Nice Uysal
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Toptal member since February 21, 2022
Nice is a full-stack designer with 8+ years of experience conceptualizing engaging designs and bringing design solutions to a wide range of products with cross-functional teams. She delivers end-to-end design projects and excels in creating user-centered, data-driven solutions; designing aesthetically delightful user interfaces; ensuring usability best practices are implemented in products; and creating and testing high-fidelity wireframes and prototypes.
Work Experience
Product Designer
Spotify
- Worked as a product designer for the experimentation platform at Spotify. My mission was to introduce a designer's point of view to an engineering-based domain by arranging workshops and organizing research studies.
- Analyzed and presented the data gathered from the research.
- Created and facilitated design workshops with stakeholders, created high-fidelity wireframes, multiple concepts for design problems, prototypes for engineers, and user studies.
Mentor
Userspots Academy
- Prepared and conducted educational programs about UX and UI principles for organizations and individuals.
- Mentored and guided 200+ students over the course of three years.
- Planned and conducted audits for small organizations about their apps, websites, or products.
Senior Product Designer
The FACEIT
- Acted as a senior product designer at FACEIT—the leading competitive gaming platform for popular games like CS:GO, TF2, and Rocket League—arranging workshops and organizing research studies.
- Organized and conducted user interviews and analyzed and presented the data from research.
- Created high-fidelity wireframes and multiple concepts for the design problem.
- Organized and facilitated design workshops with stakeholders and helped create a data-driven product environment.
Product Designer
Twin Science & Robotics
- Increased the global retention rate by 100% within a few months.
- Designed and shipped five new features in one year based on data-driven decisions.
- Released a subscription plan to drive growth and achieved a trial-to-conversion rate of 45%.
- Ran A/B tests for new users and increased their activation rate by 50%.
- Created and helped to maintain a design library with 400+ elements.
UX/UI Designer
Userspots
- Created UI/UX designs for ten responsive web projects.
- Created UI/UX design for five native mobile applications.
- Won a #1 prize for the AXAFit app from the PSM Awards in the Innovative Customer Interaction and Experience category.
- Conceptualized and led design workshops with client teams to improve design outcomes.
Digital Art Director
Contentus
- Created 30 infographics in one year for international clients, which have had 20,000 visits.
- Conceptualized and drew custom illustrations for key brand visuals.
- Conducted the end-to-end design process for two complex eCommerce websites.
Digital Art Director
Rework Agency
- Conducted the end-to-end design process for two complex eCommerce websites.
- Built ten brand identity guidelines with complete coverage of typography and colors elements.
- Created social media visual concepts for 15 international clients.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Visual Design
Yildiz Technical University - Istanbul, Turkey
Certifications
UX Research
EF Standard English Test (EF SET) (94/100, C2 Proficient)
EF SET
Agile Foundations
Mobile User Experience
Interaction Design Foundation
User Experience (UX): The Ultimate Guide to Usability and UX
Udemy
Skills
Tools
Sketch, Figma, Zeplin, InVision, Adobe, Illustrator CC, Photoshop CC, iOS SDK, After Effects CC, Principle, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Apple Keynote, Miro, Looker
Platforms
Mobile, iOS, Android
Industry Expertise
Games, Life Insurance
Other
UI Principles, Web Design, App Design, Interaction Design (IxD), UX Design, UI Design, Visual Design, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, User Interface (UI), UI Components, User Experience (UX), Design Workshops, Web App UX, Web App UI, Wireframing, Product Design, User Flows, eCommerce UI, Prototyping, Mobile App Design, Mobile Design, Branding, Design Systems, Mockups, Style Guides, B2C, Mobile Apps, Competitive Analysis, Agile UX, High-fidelity Prototypes, Responsive Design, Rapid Interactive Prototyping, Interactive Prototypes, User Journeys, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web App Design, eCommerce, eCommerce Design, Landing Page Design, Holistic UX Design, Digital Project Management, Component Libraries, User Interviews, Design Thinking, Responsive Web Apps, Customer Journeys, Layout Design, MVP Design, Principal, UX Principles, Game Design, Web UX, App UX, Design Leadership, Lean UX, Design Specifications, User Workshops, B2B, SaaS, Data Visualization, Animation, Agile Project Management, Agile, English, UX Research, Journey Mapping, Customer Research, Usability, Personas, Mobile UI, User Research, Gambling, Sport Branding, Responsive UI, Web UI, Information Architecture (IA), Dark UIs, Desktop Web Design, Database Design, Sports Websites, Website Redesign, Applications, Mobile UX, iOS UI Design, iOS UX Design, Android UI Design, Women's Health, Digital Health, Health Insurance, Competitor Analysis & Profiling, Material UI, Material Design, Light UI, Web Applications, Responsive Layout, Sitemaps, Digital Strategy, Conceptual Design, eCommerce UX, eCommerce Web Design, Key Visuals, Web Usability, Digital Experience Design, Design Strategy, Websites, Brand Identity, Logo Design, Illustration, Qualitative Research, Toys & Children's Products, Social Games, Content, Dashboards, Tables, Science, Educational Games, Chemistry, Dashboard Design, Wellness, Exercise & Gyms, Google BigQuery, Discord, Storybook, UIKit, User Experience Design, SaaS Design, Native Mobile Apps, Smart Home Technology, Bluetooth
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