
Majo Balko
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Budapest, Hungary
Toptal member since October 12, 2015
Majo is an optimistic, life-curious multidisciplinary designer passionate about turning ideas into unique, human-centered digital products. He specializes in visual, product, and user-experience design. Majo also enjoys branding and identity development and has experience in photo and video production.
Portfolio
Work Experience
UX Lead
Rail Cargo Group
- Assisted in making the digitalization of the rail freight transport industry more user-friendly.
- Conducted user interviews and user research, including developing personas, user journey mapping, and more.
- Built and actively contributed to the design system of reusable components.
- Collaborated with project owners, business analysts, and front-end developers and participated in the Scrum development process.
Creative Freelance
Maioiam
- Worked on visual designs for the graphics and user interface.
- Designed specifically for a user-centered product using Lean MVP design, user experience data, and rapid prototyping.
- Oversaw branding and art direction of identity development.
- Worked in public relations and consulting, specifically in advertising and social media.
- Produced videos for advertising and documentaries, and music video clips.
Media Designer
MESO
- Collaborated on developing an exhibition for HERE Technologies at CES 2019 in Las Vegas, US. HERE Technologies is one of the leading players in the field of digital mapping and location data.
- Developed a consistent narrative applicable to all elements of the brand appearance. The systemic concept considered the entire visitor experience, including strategy, scenography, content development, interaction design, and visualization.
- Developed a recognizable and consistent overall design, including coherent narratives, media strategy, visualization, and a distinctive scenography that is modular, scalable, and applicable to various events, experience centers, and focus topics.
Founder | Product and User Experience Designer | Project Manager
Vita Infinita
- Implemented lean rapid prototyping.
- Contributed to the user experience design.
- Worked on the user interface design.
- Helped in advertising and promotion.
- Communicated via social media.
UI/UX Designer Intern
LogMeIn
- Redesigned email templates for the website join.me and a landing page. Made user experience improvements.
- Designed Chrome Web Store banners. Conducted user interviews.
- Designed a concept of a virtual presence tool for virtual teams.
Graphic Designer Intern
This is Pacifica
- Contributed to the development of corporate identities and created design manuals.
- Designed animations and motion graphics for brands.
- Aided and prepared advertising campaigns. Designed advertising materials for print and web.
Education
Master of Arts Degree in Media Design
MOME—Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design - Budapest, Hungary
Master of Fine Arts Degree in Digital Arts
Academy of Arts - Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Skills
Tools
Marvel, Adobe CC, Zeplin, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch, Adobe After Effects, InVision, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe InDesign, Marvel App, Avocode, Lookback, InVision App, Brackets, Affinity Designer, Miro
Languages
CSS, HTML, HTML5, CSS3
Platforms
Android, iOS, Mobile, Figma
Other
Lean UX, iOS UI Design, Web Design, Rapid Interactive Prototyping, Startups, Visual Identity, Visual Design, User-centered Design (UCD), Interactive Prototypes, Interaction Design (IxD), Conversion Rate, Unbounce, Branding, Identity, Identity Design, User Interface (UI), High-fidelity Prototypes, App Design, User Experience (UX), Wireframing, UX Design, CSS3 Animation
Experience
- Adobe CC - 12 years
- Visual Design - 5 years
- Branding - 4 years
- Sketch - 3 years
- Startups - 3 years
- User-centered Design (UCD) - 3 years
- Rapid Interactive Prototyping - 2 years
- iOS - 2 years
Tools
- Adobe CC
- Sketch
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