Niels Flindt Koelmeyer, Designer in London, United Kingdom
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Niels Flindt Koelmeyer

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Location
London, United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since
October 8, 2021

Niels is an experienced product designer, leading end-to-end design projects across various industries and working with a wide range of companies, from startups to established corporations. He has strong UX foundations, effective process planning and execution, confidence in the entire development cycle, and advanced prototyping skills, including motion, handling user inputs, voice control, and building websites. He's certified by different institutions, including the Design Sprint Academy.

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Portfolio

Work Experience

Senior Product Designer (Contract)

2021 - PRESENT
Maido
  • Designed five landing pages as part of the client rollout into the UK market.
  • Completely redesigned customer journeys and interface for parcel locker interfaces across the EU and UK.
  • Led the mobile design efforts across key consumer-facing sites.
Technologies: Figma, ProtoPie, After Effects CC

Senior Product Designer

2020 - 2021
iTech
  • Helped design and launch +10 pages across three markets—US, Latin America, and EU.
  • Led several design discovery processes into a core user segment and validated concepts against them.
  • Designed and prototyped an interactive games schedule and bet calculator and tested against the identified customer group.
Technologies: Figma, ProtoPie, Adobe Analytics, Jira, Miro

Senior Product Designer

2018 - 2020
MyTutor
  • Implemented a new payment model and designed a new checkout flow that dramatically improved the customer retention rate.
  • Revamped an interactive whiteboard product based on extensive design discovery and problem framing.
  • Led a design project the resulted in an auto-matching feature that completely short-circuited problems for the business.
  • Redesigned MyTutor's design system from the ground up following a rebrand.
  • Ran +30 projects during my time at the company, contributing significantly to the company's success.
  • Designed, built, and launched MyTutor's first custom marketing page.
Technologies: InVision, Sketch, Framer, ProtoPie, Miro, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Hotjar

Freelance Product Designer

2018 - 2018
CrowdJustice
  • Designed and devised core user flows for the company's first lawyer-facing product. That product eventually turned into a company in its own right, Legl.
  • Designed a new marketing page, including developing a new visual language for the company.
  • Conducted extensive conceptual work around the pledge flow using interactive prototyping with Framer Classic.
Technologies: InVision, Zeplin, HTML, CSS, Sketch, Mailchimp

Product Designer

2017 - 2018
Zendesk
  • Led the design efforts to help launch an article import feature to the Zendesk Guide product.
  • Built an onboarding flow as part of a multi-product, multi-national design effort to onboard Zendesk bundle users to its full service.
  • Collaborated closely with the design systems team to help add interaction and motions to their design system.
  • Conducted extensive discovery work, including a full design sprint and user validation rounds behind an undisclosed feature.
Technologies: Sketch, InVision, Abstracts, Miro, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Dropbox, Framer Prototyping

Product Designer

2016 - 2017
Saxo.com
  • Designed an online text editor for the company's user group.
  • Designed and author-specific marketing platform for self-published authors.
  • Revamped the company's core publishing journey from the ground up.
Technologies: InVision, Framer Prototyping, Sketch
MAY 2021 - PRESENT

Webflow Certification Exam, Layout Level 1

Webflow

JANUARY 2021 - PRESENT

Problem Framing Training

Design Sprint Academy

AUGUST 2020 - PRESENT

JavaScript for Designers

SuperHi

APRIL 2020 - PRESENT

Foundational HTML, CSS + JavaScript

SuperHi

OCTOBER 2018 - PRESENT

Learn UI Course

Learn UI

SEPTEMBER 2016 - PRESENT

Design 101 Course

Design Lab

FEBRUARY 2016 - PRESENT

The Complete Product Management Course

Udemy

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