Olha Kot
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Toptal member since January 6, 2021
Olha is a Senior Product Designer with over 8 years of experience creating innovative, user-centered solutions. She specializes in UX design, prototyping, and enhancing product usability. Olha has a proven track record of improving workflows and driving measurable business results by crafting seamless user experiences. With a passion for problem-solving and design strategy, she brings hands-on expertise to every project, turning ideas into impactful, user-friendly solutions.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Senior Product Designer
Sensible Technologies Inc.
- Redesigned the navigation system of the app to improve user experience and increase engagement.
- Developed a design system that provided a unified visual language for the company's products and services. This helped to streamline the design process and ensure consistency across all company offerings.
- Built the AI component of Sensible, enabling users to efficiently extract data from documents.
- Built a self-service onboarding flow, enabling users to get started independently, reducing support requests and improving user adoption rates by 50%.
- Conducted extensive user testing, gathering actionable insights that informed key design decisions and improved product usability.
Product Design Lead
Freelance
- Took responsibility, as a founder designer, for the end-to-end product design process for a new web-based responsive platform.
- Built a design system from scratch and maintained it.
- Conducted countless user research and usability testing sessions.
- Translated design concepts into storyboards, user flows, and high-fidelity prototypes.
- Facilitated the remote design sprint workshop among others.
- Established, grow, and led a design team as a founder and designer.
- Designed the first major version of client, partner, and internal apps as the product design lead.
- Helped reduce transaction and operational costs by providing greater user experience and control through design.
UI/UX Product Designer
Backbase
- Designed complex, information-heavy products and interactions, including forms, data, and workflows.
- Collaborated with a UX researcher to validate design decisions by conducting user testing sessions and co-creation workshops.
- Created a design system based on material design guidelines.
- Solved complex functional and analytical problems while keeping the customer at the top of mind.
- Defined a product strategy in a new B2B value stream.
Product Designer
Hillebrand
- Designed a notifications system and a task management system that helped reduce the call volume in the call center.
- Assisted Hillebrand in building their product and user experience infrastructure on both web and mobile-based platforms.
- Used my interaction and research skills to communicate the value of UX research to stakeholders and to make UX research a key part of the design process.
- Applied my experience in design practices as a member of several project teams.
- Built a component-based design system that saved over 40% of the time spent on development and design.
- Created and designed multiple concepts for a product.
- Generated a 56% increase in the conversion rate of the onboarding process in four months.
UX/UI Designer
Jobbird
- Increased the number of pages per session by 60% by improving navigation and the home page.
- Played a key role in increasing the number of clicks on the “Apply” button on mobile by 50% and the number of users who applied via "Easy apply" by 45%.
- Created a style guide and design system for both the web and mobile platforms.
- Designed multiple user flows for B2B and B2C markets.
- Managed and coached junior user experience designers.
- Redesigned the entire product, thereby improving site navigation and conversion metrics.
UX/UI Designer
EPAM Systems
- Convinced users to switch from an old app they had used for years to the new one by giving them control over design changes, reducing the change to the smallest units possible, and showing users how they would benefit from the changes.
- Unified the application by creating the design system and style guide.
- Conducted a heuristic evaluation of the current system.
Education
Postgraduate Diploma in User Experience and Product Design
AGH University of Science and Technology - Kraków, Poland
Master's Degree in Professional Communication in IT Management
Clark University - Warsaw, Poland
Master's Degree in International Relations
National University of Ivan Franko - Lviv, Ukraine
Certifications
Figma Auto Layouts
Projector Institute
Remote Design Sprint Facilitator
A&J Smart
UX Data Mining and Google Analytics
Projector School
Smart Interface Design Patterns
Projector School
Measuring UX and ROI
NN Group
Skills
Tools
Sketch, Miro, InVision, Marvel, Figma, AI Tools, Google Analytics, Zeplin, Confluence, Hotjar, Jira
Platforms
Android, iOS
Industry Expertise
Human Resources (HR), Logistics, Shipping
Other
Product Design, User Experience (UX), Abstracts, Notion, User Journeys, User Personas, User Interface (UI), Enterprise Design, Wireframing, Mobile UX, eCommerce, App UX, Notification Center, Heuristic Evaluation, UX Prototyping, Digital Filters, Conceptual Design, MVP Design, Web App Design, UI Design, UX Design, Design Thinking, Web App UX, Web App UI, Responsive Web Design (RWD), B2B, User Testing, Complex Application User Interfaces (UI), User Research, Prototyping, Responsive Web Apps, Web Design, Rapid Prototyping, User Interviews, UX Flows, App Design, Enterprise, Supply Chain, Paper Prototyping, Workshop Facilitation, Facilitation, Freight, Web Forms, Form Design, Ideation Workshops, Concepting, Brainstorming, Innovation, UX Review, Onboarding, User Onboarding, Mentorship & Coaching, Usability Testing, Interface Design, Mentorship, UX Mentoring, Web UX Design, Data Visualization, Web Applications, Mobile Apps, Booking, Agile, Flow Diagrams, Content Management Systems (CMS), Strategy, Admin Panels, Web Platforms, UX Architecture, User Stories, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), User Validation, Workflow, Product Consultant, Consulting, Management Systems, Mobile UX Design, Mobile UI Design, Apps, UX Strategy, UX Research, UX Analysis, User Flows, Business Model Canvas, Communication, UX Pattern Design, Interaction Design (IxD), Remote User Testing, Information Architecture (IA), Google Design Sprints, Website CMS, Fintech, CRM Systems, Workshops, Material Design, Dashboard Design, Task Management, Messenger, Recruitment, Job Boards, Digital Campaigns, Remote Config, Banner Campaigns, Customer Engagement, Mobile Banking, Money Transfers, Appointment Booking, Native Mobile Apps, Web Search, Value Proposition Canvas, Personalization, Feature Prioritization, B2C, iOS App Design, Trade, Tracking, Activity Feeds, Scrum, Checkout, Startups, Design Systems, eCommerce UX, SaaS, UX Audits, Optimization, Design Consultation, Dashboards, Maps, Mobile App Design, User Workflows, Testing, Mobile UI, Mobile Design, Interactive Prototypes, Annotated Wireframes, Accessibility, Booking UX, Visual Design, Automation, CRM Design, Component Libraries, Design Sprints, UX Workshops, SaaS Design, Branding, Design Leadership, Product Benchmarking, Audience Targeting, Data Architecture, Cross-platform, UX Documentation, Management, Computer Informatics, International Affairs, Approval, Scheduling, Responsive UI, Cargo & Shipping, Drop Shipping, Message UI, Purchase Orders, Task Automation, Responsive UX Design, Email, UX Leadership, Workflow Automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs), Developer Portals
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