UI Design, Web UX Design, Websites, Gainsight, Google Cloud Datastore, Heatmaps, Business Analysis, Research, Psychology, Communication, Human Factors, Dashboarding Tools, Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Mobile UI, Web Accessibility, Accessible Design, Analytics, Optimal Workshop, Ticketing, Event Design, WebApp, Card Sorting, Questionnaires, Remote User Testing, Personas, UX Review, User Research, Interactive UX, Interactive UI, UX Wireflows, Annotated Wireframes, Workshops, User Personas, Compliance, Time Management, B2C Marketing, Web Development, Health IT, SaaS Design, Software as a Service (SaaS), Exercise & Gyms, Booking UX, Booking, UX Flows, Training, Dashboards, Web Dashboards, Landing Pages, iOS UI Design, iOS UX Design, Subscriptions, iPad, Calendar Design, Onboarding, User Onboarding, Finance, Financial UX, Mobile App UI, Event Calendars, Event Ticketing, Ticket Design, Mobile Ticketing, Blockchain Platforms, Landing Page Design, Event Kit, Eventbrite, Checkout, Travel Design, Ticket Systems, Railway, Maps, UI Maps, Fire Prevention Mobile, Tags, Messaging, Instant Messaging, Blogs, Competition Research, Emergency & Urgent Care, Full Waveform Inversion (FWI), News, Newsfeeds, Web App UX, Web App Design, Health Insurance, Insurance Processing, Underwriting, List View, Public Health, Digital Health, Health Policy, Insurance APIs, Medical Imaging, Healthcare Services, Dashboard Design, SAP CRM, Desktop App Design, Mobile Mapping, Wireframing, Design Systems, Mobile GPS, Online Payments, User Stories, DataViz, Data Visualization, Apps, Storyboarding, Payment APIs, Payment Gateways, Tables, Mobile Apps, Monetization, Growth, Growth Strategy, App Growth, Usability, Usability Analysis, Usability Testing, Mobile UI Design, Data, Sass, Dark UIs, Dark Design, Light UI, Complex Web Systems, Complex Problem Solving, UX Wireframes, UX Audits, Rapid Prototyping
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