Niklas Quitzau
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Copenhagen, Denmark
Toptal member since August 28, 2019
Along with a master’s degree in IT from the Copenhagen Business School, Niklas has several years of hands-on experience in UI and UX. He specializes in mobile apps, high-quality visual design, and scalable design systems. His past clients include NATO's Anders Fogh Rasmussen through his own agency to the leading sports-tracking company, TrackMan.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Lead UX Designer
Saxo Bank
- Worked as a design lead for Saxo Bank’s institutional platforms for partner banks and other partner institutions.
- Managed a team of designers, providing guidance and support to ensure high-quality output and efficient workflows.
- Established and optimized internal processes to increase productivity and overall team effectiveness as well as stakeholder collaboration.
- Conducted design audits of multiple platforms, resulting in actionable roadmaps for improvements.
- Contributed to and worked closely with the lead UI designer and UI engineers on Saxo Bank's design system.
Lead Product Designer
Trackman
- Designed golf-tracking software for both professional golfers and pro-golf clients, including the design of both the native iOS apps and Windows apps.
- Built, maintained, and developed multiple design systems and UI kits.
- Managed stakeholder involvement and management during all phases of projects.
- Collaborated closely with developers throughout product development.
- Served as the lead designer on consumer and pro golf applications in a team of three designers.
- Created user stories and facilitated backlog groomings with POs and engineers.
- Drove the process of migrating design systems and UI kits, as well as production processes to Figma from Sketch.
- Conducted design reviews and feedback sessions with fellow product designers.
- Appointed interim head of UI/UX and, subsequently, design lead, participating in team and product strategies.
UX/UI Designer — Trading Platforms
Saxo Bank
- Designed a trading platform built in React for non-professional investors, including a web platform and iOS and Android apps.
- Contributed to concept development, translating business objectives to tangible concepts.
- Designed and tested interactive prototypes in both Figma and ProtoPie.
- Spearheaded the development of design system management in Figma, including creating components based on existing React components and vice versa.
- Managed stakeholder involvement during all phases of projects.
- Collaborated with developers, including hand-off, testing, and QA.
UX/UI Designer
Bright
- Identified and translated client problems, goals, and objectives into technical specifications and ready-to-implement solutions and project plans.
- Facilitated strategy workshops for identifying business problems and ensured stakeholder alignment.
- Planned and executed live UX workshops in order to identify and establish user flows, information architecture, and technical requirements as well as developed prototypes in co-creational and sprint-like processes with clients.
- Worked on UX, UI design, and interaction design.
- Communicated solutions using rapid interactive prototyping.
- Collaborated with external front-end and back-end developers.
- Developed the front end.
- Managed projects with agile processes.
UX/UI Designer
Iconic CPH
- Designed both the UX and UI on several projects.
- Communicated solutions through both low- and high-fidelity prototyping.
- Converted designs to functional code through front-end development.
- Managed and facilitated workshops as well as project management to oversee production processes.
- Helped clients define business problems, goals, and objectives.
Web Designer
Quitzau & Co
- Created UX/UI designs.
- Built prototypes.
- Developed the front end.
- Configured and customized WordPress and other CMS systems.
- Improved clients' existing websites and web apps in terms of UX, UI, performance, and additional features.
Education
Master of Science (MSc) Degree in Business Administration and Information Systems (E-business)
Copenhagen Business School - Copenhagen, Denmark
Bachelor's Degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Copenhagen Business Academy - Lyngby, Denmark
Academic Profession (AP) Degree in Multimedia Design
Copenhagen School of Design and Technology - Copenhagen, Denmark
Skills
Tools
Sketch, InVision, ProtoPie, Marvel, Zeplin, Adobe After Effects, Flinto, Trello, Slack, Adobe InDesign, Git, Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects CC, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Principle, Confluence
Platforms
Figma, iOS, MacOS, Microsoft, GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP), WordPress
Languages
HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Other
Web UI, User Interface (UI), Mobile App UI, UI Design, Mobile UI Design, Web UI Design, Product Design, Design Systems, Atomic Design, Data Visualization, User Experience (UX), UX Design, Discovery, Overflow, Lottie, Teams, Bootstrap, UX Research, Responsive Design, Prototyping, Workshop Facilitation, GSAP, Wireframing, Information Architecture (IA), Web UX, Responsive, Motion & Animation Design, Web App UI, Web App UX, React, Redesign, iOS App Design, Mobile UX, iOS Camera, App UI, Iconography, App UX, iPad, Animation, Branding, Interaction Design (IxD), Azure DevOps, Storybook
Experience
- Product Design - 9 years
- User Interface (UI) - 9 years
- Mobile App UI - 7 years
- UX Design - 7 years
- User Experience (UX) - 7 years
- Prototyping - 6 years
- Design Systems - 4 years
- Figma - 3 years
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