Nick Vyhouski
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Montreal, QC, Canada
Toptal member since February 8, 2016
Nick is a senior UI/UX designer with ten years of professional experience specializing in designing applications for startups. Nick believes that design is not about deliverables and beautiful pixels but about solving problems and achieving business and user goals.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Senior Product Designer | Contract
Pendo
- Designed the first version of analytics for Digital Adoption Solutions.
- Worked on redesigning the core Data Explorer experience.
- Contributed to the design system: reviewed existing components, introduced new ones, and worked with teams on the implementation.
Senior Product Designer
Acies.ai
- Engaged with multiple stakeholders, including product managers, engineers, and other designers, to bring concepts to reality at every stage of development.
- Built a brand identity, including colors, typography, logos, and other assets.
- Delivered marketing materials, including site design, presentations, white papers, and case studies.
- Designed from scratch a complex enterprise business intelligence platform for the payment industry.
Product Designer
Mayven
- Collaborated closely with the leadership and the engineering teams on client projects and internal tools.
- Cooperated with other designers, engineers, and PMs to improve the internal platform and deliver new features.
- Designed user-friendly and mobile-first websites and applications using an end-to-end product design approach.
Co-founder | Product Designer
MeetnGreetMe
- Charged with all product design aspects, from gathering requirements and competitor research to running ideation workshops with the team, conducting design QA, and usability testing.
- Defined the overall concept and designed the overall experience of the two-sided marketplace.
- Constructed the overall visual direction of the platform.
- Designed the core elements of the critical platform components, such as onboarding, the inbox, and the notification system.
- Led team meetings and hired and managed fellow designers.
Lead UX Designer
eVote
- Designed all aspects of the multi-channel experience of eVote voting platform.
- Defined the core concept, designed core flows and interactions.
- Developed eVote's visual style across the web and mobile platforms.
- Designed iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android mobile applications.
- Created high-fidelity wireframes, screen flows, and specifications.
- Built creative concepts, sketches, diagrams, and storyboards for stakeholders and developers.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Strevus
- Constructed user experience of an entire platform.
- Worked directly with developers and testers to make design ideas happen in code.
- Crafted a new visual design for the Strevus applications.
- Defined UI/UX guidelines, a form wizard, and templates for converting IRS tax forms into a digital format.
Founder | Lead UX Designer
Five Heads
- Acted as head of a team of designers which was responsible for the overall branding concepts.
- Led and designed the product and strategy development.
- Gave and managed the art direction.
- Managed the communications with clients and customers.
- Designed the user interfaces for iOS and web applications.
Lead UX Designer
Appetite Soft
- Head-hunted, interviewed, hired, and trained the new designers.
- Gave art direction and provided competitive analysis.
- Developed the mobile apps interface design: wireframing, visual design, flow, and the interactive prototypes.
- Negotiated with clients and did requirements gathering.
UI/UX Designer
Freelance Work
- Worked with stakeholders to understand their customers and build business models for creating design solutions to further those goals.
- Defined the architecture, navigation, user flows and experiences, and information and interaction designs that effectively and directly solve customer needs.
- Produced creative concepts, sketches, diagrams, and storyboards for stakeholders and developers.
- Created design solutions that address business, brand, and user requirements.
- Collaborated with web developers to deliver the final product.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Media and Communication: Visual Culture
European Humanities University - Vilnius, Lithuania
Completed Credits Toward a Bachelor's Degree in Multimedia Design
Institute of Modern Knowledge - Minsk, Belarus
Completed Credits Toward a Bachelor's Degree in Marketing
Belarus State Economic University - Minsk, Belarus
Certifications
Design System Bootcamp
UI Prep
Design Thinking: The Ultimate Guide
Interaction Design Foundation
UX Analytics
Netology Group
Skills
Tools
Zeplin, Photoshop CC, Proto.io, Balsamiq Mockups, Basecamp, Adobe Photoshop, Flinto, Sketch, InVision, Balsamiq, Adobe Illustrator, Pencil & Paper, Adobe, GIS, TargetProcess, Jira, Adobe Experience Design (XD)
Platforms
iOS, Figma, Android, Ethereum, MacOS, Mobile
Industry Expertise
Travel & Leisure, Hospitality, Investments, Marketing, Banking & Finance, Real Estate, Healthcare
Languages
CSS, HTML
Other
MVP Design, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), User Flows, SaaS, UX Strategy, Agile, Dashboards, B2C, B2B, Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, SaaS Design, Visualization Design, Startups, Two-sided Marketplaces, Rapid Prototyping, Responsive, Responsive UI, Forms, Apps, Data Visualization, Dashboard Design, Workflow Diagrams, Web App Design, Landing Pages, Web App UX, UX Prototyping, Paper Prototyping, Web App UI, Intuitive UX Design, Platforms, User Interface (UI), Wireframing, Web Design, User Experience (UX), Information Architecture (IA), Prototyping, Sketching, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Information Design, Interactive Prototypes, Marketplace Design, Product Design, UX Design, UX Research, Usability Testing, UI Design, Marketplaces, Marketplace Platforms, Desktop Web Design, Design Systems, Visualization, Responsive Web Apps, High-fidelity Mockups, Visual Design, DataViz, Workflow, Design, UX Wireframes, Learning, Mockups, UI Components, Visual Concepts, Infographics, Best Practices in Design, UI Prototyping, Audits, UI Audits, Auditing, User Workflows, Complex Web Systems, Complex Application User Interfaces (UI), Software as a Service (SaaS), Web Dashboards, Mobile UX Design, Design Leadership, Style Guides, Reservation Flow, Travel, Responsive Email Templates, Data-informed Visual Design, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Platforms, Icon Design, Personas, User Journeys, Blockchain, Project Management, Mobile Design, UI Animation, iOS UI Design, Finance, Fintech, Big Data, Google Design Sprints, Data Flows, Branding, High-fidelity Prototypes, Low-fidelity Prototypes, Enterprise SaaS, Graphic Design, User Testing, App Design, User Research, User Stories, User Personas, Edtech Design, eCommerce, Mobile UI Design, Design Sprints, Progressive Web Applications (PWAs), Feature Prioritization, Product Roadmaps, UI Style Guides, Product Strategy, Mobile App Design, Non-fungible Tokens (NFT), Web Analytics, Data Analysis, Analytics, Discovery Workshops, Cryptocurrency Wallets, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Ideation, Mobile UX, Ideation Workshops, Lean, Pen & Paper, Whiteboarding, P2P, Platform Design, Landing Page Design, Email Template Design, Lean UX, Agile UX, Enterprise Design, Lean Startups, Web UX, Google Material Design, Data-heavy Design, Booking, Airbnb, UX Flows, B2B2C, WYSIWYG Web Builders, Wizards, Redesign, Form Design, Responsive Design, WebApp, Interaction Design (IxD), Design Thinking, Communication, Communities, Mobile UI, AI Design, New Media, Research, Writing & Editing, UX Analysis, Web Marketing, Economics, Competitive Analysis, Roadmaps, User Onboarding, Gamification, Workshops, Healthcare IT, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Experience
- Data Visualization - 10 years
- User Interface (UI) - 8 years
- Startups - 8 years
- User Experience (UX) - 7 years
- Dashboard Design - 7 years
- B2B - 5 years
- Two-sided Marketplaces - 5 years
- Prototyping - 5 years
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